John H. Rood Posted September 16, 2019 Share Posted September 16, 2019 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martin Gay Posted September 16, 2019 Share Posted September 16, 2019 Ooooh! Nice! Easy colour scheme to replicate as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John H. Rood Posted September 16, 2019 Author Share Posted September 16, 2019 ABOVE: A project for THE MAD STENCILER! Some of my photos are c/o the noted author, researcher, and model builder Tommy Thomason and his excellent TAILSPIN TOPICS blog. Tommy's meticulous eye for detail is just the kind of thing we addicts crave. For example, here he traces the FJ Fury & F-86 Sabre lineage and development. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John H. Rood Posted September 16, 2019 Author Share Posted September 16, 2019 At the National Museum of Naval Aviation in Pensacola: An FJ-2 painted in spurious markings to represent XFJ-2 Bu 133755. Note the 4x20mm cannon installation, as contrasted with the F-86 Sabre's 6x.50 calibre. A small detail, also: the XFJ-2 had the same nose inlet shape as the F-86E/F, whereas the production FJ-2 on view here has a just slightly deeper nose. The follow-on FJ-3 had a yet deeper nose shape, and the later FJ-4 was a different airplane altogether, only superficially resembling its predecessors. ABOVE: Pax River! Home of the NATC -- and TPS, the U.S. Naval Test Pilot School. BELOW: Watch that MiG !!! Note the clean lines of the Sabre/Fury family from aft, and the gaping maw of what looks to be an FJ-4 in the foreground. Edited By John H. Rood on 16/09/2019 05:15:04 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy Meade Posted September 16, 2019 Share Posted September 16, 2019 Good choice! I've got Terry Lidstone's old FJ4 - that's why I'm not partaking in the mass build this year. No point having two airframes the same! She just needs a bit of tidying, and will be ready for the event I'll be able recreate this old photo of Terry now I have a SeaHawk of my own too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John H. Rood Posted October 16, 2019 Author Share Posted October 16, 2019 Can't deny it -- there is NOTHING quite like a new scale modelling treat arriving in the post. And is this one ever a goodie! Just HAD to give it a quick fondle. Beautiful!!! I know, I know... I'm a happy love-slave! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Kettle 1 Posted October 16, 2019 Share Posted October 16, 2019 Nice picture John. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martin Gay Posted October 16, 2019 Share Posted October 16, 2019 You sound happy John. Glad to see the kit arrived safely. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John H. Rood Posted November 1, 2019 Author Share Posted November 1, 2019 OK now all you PSSA Ozone-Adventurers, I shall begin my build here on Day 1 with assembling the wing jig. The drawings sure are a help in understanding what’s to go where! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John H. Rood Posted November 1, 2019 Author Share Posted November 1, 2019 Assembling the jig spanwise members J2, J3, and J4. First I cleaned them up a bit with sanding sticks and a round file and it was soon an easy fit. The drawings make everything very clear. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John H. Rood Posted November 1, 2019 Author Share Posted November 1, 2019 2019 Autumn colours outside => 2020 Mass Build Commences. All the spanwise jig parts in stacks: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Garsden Posted November 8, 2019 Share Posted November 8, 2019 Looking good John. When you are finished you can get in it and fly over to the Orme for the fly-in? Cheaper than Virgin Atlantic? Probably need a B52 with you to help refuel? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John H. Rood Posted November 8, 2019 Author Share Posted November 8, 2019 So, fishing sinkers I have. This is a very weighty topic. Thanks, Peter for the encouragement. I was hoping to hitch a ride inside a stray Antonov PSS model of ungodly size that might be wandering around the North Atlantic, but indeed a B-52 is a high altitude bird that can keep the champagne cold. Manifest destiny! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil Cooke Posted November 8, 2019 Share Posted November 8, 2019 Good to see your build and Sabre adventure underway John - watching with interest! I can’t start mine quite just yet - not until this 150% Jet Provost is off the board - so I’ll be playing catch up on the Sabre in a few weeks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John H. Rood Posted November 9, 2019 Author Share Posted November 9, 2019 Thanks, Phil! And thanks for hosting this Mass Build 2020. To be sure, I've by no means quit on building the 2016 A-4 Skyhawk, but I was unable to resist this 2020 Mass Build. The design looks gorgeous and the kit is fantastic. So now I've completed the wing jig --plenty of gussets and a little Dawn Patrol action today with an all-sheet balsa catapult launch USAF Sabre I created many years ago, long before all you kiddos were even hatched: And speaking of hatched, not many people are aware that, early-on, the XFJ-2 Fury tried out a fairly unusual internal flotation system for those unscheduled ocean landings. With the scale judges looking on, I've developed a faithful rendering of that very installation: This system has already proved helpful in explaining to the wife why I REALLY NEEDED TO BUY THIS KIT! