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Old 04-18-2016, 09:32 AM
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The fibreglass tube in the wings was too tight. It was necessary to sand the inner space.
Finally I decided to put elevatorīs servos into the stabilizer, so I bought two Hitec HS 225 MG
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Old 04-19-2016, 09:20 AM
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Gear bays I make from piece of hard paper.
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Old 04-20-2016, 02:50 AM
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Are you going to fiber glass the wheel well?
and by the way she is really looking great well done.
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No, Iīm not Francis, only paint it. I think it would be useless to glass the bay.
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First shots of my Seagull Spitfire with JP cowl, for now in the silver covering and without the chin scoop and exhausts. The paint is coming soon.
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Old 04-22-2016, 09:12 AM
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Today Iīve done the detailing of the fuselage. During next days I want to add the resin exhaust stubs to the cowl.
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Old 04-23-2016, 09:36 AM
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Cockpit is finally done. For painting I used acrylic Tamiya paints. Base of cockpit painting is preshading, last layer is the cockpit green. I glued all cockpit details and fit the panels to fuselage. Then I glued the instrument panel and gunsight. Here you can see the result.
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Old 04-26-2016, 04:15 AM
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Your Spitty is really coming together nicely, a great build thread you have showed us all here. Funny how we start off with a standard build with just a few mods so we have a new plane to fly, and then we just start making it better and adding more as the build progress's along. Great work thanks for sharing the build..��
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Thank you for the kind word G T. I think thatīs good, we can share our threads. Because our projects could be an inspiration for the others. But the important is, I donīt know everything, so the other guys can give some solution or their opinion when I have any problem during the build.
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New wheels for my Spitfire. Now the are at the aribase in Afghanistan, so I will have them in my hand during July.
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Old 04-29-2016, 11:29 AM
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Distance nuts for tail wheel strut are done. Now I can add and connect the control lines.
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Old 04-30-2016, 07:43 AM
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In the following shots is visible how work my distance nuts. In each of them I drilled holes and threads for the locking screws. In the bigger one I also drilled holes for the arms.
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Old 05-01-2016, 10:06 AM
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Tail wheel strut is done. You can compare which one is better. The mine has a half weight of the Seagullīs one.
During fitting the cowl I found a 5 mm space between the fuselage and the cowl. It will be good for flow rate.
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Old 05-02-2016, 08:46 AM
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All Spitfire models have one common problem- cooling of the engine. There are no much places where we can make holes for air intake. Do you know what is the ejection effect? This effect use small airbrushes. During flight the holes behind the engine will create this ejection effect, it takes out some hot air from the engine area.
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Old 05-03-2016, 10:00 AM
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Some last days I engaged with scale pilot painting. The head Iīve partly done. I canīt sleep because of my nightmare- pilotīs glasses. This next task is closer and closer.
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Old 05-03-2016, 11:30 AM
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Here are shots as a result of my seeking of the glasses detail.
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Small progress on pilotīs head. Iīve done the leather helmet. Now Iīm going to play with glasses and earphones.
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Old 05-06-2016, 10:43 AM
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Here is my exhaust set in the cowl. For the comparison some shots of the real exhausts.
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The tail is finally done.
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Old 05-11-2016, 08:14 AM
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Today I received new struts.
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I had some remainder of epoxy, so I put one layer of epoxy into gear bays. The exhaust slats are done, so Iīm going to paint them.
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Cowl and chin scoop set. In the bottom part of cowl I cut of part of the cowl as a doors for engine. There is not many space to attach the cowl on the engine with the spark cylinder.
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Old 05-15-2016, 11:18 AM
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Here is result of my last day. Pilot is almost done. The battle dress is not completed, because the blue paint is very bright and light.
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Body and head are done. Now will paint legs.
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Old 05-18-2016, 09:14 AM
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Here is the composite cannon blister on the Seagullīs Spitifre wing.
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