Rutan Voyager, A-model,
wings fully assembled and sanded, not completely smooth, they had a lot of heatshrinking and very wavy borders
tail booms glued and sanded
tail booms glued and sanded, here I had some delamination of the plastic... It just kinda peeled off
a lot of sanding ahead
Hull and booms united... more putty and sanding ahead, canards haven't been fixed to avoid unwanted setting of the parts due to tension
Hull and booms united... more putty and sanding ahead, canards haven't been fixed to avoid unwanted setting of the parts due to tension
Holding it in position till dry
looking good
Main wings assembled and sanded
Main wings assembled and sanded
exhaust openings in wrong location
holes filled with sprue and sanded
original back view
kit rear view... big difference
used a saw to remove these parts, nonetheless some broke... there are to equals props delivered, in reality the front one had a streamline cap, the rear one didn't. Shapewise they don't resemble the real ones at all
this took a lot of sanding..., not 100%
Sanded the props a bit more into shape... outer tips should be more square
Made the openings at the back larger and added the exhausts
Closed the wrong openings and added the front exhausts
Original nose
Original nose
Some sharing and sanding
Reworked the complete area
Front landing gear ready for paint
Main landing gear too
All assembled in dryfit
Made the vortex generators and the missing trim
Added an extra exhausts and various antenna's
And the wings top... Pretty big aircraft in the end
Basic white, the light blue for the composite must still be added to the lower wing surface...
Basic white, the light blue for the composite must still be added to the lower wing surface...
broken off tailpart glued
and sanded and touched up, still needs a cote
unpainted underside, only the base, needs some more fading...
unpainted underside, only the base, needs some more fading...
screws installed
wheels installed
Decal at the side of the hull is to long..
And not a bit
But it is getting somewhere... These needed 3h to apply ( only 12 decals)
Some piece of decal loosend and got lost in space, time to find some corresponding paint
Props painted light grey
Thinned the gear doors, painted 'em gunmetal and added black strips to replicate carbon
Added tail markings
Complete overview, very small box for such a large aircraft
1/72 next to a 1/48 spitfire
Comments
29 September 2017, 06:48
Burkhard DNo, but a lot of patience, filling, sanding and dry-fitting required 😛
30 September 2017, 06:37
Bart GoesaertThat's the best way to tackle this one... A lot of dryfitting, scraping and sanding. Busy with placing the windows... Precision sanding ahead
30 September 2017, 07:34
Bart GoesaertReworked the complete nose and back... Only landing fear and some details left before painting
11 November 2017, 10:58
Alec KWow, looks like this one is a LOT of work. It may qualify as "scratch-build" or "carve-build" by the time you are done 🙂
11 November 2017, 12:32
Spanjaardi agree with Alec. looking forward final product that i am sure will be great
11 November 2017, 13:06
Gordon SørensenLooks great, Bart. The amount of work you have put into this is going to pay off in the end...
12 November 2017, 00:20
Bart GoesaertThx mates, I hope it wil pay off, landing gear from the kit is totally fictious, a bit in doubt about making a new one or mounting it in flight
12 November 2017, 13:10
David ThorAmazing plane and nice progress on a difficult kit it seems. Building it in flight would be an option for a plane, that could fly around the entire world. 🙂
13 November 2017, 20:34
Bart GoesaertRebuilt the totally fictious landing gear, added some copperwire for additional strength
18 December 2017, 19:28
Bart GoesaertAlmost done with details, one vortexplate fell off it seems and the tail antenna still missing
23 December 2017, 07:48
Łukasz GlińskiRespect for that vortex generators, must have been a patience test 🙂
23 December 2017, 20:47
Bart GoesaertThx, it went a bit faster then anticipated, but a slightly wet stick to pick these up and place them was a big help...
24 December 2017, 10:42
Burkhard DThe kit seems to be based on an early artist impressionrather than the real aircraft. I see you already made most of the corrections. I am not far behind on mine. 🙂
16 February 2018, 12:37
Bart GoesaertI think the only things missing are the antenna at the back of the non-steering rudder, and the wires for the steering rudder, correct me if I'm wrong. The gear-well doors are already single pieces instead of two pieces, haven't found any reference of how these looked or what color these gearwells had. I think the front gear door was some kind of aluminium color, and the main gear doors were white. I hope to finish the gears this weekend, and be able to start with the decals... Do you post pictures of yours here?
16 February 2018, 13:07
Burkhard DThere are fairly complete walkarounds available aircraftwalkaround.h../voyager/voyager.htm
primeportal.net/hang..l_76_voyager_n269va/
I see some of the images in your album. I've made notes on the colors as far as I have established them, I'll get back to you on the weekend. The gearwell color is a mystery to me, but I assume the "roof" is bare metal and the fuselage interior is bare CFRP (brownish anthracite). Adding primer or paint to these compnents would have been unneccessary weight. You can see that the undersides of the wings and the canards were only partially painted, and with a very thin coat only.
There's also a dorsal radome on one of the booms that needs to be added.
16 February 2018, 13:23
Bart GoesaertSeems what I thought was aluminium is carbonfibre, together with some creme as in a PUR-casting. the blue on the underside I thought of doing is more a faded dark grey. Control rudders seem white on top and seems like doped linen color below
16 February 2018, 16:31
Burkhard DI wager the control surfaces are honeycomb sandwich with glass fiber face sheets, usually brownish or yellowish. White coat on top is essential for UV-protection and to keep the epoxy from heating up in sunlight.
I found that Amodel put the nose landing gear wheel well too far forward. Not sure I go the extra mile to correct that.
Generally the kit seems to capture the Voyager as it was rolled out, but not the record flight configuration. Ailerons should have a slightly deeper chord than the wing trailing edge.
17 February 2018, 14:41
Bart GoesaertThx, small disaster yesterday, the cat jumped the model off the table, 1 tail fin broke off, together with some paint and the attachments of the front wings... hopefully it won't be that hard to repair...
20 February 2018, 11:59
SpanjaardThanks is a different type of carpet monster 😉
Good luck, hopefully easy to repair.
20 February 2018, 16:44
Bart GoesaertStarted decalling, they breakfasts, so the initial 20 went up fast to 100 pieces... These 12 decals took 3h of puzzling
24 February 2018, 08:36
Lost_ErikLooks like the 3 hours of decal puzzling was worth the struggle. Your repair look good too. Did you overcoat the decals with micro-decal-film or similar?
24 February 2018, 16:45
Bart GoesaertAdded the gear doors, some more details, will be finished soon...
28 February 2018, 06:20