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McG 6969 Posted November 9, 2019 Share Posted November 9, 2019 ... unfortunately, my kit didn't contain any 'flotation system' but I guess it's a Fury option... Too bad as it could be useful at the Grand Orme with the Atlantic Ocean down there. Keep up the mojo over there... Cheers Chris Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Garsden Posted November 9, 2019 Share Posted November 9, 2019 We usually arrange for a fishing trawler to wait for fallen models in the Irish Sea. Great to have on board John, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John H. Rood Posted November 18, 2019 Author Share Posted November 18, 2019 Bright and early this morning, Commander Garsden's mention of fishing trawlers induced the wife (and I, by default) to mangle her brave new hot plate holder / trivet / Sabre wing jig as seen here: I think she was figuring the FJ-2 Fury's unique wing fold feature ought be introduced right here so as to free up stowage space aboard the trawlers. I'm not sure she was right about it, but in the end, the PSS scale judges will ascertain the soggy, briney truth. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John H. Rood Posted November 19, 2019 Author Share Posted November 19, 2019 Toward the goal of keeping all the glue joints on the inside, here are the matched sets of wing skin outsides: Here are the insides, folding them over and gluing the seam with Titebond, then laying it down to dry: I'm building these skins on a very heavy and flat glass surface. After taking these pics I glued up the other three skins as well, and adding books on top as weights so they'll all hopefully dry nice and flat. Next is to mark the ribs and spars on the insides. Edited By John H. Rood on 20/11/2019 00:00:12 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John H. Rood Posted November 20, 2019 Author Share Posted November 20, 2019 Lower skins are now ready, and later on the uppers will be trimmed to fit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McG 6969 Posted November 20, 2019 Share Posted November 20, 2019 Good progress, John. ... but I think you forgot to draw R3 on the starboard lower wing sheet... Cheers Chris Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John H. Rood Posted November 22, 2019 Author Share Posted November 22, 2019 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John H. Rood Posted November 22, 2019 Author Share Posted November 22, 2019 Just more of the simpler odds n' sods... laminating the FOD Collector and the two ply wing bolt plates (WP-1). Ascend Mount Olympus... High Noon at the Klamp Korral feeding trough... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John H. Rood Posted November 23, 2019 Author Share Posted November 23, 2019 A ways to go, but it's a start. And fun! Backside: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John H. Rood Posted November 23, 2019 Author Share Posted November 23, 2019 Rough shape achieved. The Sabre nose shape is complex, and my main thing here was to utilize G&M's quadrants and stay with them. I did everything so far with just a sanding block and 60 grit and then 100 grit. I don't like sanding with loud power tools; I enjoy the quiet of doing it all by hand where possible. Also later on I wrapped the sandpaper around a dowel to do internal bits, tight spots. The quality of design in G&M's three-layer lamination enabled me to do all this basic shaping with just the quadrants, layers, and the plan views, but without consulting photo/artwork references. However, near the session's end tonight I got a bit overenthusiastic with the 60 grit and took off a bit too much on the leading edge of each side (the area just above my thumb in the photos); this happened because I did not check back often enough with G&M's accurate side elevations. Later on I'll need to fix this to get the proper side profile at the lip. And of course there is more shaping to do with the whole thing. But the overall feel is there and it is straight and squared-up -- and hopefully it will come out true to the plan specs. Edited By John H. Rood on 23/11/2019 02:27:38 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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