Spitfire2865
Western Thunderer
130 rivets down.
Tender tank outer
Inner. Still have to cut and file these down.
Each was two panels with proper overlapped joints.
Next is to join those two to the forward center panel to make something like this.
A single 3' long panel which needs to be wrapped into a horseshoe tank and located into the front and back tank spacers.
Itll certainly be an interesting assembly process as I have to solder this to the steel framework before soldering the flares to the walls and soldering in hundreds of rivets. Going to be a lot of quick work with a hot iron and plenty of support. Luckily at such a large size, the distance between presoldered parts is fairly large.
Tender tank outer
Inner. Still have to cut and file these down.
Each was two panels with proper overlapped joints.
Next is to join those two to the forward center panel to make something like this.
A single 3' long panel which needs to be wrapped into a horseshoe tank and located into the front and back tank spacers.
Itll certainly be an interesting assembly process as I have to solder this to the steel framework before soldering the flares to the walls and soldering in hundreds of rivets. Going to be a lot of quick work with a hot iron and plenty of support. Luckily at such a large size, the distance between presoldered parts is fairly large.