Hurricane Build Tony Nijhuis design

righty ho gents and gentesses.

wing fairing on fuselage 3 is done and filled, needs smoothing tomorrow.
hopefully wing fairing number 4 will be done thursday.
then we can sand the wings down, fit the retracts and cover them.

Hi Tony,
Keep up the good work! Your build of 4 hurricanes plus getting a proxxon jig saw for half price inspired me to get on and build mine. This is my first build so following your thread and all the pics have been a fantastic help. Been a challenge trying to get the materials here in Japan, no 4.5mm balsa here! Just about finished the fuse, finished the linkages and got the final stringers in last night. Please keep the pics coming, hopefully I can get over my fear of covering.
Many thanks!
O

Welcome to the site.

nice looking build so far sir.
i like the tail wheel mount.

i am still debating on what to cover them with.
i am erring towards poly c and tissue as its supposed to be easy to use and fairly strong.

well i have started the last wing fairing.
looks like i will need to tweek all the ones i have already done a touch to get every thing to line up nice, but its no big problem.

going to cover the tails over the weekend and fix them to the fuselages.
just leaves the noses and retracts, final cover, fitting out and paint.

thank god we are nearly there.

last wing fairing done.
first wing now bolts to the fuselage, just tidying up the join between the wing and the fairing.

tomorrow i will bolt the next wing on and do the same as above. see how many wings i can bolt on.

tarting up the wing to fuselage join.



hurricane number 1 looking a little bit more hurricane like.



phew, we are finally starting to get some where. :woohoo: :woohoo:

wing 2 now bolts on.
need to make the extra bits of fairing for this one.
wing mounts on 3 and 4 glued on, when they are dry i can bolt those wings on as well.

all the wings are now bolted on.

last few bits of wing fairing to do and then we can move onto final sanding down of the tails, then i can cover them ready to be glued onto the fuselages.

playing with the retracts.

First set of retracts modified and in place.

the legs need shortening yet as do the axles, but they are in and fit.

legs down.


got to sort out the wiring run and the inner wheel wells, then i can sheet the rest of the underside of the wing and make up the wheel leg covers.

after much struggling and faffing about, i finally have a set of working retracts fitted to one of the 4.

come and have a look first.

well today has been spent trying to keep my feet warm.

finished the wheel wells and wing sheeting round them.
cut the 2 u/c covers and partially fitted them. i need some u/c clamps so i can clamp the wheel ends back to the leg.
still that's one set fitted and working.
onto the second set next.
i might sit and have a go at the first nose this afternoon if i am allowed too. :dry:

It's taken most of the day to get this far, but here is a completed set of retracts fitted and fully working.


spent a while now fiddling with making up jigs to start on the nose construction. :blink:
just about ready to start making the first nose up.

well i have screwed that up.

too much toe in on the wheels.
i can twist the axles on the legs to remove it, but that means re doing the wheel wells and that then means making new doors and re sheeting the bottom center of the wing.


i think its partially because the wheels i have must be thicker than the ones TN used.
also the gaps are only just big enough for the 3.5" wheels it says to use.
so some more fiddling is going to be needed to get it right.

ho hum back to the drawing board. :S




started the nose as well, though that will have to go on hold now.

Pity youve run into that problem Im so impressed with what youve done over the weekend,with the wheel wells brilliant work.