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didn't quite get the gear mounted low enough in the fuse, and the off
set cam came into contact with the side of the fuse.... not pretty.
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These cut outs will surely test your skills.
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A very robust set up for securing the scale landing gear. Designed in
conjunction with Sierra Designs, P.C.M. has a very gorgeous product.
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spar secured, after building up from ply, balsa and capping with
carbon fiber.
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Wings are sheeted with supplied balsa, West Systems epoxy.
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Upper wing surfaces glassed.
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3w 70 |
Pattern firewall for the 3w |
Big spinner for sure! |
Official Desert Aircraft Drill guide.
(got to have one of these
for sure) |
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About how much head protrusion there will be, with no spacer.
If the engine is shifted aft, via a prop extension of some sort, a
little less head will show. |
With the back plate bolted on, and about a 1/16th of an inch spacer
between the back plate and front of the fuse you can easily get a
reference of where the back plate will need to go. |
Here the test pattern back plate is checked against the fuse, and
engine mounting plate. penciled scribe marks on the fuse for now. |
Pat at P.C.M. allows you to create a variety of versions of the 109,
here I have taped on the fuse bulges that will recreate a G-10. |
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... and how it looks without. |
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Backplate shimmed |
Laminated multi composite firewall tacked in
place. |
But how do I get the motor out, Doooooh! |
Bummer, but no choice off the top of my head. |
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Firewall perimeter taped up to collect resin. |
A mixture of chopped carbon, carbon tow strands, resin
thick and milled fibers added to perimeter of firewall.
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Firewall coated with West Systems epoxy . |
Tips with internal supports added, and epoxied onto
wings. Some light filling was needed. |
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Photo op. |
Tail group |
Install of the tail wheel post and support |
Elevator tacked back into place, once the sub
trailing and, elevator leading edge is added, then entire assemblyis block
sanded. |
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A look at the install of the gun belt fairings.
These give the plane in my opinion a very nice look. |
Great tool for getting your wing to tail
incidence. I prefer the Robart tool for finding the "0 angle
level flight".
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That white thing is abs plastic, and will need to be
turned into a canopy. Gonna be a neat trick. |
That's a beautiful profile |
Those gun troughs look too cool for words. |
The G10 gun blisters are actually asymmetrical. |
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Pat gives you lots of goodies to complete a nice
looking cockpit. |
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Some fore planning is needed to make sure your
cockpit floor is not going to be in the way of any servos. |
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Spitfires beware. |
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Flaps have a neat set up, will show that in upcoming
updates. |
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Plenty of room.
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View looking aft through the fuse
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For those super scale empowered, there are a few
"errors" associated with this view. I'll let you look them
up.
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3w has got to do something about the angle on the
choke, such an awkward location for any kind of smooth application of a
choke lever.
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Plenty of glass and West System reinforce this area,
where alot of the shaking and rolling will take place for the
engine. That is the ignition charge/kill switch.
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Petrol here please.
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Another view of the ignition charge/kill switch.
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Cozy set up for the ignition box, fuel tank and
ignition battery.
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More glass and carbon for the throttle servo
mount. Its not going anywhere!
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Note, if you get this kit, pay attention to the size
tire you buy. This one is the 6 1/2" scale unit from Glennis.
They are going to require a larger cut out in the top of the wing than the
6" tire.
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This is how much bigger the whole is, when using the
6 1/2" tire.
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Wax paper between the tire and the wing sheeting,
tack glue the blister in place with CA.
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Stuff some paper to fill up the gap between the tire
and the sheeting, then come behind that with some light weight filler. In
this case Jett Model light weight filler.
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Light sanding,,
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Wet the area well with West Systems, then lay over a
single layer of 1 3/4 oz cloth.
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Repeat. Once cured, sand and flare in.
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There ya go. The under side and in the well is
going to get glassed with a heavy weight cloth, after all of the excess
filler and sheeting has been dremeled away.
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The well, cleared of all the paper and the filler.
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The other well..
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The upper side after some light sanding, more sanding
to come after the glass in the wells has cured.
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And the 10 oz weight cloth glassed into the
well with West System, after some sanding of the area.
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...and the other well.
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The flaps, oil cooler supports and cooler/flaps
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Some carbon for the engine removal hatch area
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The wheel blisters faired in.
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Last glassing step for the wheel wells.
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The second of three steps to glass up wells. |
Glassing completed of wheel wells.
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Drilling the two blade prop for proper
high compression stopage.
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Drilling three bladed prop and back
plate
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Cutting and hinging of the oil
cooler/flaps.
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inverted view of the cooler /flaps
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Support built for the cooler
/flaps. There will be 4/40 screws used to hold down the oil coolers,
as well as make for easy access to the servo. |
A look at the amount of flap
service area that can be available when all surfaces are deployed. |
The abs plastic was very thin in some
places, and though I am sure Pat would have helped out with a better one,
with his permission, I quick molded one up for this customer. |
Photo op! |
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'nuther op! |
and another... |
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