ORIGINAL: Ram-bro
Diony, the ws is a smallish 60"ws. It is teh WING Hellcat. The cmps could b e great lookinghellcats with the addition of the parts you are selling. You should also add a more scale canopy to your parts bin. I made the drop tank from blue foam. Glassed and painted. The plane will either fly on a rcv 90 or os 90. paint is model masters airbrushed on
I like how your Hellcat is coming along, want to see those finished pics with the tape off. I was thinking of using Model Masters, not sure yet but yours looks great. Great job on the drop tank also, nice touch! I am very interested to see what these guys do with the extras I sent them, hope to see pictures.
Man, you guys buried me this weekend! Thanks for the support, I really hope you all enjoy the parts. I'm sending them out this morning priority. Got ya Dom, your parts are on the way!
Graig, go to my website, click on the products tab and select what you need.
Dion I placed my order and paid pay pay , I expect you to stop everything , make mine special , add rivits , a pilot, new canopy , set of Hellact plans with suger on top !!!! . Dion keep up the great work , I am printing your buiuld for my own manual .
LOL! Yea LDM! I wouldn't do it any other way, you know that! A manual, good idea, stay tuned for the finishing prtion of the build, going to save some real weight there!
Everyone that bought my stuff can have all the drawings for free that I make for this plane, like the hinges and tail wheel plans I'm drawing. Just shoot me an email with a request for the drawings that you need.
I was going to show more on the drop tank, but I've had some questions about the aileron hinges so I'll post more detailed pictures of those for the guys that may want to do them, very easy and I recommend them. VERY slick![8D]
Using the drawings mark the hinge pivot point on the aileron itself. (At this point the aileron is not shaped and it is tack glued to the wing with 3 small spots of medium CA to hold it in place.) Then cut out 3 pieces of light ply with a pivot hole drilled at the proper height. Using a piece of wire as a guide align the ply pieces on the hinge line and tack glue them with medium CA. Mark the location of smaller aileron hinge pieces and using a Dremel with a small router bit cut those slots out. Pull the wire out and install on the smaller hinge pieces holding them in alignment with the wire. Glue them in with Medium CA making sure to get plenty of glue in the glue holes you drilled. I fill any voids with Micro-Balloons and thin CA.
Next Pull the wire out and assemble the hinges. Using the bigger wing mounted side of the hinge as a guide to Dremel out the holes on the wing side. Make sure that you installed blocks in the wing for these things to mount to! I marked the hinges on the side so I knew how far they had to be buried in the wing and aileron. Just scribe the parts with a hobby knife, works good. Glue those in the same way as the other hinge parts. Take the bolts out and pop the aileron off and then shape it as shown on the drawings.
Dion