Project BF-109 E 4 1/5
10-18-2007, 10:37 AM
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RE: Project BF-109 E 4 1/5
Hi Fast Richard
Yes of course I make it in this way ,but then won't be so realistic the rivets and metal panels going to look too perfect and far from real ones.
Like this
Yes of course I make it in this way ,but then won't be so realistic the rivets and metal panels going to look too perfect and far from real ones.
Like this
10-18-2007, 11:19 AM
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RE: Project BF-109 E 4 1/5
Yes Evil, аll panels and rivets are exactly like the real airplane ,I have many fotos ,books and material for this plane 
I love it
I love it
10-19-2007, 12:04 AM
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RE: Project BF-109 E 4 1/5
You are just like me in that regards, I must have 50 books on the Bf109 and about 150 on the FW 190. Can't read enough about either.
I'm looking forward to seeing your first pulls out of the moulds!
It inspires me to do better with my builds!
I'm looking forward to seeing your first pulls out of the moulds!
It inspires me to do better with my builds!
10-20-2007, 07:49 AM
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RE: Project BF-109 E 4 1/5
Gratulations, Rumen!!!
im sure you will love your first fuse!!! i know how you feel there!! been there, done that!
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cheers
jukka
im sure you will love your first fuse!!! i know how you feel there!! been there, done that!
[sm=thumbup.gif][sm=thumbup.gif][sm=thumbup.gif]
cheers
jukka
10-21-2007, 11:36 AM
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RE: Project BF-109 E 4 1/5
Hi!
I asked you about aprice for a Spitfire kit some weeks ago but the price is too much at the moment (also I have two Brian Taylor 1/5 spitfires Mk1 and Mk 19 to complete first) . But I would relly like to know what brand of molding epoxy you have used (The black metal filled surface epoxy).
The molds I have made myself (props for pylonracing a engine cowls )have all been rather small and the problem I have encountered is that the black metaled filled surface epoxy has been very hard to brush out before it hardens. I have used hot air guns to soften the epoxy, but for larger moldings like your 1/4 scale Spitfire this metod doesn't seem to be a good idea. Any comments?
I asked you about aprice for a Spitfire kit some weeks ago but the price is too much at the moment (also I have two Brian Taylor 1/5 spitfires Mk1 and Mk 19 to complete first) . But I would relly like to know what brand of molding epoxy you have used (The black metal filled surface epoxy).
The molds I have made myself (props for pylonracing a engine cowls )have all been rather small and the problem I have encountered is that the black metaled filled surface epoxy has been very hard to brush out before it hardens. I have used hot air guns to soften the epoxy, but for larger moldings like your 1/4 scale Spitfire this metod doesn't seem to be a good idea. Any comments?
10-21-2007, 12:00 PM
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RE: Project BF-109 E 4 1/5
Jan K .......... My friend
This is NOT Spitfire ...............
THIS IS BF -109 E4 .......... AND I DON'T KNOW THE PRICE YET OF MY PLANE [8D]
YOU HAVE A MISTAKE
""""""""Gratulations, Rumen!!!
im sure you will love your first fuse!!! i know how you feel there!! been there, done that!
cheers
jukka """""""
Yes Jukka,I am very hapy about my mould , tomorrow I'll make the first fuse ,will see
This is NOT Spitfire ...............
THIS IS BF -109 E4 .......... AND I DON'T KNOW THE PRICE YET OF MY PLANE [8D]
YOU HAVE A MISTAKE
""""""""Gratulations, Rumen!!!
im sure you will love your first fuse!!! i know how you feel there!! been there, done that!
cheers
jukka """""""
Yes Jukka,I am very hapy about my mould , tomorrow I'll make the first fuse ,will see
10-23-2007, 02:34 PM
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RE: Project BF-109 E 4 1/5
Great job fokke! My compliments! It should be a great satisfaction to open the mold and extract such a beauty... keep up the good work.
I'm following this thread with great interest
ciao
Pierluigi
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I'm following this thread with great interest
ciao
Pierluigi
Italy
10-23-2007, 03:44 PM
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Fokke. EXCELLENT!
The first pull looks fantastic!
How many internal formers will you be using?
Are you going built up wing or foam core wing?
Thank you for posting those wrinkled skins of the P-47. I was going to post the ones I have of a Bf109E that shows just about everything rear of the cockpit looking like a finger thats been in the water too long.
Folks that say they are not wrinkled have never been around a real plane before.
The first pull looks fantastic!
How many internal formers will you be using?
Are you going built up wing or foam core wing?
Thank you for posting those wrinkled skins of the P-47. I was going to post the ones I have of a Bf109E that shows just about everything rear of the cockpit looking like a finger thats been in the water too long.
Folks that say they are not wrinkled have never been around a real plane before.
10-23-2007, 03:51 PM
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You need to get around some real airplanes more. The skins, especially from the pre 1970's are a wrinkled mess.
