Made it to Peters March 5th to work on the fuselage a bit and really get the R wing panel moving along. You can see the image above that I sanded, using an electric sander, off the overhang of the fuselage bottom I previously installed to ensure a smooth finish with the fuselage sides. Next […]
Building Seamaster Day 8: Fuse Bottom Edge & Wing Panel Read More »
On Feb. 28th I continued work on the fuselage and unfortunately didn’t discover an issue that will come to light during an upcoming session. Perhaps it hadn’t fully presented itself at this time, or perhaps I was just oblivious. Either way this day was about continuing work on the fuselage. To reinforce the nose of
Building Seamaster Day 7: F1 Former & Mid-Bottom Sheet Read More »
On Feb. 27th worked on the fuselage and started the wing! It was at this point I really felt like progress was heating up 🙂 One of the tasks for the evening, now that the front of the aircraft is shaped and dried was to install the front formers (F3 to F1, that’s the order
Building Seamaster Day 6: Front Formers + Wings Beginning Read More »
Another great building session took place Saturday February 24th. The first thing, as seen in Fig. 1 and 2 below is that the screw hole for anchoring the engine support post (is what I’m calling it) to the fuselage was drilled. The groove carved into the ‘post’, seen in Fig. 1, Peter had done at
Building Seamaster Day 5: Sides Attached & Nose Shaping Read More »
February 21st was about finishing off the Pylon and starting to get the fuselage sides attached. The first step was ensuring the seems of where the spacers meet the formers are secure by applying a bead of medium CA glue long the seems. This was done for all four areas, inside and out, making for
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Monday the 19th was a day of dang’s and backtracking before nicely getting ahead. When I first got there and was working discovered that the sides of the fuselage hadn’t stuck together well enough. Bad batch of glue! That’s my story and I’m sticking to it… the only other evidence I have is that Peter
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Playing catch up on my blog posts here as been busy! Last Saturday, Feb. 17th, was a building session that focused on getting the 3 pieces of each side of the fuselage glued together and stabilizer. In order to glue the pieces of the fuselage together you mix up a batch of glue as it
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Woot, woot! Wednesday this past week I got to start another build. This time around I am building a Seamaster. This build has taken some time to get started with all the major life changes that happened over this winter and some hiccups in the creation of the kit itself. This kit is no longer
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