Long term tinkering project that i am not sure will wind up anywhere but here it is. This will be taking a backseat to the SS Shuttle as soon as it gets here but figured it would be a good time to share pics before i made much more progress. Working on the gear down swap x wing got me a little motivated to play with the patter, I should just leave well enough alone but i have been tinkering with the fuselage a bit to get it a little closer to the pyro fuselage. Moe got this incredibly close but i wanted to kind of "reverse engineer" the cockpit area by fitting the fuselage to the canopy frame rather than fitting the frame to the fuselage. Again the V3 is very close, but needed about 1mm added to each side of the fuselage at the widest part of the frame/fuselage meeting point (the split between the forward and back frame) The fuselage also needed to be narrowed just a bit at the forward most part of the frame. This led to all sorts of subtle changes in the shape of the fuselage. Using the pyro as a guide i have detected a bit of a curvature to the side walls between the nose and the canopy, i would guess a result of hand sanding on the original pattern? So i skim coated the entire renshape v3 pattern and added the curve while keeping the dims correct. The overall effect mimics the "fullness" in that part of the fuselage. Also needed to widen just in back of the canopy frame (between r2 and the frame) by about 1mm.
Couple of pics with the v3 fuselage, not sure if any of these changes are all that detectable in pics. The canopy on the new fuselage is a stand in from the pyro casting, i will need to build a new one for the pattern. I still don't even have a V3 for myself at this point other than that landing gear one so i may wind up molding this at some point. I have also worked out a "economy" s foil set up using standard size aluminum rod and the L brackets configured to cast in a HD resin, if i decide to mold all this at some point.
thanks
mike
Couple of pics with the v3 fuselage, not sure if any of these changes are all that detectable in pics. The canopy on the new fuselage is a stand in from the pyro casting, i will need to build a new one for the pattern. I still don't even have a V3 for myself at this point other than that landing gear one so i may wind up molding this at some point. I have also worked out a "economy" s foil set up using standard size aluminum rod and the L brackets configured to cast in a HD resin, if i decide to mold all this at some point.
thanks
mike
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