Take a walk thru the UASM and see for youself.
if these images are not enough, I will be more than happy to post many many more showing wrinkled skins that are the norm for regular use aircraft.
Take a walk thru the UASM and see for youself.
if these images are not enough, I will be more than happy to post many many more showing wrinkled skins that are the norm for regular use aircraft.
10-23-2007, 04:26 PM
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RE: Project BF-109 E 4 1/5
Hohohohohohhhoo
Thanks for your help Evil , nice pictures
this is my realistik skin ,I must to clean the аll fuse after mould .
I'll use 4 formers and 3 horizontal plates,this will be and for wheels in fuse .
Wing will be full composite too. First I'm going to build styro wing, then make mold and then make fiberglass wing out of it. Just like the fuse.
Thanks for your help Evil , nice pictures
this is my realistik skin ,I must to clean the аll fuse after mould .
I'll use 4 formers and 3 horizontal plates,this will be and for wheels in fuse .
Wing will be full composite too. First I'm going to build styro wing, then make mold and then make fiberglass wing out of it. Just like the fuse.
10-23-2007, 05:48 PM
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RE: Project BF-109 E 4 1/5
Yeah baby....that's awesome Fokke. Great job man. Please lmk details as you go forward on shipping the fuse(s) to the US....I think I'll have to be in for one of those...too good. First guy down the pipe w/ a 1/5 Emil w/ potential to kit...hats off to you.
10-23-2007, 06:40 PM
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Thank you for posting those wrinkled skins of the P-47. I was going to post the ones I have of a Bf109E that shows just about everything rear of the cockpit looking like a finger thats been in the water too long.
Folks that say they are not wrinkled have never been around a real plane before.
Folks that say they are not wrinkled have never been around a real plane before.
You need to get around some real airplanes more. The skins, especially from the pre 1970's are a wrinkled mess.
Take a walk thru the UASM and see for youself.
if these images are not enough, I will be more than happy to post many many more showing wrinkled skins that are the norm for regular use aircraft.
Take a walk thru the UASM and see for youself.
if these images are not enough, I will be more than happy to post many many more showing wrinkled skins that are the norm for regular use aircraft.
I think that people get used to seeing Restored planes that have been restored to perfection even better than when they rolled off the assembly line.
A lot of people dont realize that Warbirds are what the name implies birds made for war. They are not perfect they are dinged, dented, patched, repaired,
dripping oil and fuel. They were made to be put through hell not look pretty in a museum. My best friend works on the flight line in the USMC and I have been
all over the F-18 super hornets and even though they are the newest generation jets even they are far from perfect, and most of them have 40 gallon pans
under them to catch all the hydralic oil leaking from them. As my buddy says if its not leaking I wouldn't fly it.
By the way Fokke I know you have heard it enough but great job I would love to get my hands one of your birds any day. The detail is incredible.
10-23-2007, 07:50 PM
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RE: Project BF-109 E 4 1/5
Gratulations Rumen!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
im so happy for you!! she is looking very nice!!! [sm=thumbup.gif][sm=thumbup.gif][sm=thumbup.gif]
ask all those nice ladies to visit to see her, and share the champagne whit them!!
now you are moldmaster!! i keep my eye tightly on this thread!
cheers
Jukka
im so happy for you!! she is looking very nice!!! [sm=thumbup.gif][sm=thumbup.gif][sm=thumbup.gif]
ask all those nice ladies to visit to see her, and share the champagne whit them!!
now you are moldmaster!! i keep my eye tightly on this thread!
cheers
Jukka
10-24-2007, 01:36 AM
#124
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Thank you soo much Jukka ,yes I am very hapy ,because a work on this mould (fuse ) 10 months 
This is new pics with fokus, light and canopy
dvs1
Еxactly,see this pictures .....this is single plane on the world,this plane now is in Bulgaria ,museum in city of Plovdiv
See the fuse and wings and thall me this is fighting machine is it ??
This is Arado-196-A3
This is new pics with fokus, light and canopy
dvs1
Еxactly,see this pictures .....this is single plane on the world,this plane now is in Bulgaria ,museum in city of Plovdiv
See the fuse and wings and thall me this is fighting machine is it ??
This is Arado-196-A3
10-24-2007, 07:24 AM
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ORIGINAL: fokke
Hohohohohohhhoo
Thanks for your help Evil , nice pictures
this is my realistik skin ,I must to clean the аll fuse after mould .
I'll use 4 formers and 3 horizontal plates,this will be and for wheels in fuse .
Wing will be full composite too. First I'm going to build styro wing, then make mold and then make fiberglass wing out of it. Just like the fuse.
Hohohohohohhhoo
Thanks for your help Evil , nice pictures
this is my realistik skin ,I must to clean the аll fuse after mould .
I'll use 4 formers and 3 horizontal plates,this will be and for wheels in fuse .
Wing will be full composite too. First I'm going to build styro wing, then make mold and then make fiberglass wing out of it. Just like the fuse.
Can't wait to see what the wings look like!