TeeELL’s New ‘cubby hole’ (and 3D) creations.

[TeeELL]

Really impressive work Tony, I do like those replacement tailplanes and your seats look excellent. I do like your new rear fuselage although I'd be a bit nervous about cutting out the old section due to it being joined to the wings - it seemed to go well though.

The thing about the cut along the wings is that they have to have the taper reduced anyway so there is quite a bit of freedom for error.

[Stuart]

Really impressive work Tony, I do like those replacement tailplanes and your seats look excellent. I do like your new rear fuselage although I'd be a bit nervous about cutting out the old section due to it being joined to the wings - it seemed to go well though.

The thing about the cut along the wings is that they have to have the taper reduced anyway so there is quite a bit of freedom for error.

That's a good point actually.

[TeeELL]

The mismatch between the inner and outer wing profiles - leading to the need for filling and sanding is partly due to the ends of the inner wing profiles having an almost imperceptible curve increasing the section! I shall have a go at making it ‘flat’ when compared to the main section.
(Easier to see than to describe).

[TeeELL]

One advantage of this build is that I can see how my printed parts actually ‘fit’ the kit from a builders perspective - sounds a bit illogical, but when parts such as the seamless intake ducts were originally designed, they were copied from the kit parts. In fitting ‘my’ parts during this build I seen ways of helping the builder. For instance: by adding a fine reference line along the outer side of the intake duct - it can be used to ensure the duct is level - and a notch at the back helps the alignment of the compressor faces. These items are being test printed right now.

[TeeELL]

No build progress today - sorry.
The alternative print parts have come out well enough but I’ve done a little extra modifying of the compressor faces - both the S6 and S7 versions.
Out this evening so progress may continue tomorrow.[

[ukjet]

Hi Tony,

First post here, just been doing a deep dive on research into converting my mk1 Hurricane to the metal wing version and came across your build (love it). Do you have a source for the alley cat conversion still? I am really struggling with tracking this down!

[PGAS]

Really enjoying your 3D printing work Tony. Are you self-taught? Did you have some CAD background talent/education before?

[TeeELL]

Really enjoying your 3D printing work Tony. Are you self-taught? Did you have some CAD background talent/education before?

Totally self taught, 2 years ago I had no idea how to even begin and as for any previous experience - no, there isn’t much call for it in the cockpit of a jet trainer doing 7 miles/min at 250 ft! Lol.

[PGAS]

Really enjoying your 3D printing work Tony. Are you self-taught? Did you have some CAD background talent/education before?

Totally self taught, 2 years ago I had no idea how to even begin and as for any previous experience - no, there isn’t much call for it in the cockpit of a jet trainer doing 7 miles/min at 250 ft! Lol.

Excellent progress on talent then. Also gives me hope as well. My past experience was a lot slower. About 4 miles a minute at 500 feet in the CT-114 Tutor.

[TeeELL]

This morning the intake trunking interiors have received a coat of satin white. I have used the revised trunking with a reference line on the side (to help with horizontal alignment - photos will follow) but my original starter bullet/compressor faces. The slight lip, I think I mentioned, on the section of wing which connects with the outer wing has been filed back with the port requiring rather more sanding than the starboard. A test fit suggests that this fixes about 90% of the ‘fit error’ (fill and file/sand) at the join.
Just at the moment the starboard outer wing section is attached and drying.



The silver disc is one of 2 magnets keeping the outboard wing section flat. Once again, I’ve used Revell Contacta - so an extended drying time.

I am now considering designing my own Firestreak missiles as 3D printing can produce some very fine ‘wings’.

[TeeELL]

I found a second piece of plate glass so the upper fuselage is now held in a similar fashion whilst the outer wing section is secured in place.

[TeeELL]

This is about 15 mins work. The basic design work has been completed, I need to add the various external ducts, the fuse windows and the pylon connection point. Not sure how I am going to represent the faceted glass nose just yet.



I took dimensional notes from the Firestreak at Newark Air Museum.

[TeeELL]

The 4 external ducts have been added along with the bands where the fuse windows are positioned - I want to see if these are too prominent.
I’ve added the seeker head and will print both to see how they look.



With seeker head





If these work out, I’ll have a never ending supply of Firestreak missiles!

[TeeELL]

The estimated time for printing the supported missiles was 2hrs 35mins according to the slicing software - that would translate to about 3 hrs in the printer, so I didn’t have time to set things going unfortunately.

With the outer wing sections joins hardening that is it for this week. Construction will continue on Monday - who knows, the model might shape up to looking like a Javelin next week!???

[ShaunW]

Very interesting project, Tony and you are certainly something of a dab hand with this 3D malarkey!