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Progressing on planking the front empanage , once that I have planked around to the where the jigs attach to the fuselage sides, I will remove it from the glass building surface, with the front empanage being locked in true quite hopefully, and then proceed to complete the installation of the elevators, since the post office delivery of my carbon fiber push rods happened today .
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More planking progress.
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And another shot. Once I start planking it is hard for me to stop,like every time I have a look at the project, I find myself right back at it, appling another run of planks. At this stage the Connies nose appears a little more like the Super Constellatlion to me. Here also is pretty much my constant companion, He was a sleep but woke up just as I lined him up in the lense and he wakes up, now he is back with his ball and wants to play some more!! Frankly I am just a bit surprised that he tolerates my building as opposed to playing ball with him, and does'nt instead, give that glue and balsa empanage the chew stick treatment..
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Your plane is looking Good!! and here is our new pooch, Zeke.. Oh, and his tail is not bobbed, it's just the way the picture came out.
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Love Dogs. So trusting, so lovable next to Women the best companions, always there for You. Well back to the Lockheed L-1049 Super Constellation: yester day I finished planking the top half if the front fuselage and then cemented extra planking into place where I found noticable low spots while doing some rough sanding ;so now there is an extra layer of selected very soft density balsa planking glued along the length of the low spot and once the Sigment is dry, will easily be sanded till the surface is reasonably level. I have found this technique to work better than using filler for noticable low spots.
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More sanding ,plank filling, as previously described; I have planked as much as possible,So after adding shaping and sanding to shape. the cabin top balsa block, it will be time to remove the assembly from the glass surface work table and hurry up and wait for 'hopefully,' the correct size nose retract strut that I reciently ordered and have coming all the way from China,which I do not do not have a problem. Also I'm anxious to again with the forward fuselage mostly planked, to double check it's fit to the rear empanage.
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I was working on the cockpit window frames and making plywood window templates, so I will be ready to cut the clear plastic windshield sections when the time comes to install the windshield. At this juncture I'm also working on the nose of the Constellation, and while observing the forward nose fuselage profile on both the plans and the HELLER 1-72" scale plastic model , I'm noticing a most definate discrepancy between the plastic model and the front fuselage plans for the Phillip Noel plans for the L-1049 Super Constellation. The side view plans show a nice well defined constant progressing curviture, as does the HELLER 1-72" scale plastic models nose does however, when viewing from the top of the fuselage nose section: instead of a constant curviture, there instead is an inside radiius that begins a slight distance past the front cockpit. See photos, what to do? I can build the area up as necessary just below the front wind shield area and then sand the constant straight line that proceeds to the radome or..
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I continued work on the cockpit area and found it necessary to add balsa balsa fill and then filled imperfections with a mix of Z POXY finishing resin and brown micro ballons, which I mixed very dry by mixing in as much of the micro ballons as possible, formulating a dry mix, this really helps keep the weight down. After the windshield area looked right ,I added the balsa blocks to the cabin top and sanded to shape raising more balsa chips and dust using the Master Airscrew Wood planer and sanding blocks than imaginable, the first picture shows only a Small portion of the dust and shavings. When sanding I find masking tape a Tremendous help to ensure areas not intended to be sanded down are not accidentally over sanded!
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It was time to remove the front empanage, so I did that and then I proceeded to check alignment of the front and rear empanage, as I nervously bolted the two sections together and to my relief no problems at all were noted, as the front and rear sections mated perfectly, as I could of hoped for at bulk heads f-11Fand f-11A . Next up I will finish the elevators and servos installations and then will proceed to re jig the front empanage and finish the planking ,which requires two more steps doing the bottom left and right sides. Here is a shot of the Lockheed L-1049 Super Constellation as things are now. I plan to be starting the Connie's c wing sections the first part of November and really looking forward to that!!!
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Looks like a Connie!!!
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Thanks my friend, it's getting there!!This early morning I finished the dual servo dual elevators installation. My Hitec 5065MG servos are becoming my go to servo for my more advanced electric R/C projects. I have a video of the elevator installation in operation on My FB page for any one interested in seeing it.
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I have long since decided on the TWA livery,in spite of the fact that there are so many fascinating versions and schemes out there to chose from; and also since I had previously decided to complete the plastic reference model of the 1:72 scale Heller L-1049 Super Constellation, and finding then finding the decals included with the kit were old and yellowed I proceeded to do a net search and FINALLY found an excellent decal maker called Vintage Flyer Decals who,once , back in business be having been chosed, due to the un mentionable virus, finally sent Me my three sheets of decals; I couldn't of been more pleased.! ,it included a very nice instruction sheet with excellent application three views snd decal sheets of very excellent quality. Here are a few shots, I'm so anxious to apply them to my plastic bag scale model. I plan to have Callie graphics.com to enlarge these decals to vinyl decals.
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Finishing the rear planking, once that complicated small section pictured at the rear fuselage is done ,planking the remaining section as shown in this photo will go fast. ;however at this juncture I'm reasearching the location of possible additiinal navigation lights on the rear fuselage, now before the remaining planking is applied as it would be so much easier to install additiinal lighting with out the remaining planks installed . At this point the plan is to install the rear navigation light, as shown by the wire lead at the tail end of the Constellation.
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The rear empanage planking is now finished and I am doing some finish shaping. Next up is jigging the front of the Connie's fuselage up on to it's side to finish the planking there.
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Constellation Navigation Lights
Been quietly watching your build.
But thought I would hopefully help you with your navigation lights. I was lucky enough to go for a flight on the HARS Super “CONNIE” back in February and had a really good look over her. Unfortunately I was unable to take photos as we were filming a documentary and were banned from taking any cameras or phones with us. I was a bit annoyed as it is a public place and a museum. And anyone can go and see and hop on board of her at anytime and take photos, but we couldn’t. Can not really see the logic in that, but anyway. The constellation has a total of 11 lights. 1- Red nav light.(port) 2- Green nav light(starboard) 3- white constant tail ligth(anti collision) 4- top side beacon(red, rotating) 5- belly beacon(red, rotating) 6,7- nose wheel(landing lights) 8,9- under side of the outer wings(retracting landing lights) 10,11- each side of fuselage just in front of wings.(have seen them mentioned as landing lights. But have seen them on at other times) In the photos below (from the internet) you can see where the landing lights are on the wings and also the fuselage. I believe the ones on the fuselage are supposed to be able to see the wheels on landing.(from what I have heard and read) And you can clearly see all the lights on the Constellation in the video as well. Hope this helps!!
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