Jhm Builds A Buffalo

[John Howling Mouse]

You might want your wheels to be a bit further up inside the spats. Usually only less than half or perhaps a third of the wheel shows under the spats.

Brian da Basher

Yeah, I realize there has to be an internal connection point for the axle going through the spat.  For these homemade spats, I will be cheating: one of the finished wheels will simply be cut in half and glued to the underside of the spat (hence the flattened section of the spat that you see) to appear to be embedded within the spat.

[Brian da Basher]

It's going to be killer, Mr Howling Mouse! The Whiff is strong with you.

Brian da Basher

[Rafael]

Well, nothing fails when is built with cardboard (Yum!!!)

I am still worried abouth that Praying Pilot^TM and his dangerous balancing-or-impaling act.

Gorgeous plane

Rafa

[ysi_maniac]

 

Oh, please: we just need the and icons to post in this kins of threads.

[wolfik]

I have an idea....use two 1/48 75gal mustang tanks. cut the sides and glue two plates and then sand it smoth and you will have propably  a half usable body for your project...
I would arrange the struts like on the lysander...its my idea but your project!
best regards

[John Howling Mouse]

I have an idea....use two 1/48 75gal mustang tanks. cut the sides and glue two plates and then sand it smoth and you will have propably  a half usable body for your project...

But that would limit the quantity and quality of horrendous swearing I would emit !!!   

[John Howling Mouse]

A lot of sweating (but no swearing!) going on with the initial shaping from a sandwiched, rectangular block of styrene down to a basic teardrop shape.  Trick was that I had to whittle two chunks of raw styrene into a pair of spats that would end up reasonably identical to each other.  So far, so good.  Cut and sanded down the wheels and separate hubs, too.  It's coming along.  Today I will be making the strut-covers, too.  LOTS more sanding to go...

[Brian da Basher]

Mr Howling Mouse those are some of the sexiest spats I've ever seen!

You bet I saved these shots! I want to go over them in, um, detail!

Brian da Basher

[B777LR]

Agreed, they ARE sexy!

[John Howling Mouse]

First time I've ever used canopy masks provided by someone else.  I don't think it made it any easier (?) because I still had to cut them from the sheet, anyhow.  Don't most masks come as pre-cut items?

Don't know if this will simply ruin the anticipation or not but here are the spats with their new struts, actually attached to the wings now:



And, yes, I am "flying" this one around the house!

[cthulhu77]

...can hear the "vrooming" down here!  Great work, Baz.

[Eddie M.]

This is the kind of whiffery I look forward to. Looks like a shoulda been....
   Eddie

[B777LR]

Looks a bit like a flat plane!

[John Howling Mouse]

Another in the long line of "JHM's How NOT To Do It" series of articles.

I call this "PSSR" for Putty, Sand, SPATS! Repeat" but I really should have done the PSR before the spats were attached to the wing.  Initially, I thought, "Just put 'em on and see how bad the scratches and joints look once the primer's on."  So I glued it all on.  Then I realized I just could not leave the model in such a low state of quality. 

It will be interested to see if I can gently wet-sand the Bondo red glaze auto putty off without breaking the SPATS! off (like someone else we know...)

[Brian da Basher]

I'd be flying that one around the house and making strafing runs too!!! I really like trhe shape of the struts you used to attach them to the wings, Mr Howling Mouse! You've got the sculptor's eye for awesome shapes!

Best of luck with the PSR. Maybe if you held a block of balsa against the opposite side of the spat while you sand, it will help keep you from snapping them off.

Brian da Basher