B25 Construction 1/8 Scale

[dm73]

Andy, just read through your P47 build, totally awesome, i was glued to the screen for a couple of hours gobsmacked, i'm dead envious of the workshop and tools, showed my girlfriend and all she did was tut at the cold undrunk cups of tea she made while i read your thread. Keep up the good work, can't wait to see how this one looks when finished

Darren

 

[Sky Raider]

Hi Darren,

Thanks bud, im glad your enjoyed the thread, shame the girlfreind made you all those cold cups of tea, i beat she wasnt impressed at all. im realy aching to get started on the 1/4 scale SE5a, cant wait to get this one finished. Wont be too long now. the riviting is almost complete...just the final painting and then the weathering to do after that.

Cheers

Andy

 

[Sky Raider]

Here we go guys. The tapes are applied in two layers to obtain the effect of panel thicknes. You will see tweo types of panels, but joint and overlapping in progress.

Cheers

Andy

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[yak face]

Hi andy mate, this is really motoring on now , looking mighty fine too . I really like your purpose built adjustable trestles made from push fit waste pipe- genius!! I know where to come now if my sink trap starts leaking !!! keep it up , cheers tony:plane:

 

[Sky Raider]

Hi Tony,

Thanks bud, the working platform realy is a great thing... it also dismantles to nothing and is very adaptable. Well i just put on the last of the rivits and will soon be ready for some more paint.

Thanks again

Andy

 

[Sky Raider]

Hi, Me again,

Here is the updated results of the panel lines outcome. We bigger scale builders dont have the advantage of having all this detail done already so the true large scale builder has to create his own. You will see some pics that are pre rivit lines and some that have the rivit lines in red for ease of identification. I've done a count up on this one, it was started mid August last year and it has taken 491 hours to build so far. The P47 took 1800hrs in total, this is obviously a quicker build process.

Enjoy

Andy

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[Sky Raider]

Hi All,

A breif look at the riviting. More to follow.

Andy

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[Gern]

Andy,

This is awesome stuff! I got a question though. You say you bought this as a kit, but it seems to me you've made 99% of the bits yourself. Just what exactly did you get in the box when you bought it?

Did you ever see that special offer in the old "MAD" magazine? For your $4.99 or whatever it was, you got a cube of wood, a pocket knife, a picture and a set of instructions. The only instruction on them was: "Cut away everything that doesn't look like the picture." 'Cos that sounds a bit like what you got! lol

Gern

 

[Sky Raider]

Hi Gern,

Well, the kit came with all the usual stuff basicaly, Ribs, formers, planking though it was short and canopy. Thats about it, i scrapped the original interior bits. Then there are the extras to purchase. Paint, fibreglass, resin, servos, retracts, radio gear, hinges, motors, speed controllers, batteries and the pilot figures that i modified. It adds up to quite a bit when you get down to it, the batteries alone are £200.00 then all the other bits i suppose equates to around £600 all told.

Its an expensive hobby building at this scale and you never recover your cost of labour... but eh, what the hell i enjoy it.

Regards

Andy

 

[Sky Raider]

Hi.

Here are some more rivits, these things will drive you mad if you let them. lol

Andy

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[Ian M]

This is some seriously good stuff going on here.

Ian M

 

[Sky Raider]

Thanks Ian,

i do tend to feel a little out of place on here at times as you guys build at a lot smaller scale than i do. Im not all that sure that this is the kind of things that you guys are interested in. I havent had any neg feed back as yet so ill just keep going until i hear otherwise.

Thanks again.

Andy

 

[treyzx10r]

Andy thats a riviting build,had to say it lol,honestly that is really looking good do you see small white dots everywhere you look for hours after a session or what?

Trey

 

[Sky Raider]

Thanks Trey,

You are right, it is very riviting work and you get stuck in to it lol. I see a snow storm after looking at it for too long. I will post some more pics later tonight and you can see the finished result.

Thanks again

Andy

 

[Ian M]

Andy ! You have nothing to worry about. Before I clikked to post this, there had been 5,435 hits on this build. That is a huge interrest. Its even got me looking at large scale plane kits in wood! (A Spitfire, go figure!)

You probably know this, but when doing PVA rivets on boats, I tend to mix a really shock colour in with the PVA. I found that once dry, PVA is pretty hard to see, and with a nice bright colour mixed in with it, you can see if you have missed any before you start to paint! Silver paint could also do it, and have the added bonus of after painting you could swip a finger across to expose the bare metal rivets here and there.

Unfortunatly the rules regarding RC aircraft in Denmark limit things abit. If you have a model over seven kilo you need a licence, to be in a club and have liability insurance. (thats probably a good idea).

Ian M

 

[Sky Raider]

Hi,

Another chapter closes. We really are getting close to the end now. The riviting is complete, only little bits to do now like the retract bays detailing and then its onto paint again. Could get the paint complete this weekend ready for insignia and numbering and nose art... thats if i dont get a call and say that we are shooting, lots of pigeon about still.

Anyway, here are the final riviting pics, it is hard to see some of the rivits as they dry out but this will be enhanced on the weathering process.

Regards

Andy

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[Sky Raider]

Hi,

more scale bits added, the control flutes on rudder etc and the finishing paneling in the retract bays.

Thanks for following

Andy

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[treyzx10r]

Andy that is truly amazing,really enjoying watching you work your magic !

Trey

 

[Sky Raider]

Hi Ian,

great tip with the paint mixing in the glue, thanks i had honestly never thought of that. I use a mix of water and Tightbond, will this still work also will it go off in the bottle if i leave it over night or not?. Thanks also for the comments, much appreciated.

Cheers

Andy

 

[Sky Raider]

Hi Trey,

Thanks, it will slow up a little now as we are up to speed with the pics, 12 months on and still building this dam thing lol.

Keep up the good work.

Andy