Small Scale Military Headquarters

Hey guys. Was meant to post these earlier this week. I tried to cut some corners when building the wings but it backfired and I ended up having to re-profile them to the correct shape on the undersides of each wing, which set me back a few days. Also, these are the master forms - not the actual model. So I'll be making some fibreglass moulds of these forms for the finished plane (fingers crossed).

Nice work jay!!!!!!!!

Very nice Jay. Are you manufacturers watching out there? See what one man can do. I hope you other guys are doing well on your projects.

Mark

Jay

That is some very nice work on the BF-110. Look at all that balsa.

Reminds me of the old days of building radio controlled airplanes. When my grandfather and I first got into the hobby. Back in those days, you had to build everything up from balsa like you have done with the Bf-110. I remember the amount of work it was so to see something like you have done is tremendous. Great work!

Now most of the R/C planes have prebuilt componets and some come totally built and are made out of foam because people didn't want to build them anymore. Yeah well. Sorry, off on a tangent there.

Very nice work, look forward to seeing the finished model.

Regards

Corey

Great work, I wish you luck to finish it. One of the best looking twin engine German planes.
momaw nadon

You've got some real skills man. Good job!

Great job!

boy i wish i could do stuff like that. Excellent work.

Thanks for the comments. It's actually really great to hear you guys because up until now, the only people who have seen this project are my room-mates and being all females are like *wow yawn*. So it's good to know, not just me, but all us guys building for this comp that our work is going to get recognised by like minded people.

Jay,

Bloody hell mate that looks fantastic so far

Once you have your molds maybe you could hollow out the cockpit area on this one & use this too??

Whatever path you take at the end of the day,Wish you good luck on getting this done & sharing with females My arn`t we the lucky one LOL


Looking forward to seeing more of this project as you progress along with it

Jason

Jay, you've got Female room-mates and your making airplanes Im just kidding, Your Bf-110 looks great. Good luck to you, thats going to be one cool looking custom.

Jay, I think I better come by your place...erm...to verify it's 1/18th of course. Just kidding When it's finished you must bring it along to one of our tank club meets,sometimes I take my planes along and set up a german airfield,your 110 will look good on that!

JAY---I'am glad I didn't enter this contest---looks like your going to be a tough one to beat!!!!---RED---

Hey guys

Once you have your molds maybe you could hollow out the cockpit area on this one & use this too??

steelbonnet - with the time ticking away I am almost considering just using the moulds for the actual model. But I have to keep reminding myself how cool it would be to have a dedicated set of bf110 moulds!

Jay, you've got Female room-mates and your making airplanes

Ha normandy, that is why I DO make models! Hopefully their body clocks won't sync with one another (Imagine three grumpy females once a month ).

Hey tankdual, hows it going? Looks like I'll be pushing a bit to hard for a photo-op before the due date, but we should catch up sometime for sure. My friend and I have been talking about going to motat for ages but we were waiting for a cool exhibition to come along (we missed the robots one).

Any-hoo, heres the lastest progress pics. Fuselage halves have been mated. And the wings (upper surfaces) have been glassed, so should be able to start assembling tomorrow (more bogging and sanding!). I think I'll make the tail plane parts out of acrylic sheet, so I don't have to do the whole mould - glass thing. Will hopefully start on the detail parts this weekend. Managed to get hold of some scale mainwheels and tail wheels and will attempt to make the undercarriage out of stock alluminium tubing.

Bye for now.

Very Impressive Jay ;D

Must admit if I thought I had space & time & also talent I may have jumped on this contest myself.

As it is I`m just happy to stick with Troops & ground vehicles

Doesn`t stop me admiring the Aircrafts though & who knows one day I may try my hand at an aircraft....LOL

ja
Steel Bonnet

nice update Jay,

unfortunately, there's a thin chance that your roommates' bodyclocks sync, it's something known to happen in boarding schools

Aarrgghh. I've mentioned this in the actual competition thread, but just to reiterate. I'm running out of time fast so I've grudgingly had to give up on the moulds idea, and make the model out of the actual masterforms. The upside is now I'm slighty back on track (but still way behind - but feeling more confident of completing this). I still have to add ribs to the wheel wells (4 along each side of the sidewalls). I still have to build the cockpit, canopy(!?), props, tailplane, landing gears and various bits and pieces. Luckily having gone to university, I'm well schooled in the art of not sleeping for 4 days straight, so in a way I have about 8 days left

Jay have you done any new work on this yet?

VMF115 wrote:Jay have you done any new work on this yet?

Yes, but at the moment it actually looks worse than before (fuselage is cut open and wings are off). I'm working on it S-L-O-W-L-Y but I've had other projects underway which have taken my time. Here are the original pics of the model.......

Still a real beauty Jay! I can't wait to see her finished.

Mark

Jay what are you planning on doing to it?

The original plan was a detailed cockpit / wheel well compartments and generally much more detailed. So basically the plane has been stripped down and I'm just adding things bit by bit as per what I originally had in mind. Paint scheme is probably going to be the one in the picture, second one down (wasp)

Thanks Jay, I always liked the wasp scheme.

How did you make the canopy ? Is it vacuformed ? Also are the wheels custom made or store baught ?

The canopy was plunge moulded over a wooden master form. I used a hair dryer to soften/melt the clear plastic sheet. The wheels are premade through a company here in New Zealand. They're marketed for radio control aircraft. Alluminium landing gears are custom.