JDKFLY

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I'm going to start a F-105 project and was searching for a accurate CAD model to drive a CNC milling machine to fab a plug. I have checked some of the models available for sale but they all seen a little off scale. Anyone know of a good source or willing to develop a model. I'm curious if there is any 3D scanning services that can use a plastic model.

allanflowers

I might be interested in helping with some CAD work. What do you have in terms of drawings, sections, etc? How big a model are you going to do? Where can I access the models you have seen that fall short? Do you have your own CNC milling capability? What kind of timeline are you looking at?
If all looks good, maybe we can strike some kind of arrangement.

wendell5555

Please check my site at www.3dpointcloud.com and www.aeronautica3d.com.

Costs would be the deciding factor as I think I can find that aircraft somewhere.

Wendell

allanflowers

Something tells me that the original poster in this thread is not serious about this project, having completely disappeared after a single message. If he really wanted help, he would have responded long ago. Now, frankly, I would have no interest in helping him in an difficult project involving a lot of work and skill, resulting in - at most - a copy of the resultant fuselage part.

SoCal GliderGuider

He ate tacos at Taco Bell.

BMatthews

It's only been a week. He may be away on a business trip or, heaven forbid, doing something family related since it's close to the holidays....

Frankly if I was looking to do something like this I'd be very leery of trusting a little plastic model regardless of origin. At the very least I'd want to compare the selected plastic model to a real one with hours worth of measuring if I was looking for the sort of accuracy that JDKFLY is suggesting.

JDKFLY

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Sorry Allanflowers I understand how you felt that way, I had to travel unexpectedly but to answer your questions from the original post, I do have some drawings from the Russian web site and "accurate in Scale" book, these appear fairly good but not to many cross sections. The 3D CAD model I found was at the Turbo Squid web site, so far I have not been able to find any other model of the 105, I was hoping that someone may know of a better resourse. I do have a contact that has a large CNC and has done foam plugs for models, so having a accurate 3D model is attractive from a workload point of view. I have scratch built jet models before (my last one was a 1/6 scale F-104 that competed in Top Gun 05) but the laborious method of creating fuse station templates and foam in between is a big effort.
BMattews thanks for covering for me, you are correct that plastic models can be off and should be verified by measuring the real aircraft. I have done this on the several projects and have found that some of the higher quality kits like Hasegawa or Tamiya are pretty accurate.