RCU Forums - View Single Post - LOCKHEED P-38J “LIGHTNING”. A giant 1/4 scale scratch built model
Old 09-10-2018, 08:28 AM
  #47  
fbielsa
 
fbielsa's Avatar
 
Join Date: Oct 2012
Location: ZARAGOZA, SPAIN
Posts: 97
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes on 0 Posts
Default

Finally, after a perfect sanding to round the joints of the sheeting staves, the landing doors are manufactured in fiberglass reinforced with carbon strips, in the same way that I described on the occasion of the nacelle landing door.

Since both fuselages are identical in this area, fortunately it is only necessary to obtain a mold. Finally, the hollows of the doors in the fuselage are cut with a scalpel blade and the pieces obtained in fiber are adapted, which are hinged, in my case, with hinges made with fiber printed circuit. Do not forget to make the double interior balsa wall.

I regret not having photographs of the landing doors in this phase, although you will see them in later descriptions.