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| rayl | Scratch Built Consolidated XF-92A | Build | 10-Jan-15 10:00 |  | | Views : 469 | | The finished master with my first attempt at forming the canopy. This is a totaaly new process to me: SLip the form into a soft-drink 2 liter bottle that has been cut off at both ends then apply heat from a heat gun and teh plastic magically shrinks the shape of the master. Cool! |
| rayl | Scratch Built Consolidated XF-92A | Build | 10-Jan-15 09:57 |  | | Views : 418 | | Next project is to carve the master for the canopy. I used Basswod that I picked up at the local big-box home improvement store. This is a progress shot about a 1/2 hour into the process. |
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| rayl | Scratch Built Consolidated XF-92A | Build | 10-Jan-15 09:54 |  | | Views : 470 | | Here are completed main gears. They need to be cleaned up a little now. The grand plan is to leave these in this form until I have them mounted in the airframe and trued up then I will guzzie them up with plastruct tubing and othe do-dads to give them the correct appearance. |
| rayl | Scratch Built Consolidated XF-92A | Build | 10-Jan-15 09:49 |  | | Views : 395 | | It's getting interesting now. The main L/G of this A/C has a main support axle with 4 struts attaching it to the oleo strutt. Each of the strutts is at a different angle and lenght. I made the jig shown to be able to make sure that the gears are identical. The gears are made of various sizes of brass tubing silver solderd together. |
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