As you can see there is no crisis in my modeling Combine...
Joking aside, two of the three hellcat are from my friend Dule. He bought from me, a few years ago, a Hellcat kit with plastic fuselage, which I bring from Top Gun at 2008, and last year and my model that I flew and described in this topic.
Now I made my second Ziroli's Hellcat (that all wooden kit), and this time I try to avoid all errors I made on my first Hellcat model.
I did not write about all the details so I made another kit, I'll just say that I am very mindful of the weight, which was a problem in the first Hellcat.
For the new Hellcat, I intended Zenoah GT 80, with the scale exhausts.
Scale exhaust system I was making my friend Sasa from Å*abac.
On the water jet machine, I cut the exhaust flange and from the German firm Krumscheida I reached the pipes.
My idea is to create a semi open exhaust, which will be located in the same place on the fuselage, as it was on the right Hellcat.
Here is a few photos of the exhaust system...
Than same job on the right side...
After that we made a hole on the scale exhaust...
...fine tuning...
...and weld pipe on it...
Same procedure on the other side...
...and here is a result...
On those photos fuselage is up side down, so we made little holes and weld thin pipes for draining exhaust oil...
Finally, we add teflon tube which are connect parts of the exhaust system...
How will this exhaust work, we'll see...
Regards
Mirce