The Cyprus peanut scale twin engine F104

Make orange juice, cooking and Eric and me play football with them
I have Arther from head to toe OT get a bit difficut at times but hay ho the sun is shining

Dry fit the aileron and flap



Started on the other flap

And still planking !!! on the bottom of the rear section, about out of 3mm balsa, need another 15 sheets so i guested that wrong again :S

THE BLACKBIRD wrote: Make orange juice, cooking and Eric and me play football with them
I have Arther from head to toe OT get a bit difficult at times but hay ho the sun is shining [/quote
I'd flog 'em down the market but I suppose everyone and his wife does this already Eh? My Arfer is my damned hips and a bit in my toes. Hopefully hips soon to be resolved but got to see surgeon in clinic AGAIN on 10th April first. I might get them done in time for next birthday [badass]

Took the rear section out into the nice warm sunshine and gave it a good sanding down


Did a little on the wing, servo hatches,and sheeting around them using the last of the off cuts i have from the 70 3mm sheetsi brought back,about stuck until i can get some more


And made up the horn for the aileron

Cleaned up around the rear end and looked to see how the thrust tubes will exit

Thats about it for today

No modelling from me i am down with a real bad dose of cyno poisoning
Do you think it was the Russians, Natilia maybe :sick: :sick: :evil:

Flaps and ailerons now made and dry hinged



All control surface servo mounts made, 24kg torque servos on each surface, two on the tailplane

Not feeling up to much this morning after another night with no sleep :sick: thought i would have a clean up in the shed
So out it all came into the beautiful warm sunshine while i cleaned the dust up,

I finished building the fin and dry fit the hinges and horn

Tonight i had an idea so worked on the retract, to give it strength when landing it needs a bracing strut the same as the full size, so this is what i came up with







The air cylinder came off the SU27 along with the universal joint, the cylinder is destroyed so it dose not operatethe brass tube slides along the piston arm when it retracts, when it is in the down position the tube is tight up against the cylinder giving the brasing

And o think i have had one of the Rich Nicosia guys begging me to give him all the destroyed undercarriage from the SU ever since it crashed , in case he damages his, he has exactly the same model, and they are no longer produced

Go the front section finished planking today so tomorrow i can sand it down and take the mould off it for the nose leg doors





also d the main gear door moulds



and the nose leg doors
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Just a FET - can't see the markings on it though. Cost about £1 to replace!

Having had so many bad nights without any sleep i reverted to my sleeping pills last night, normally the have no effect taking the prescribed dose so i doubled it and also took my pain killers at the same time
Boy did i have a nights sleep woke up at 10 am but went back to sleep been there all day getting nothing done, so tonight i went and fit the retract in the F104







Now i cannot sleep :sick:

Working in the hanger this afternoon and something caught my eye, it was this falling to the floor

I looked up and there was a bloody rat coming through the ceiling :woohoo: the stains on the ceiling are where they are peeing i think, it has got on the Bucker so ill fly it a couple of times and if its ok ill recover it

They had nibbled a small hole before and i had stuck tape over it now they are pushing the tape down, there were also leaves in it so they are nesting up there
Gave the hole a whack with the sweeping brush, then half an hour later it tried again :S
Along with snakes they give me the shivers, i keep putting off ripping the ceiling down but its got to be done now, cannot have those bloody things over my head any longer, so i will go tomorrow and buy goggles, mask, gloves and disposable over suit and sort them :ohmy:
Sprayed pva on the door and fin top moulds and the glassed them, three layers of cloth and one layer of 100g carbon cloth

First off my rat made the hole bigger last night so i had to stop it making a mess on the floor, the dogs come in and out all the time and i dont want them getting infected with anything so

i got a bucket and propped it up against the ceiling to catch all the crap coming down, then it though why not put a trap in the bucket, so i went and bought one, its in the bucket, if it catches one i will throw the trap with the rat in it buggered if im getting near the bloody thing, for 2 euro ill buy a new one :ohmy: :S
My fibre glass parts came out ok



so started to dry fit the doors





Got some blue foam to make the plug for the thrust nozel

Wonderful work Tony.
love how you did the doors.
as for rats, i have squirels in my shed roof that i need to get rid of this year.

Tony B

Bought a load of these hinges a few years back but can i hell as like get them to work, tried again tonight on the gear doors, :ohmy: but the doors always bind and will not open,
But that is what they are designed for :S

Would I be right in assuming the door is closed by the I/C leg as it retracts.
If the hinge itself is not stiff then binding can only be the result door linkage geometry. A picture might help.