Builds By Baz

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WIP Continued

 

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This is purely freestyle. No drawing or plan, just start glueing stuff together, make random shapes in pairs and forget about rules and proportions. 4.5 hours of playing with scrap wood and a box of junk. When I get some time and energy, I'll add more to it and paint it.

 

[Mackka]

Amazing!

 

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It's been a while.

After a massive purge of social media and extraneous hobbies, I've been able to focus on the Viper.

I've taken the port wing off, put the Viper up on it's dolly trolleys and now it pushed around the shed at the slightest touch. The starboard wing is now fabricated and waiting for a block of time where I can do the final shaping and sanding on it. I've also got the starboard wing on saw horses, where I can concurrently shape and sand it's underside.

The landing gear has got a fresh primer coat on it, as the bare steel was starting to flash-rust.

The rest of the ship has been filled in with loose/broken panels, gaps and alignments and sanded in readiness for fibreglassing. All the fibreglassing materials are now here.

I drilled the 30mm bore in each cannon end and mounted the second cannon. This week I have also been working late nights on electrical and lighting. There is a new 80 amp power supply in the back end to run all the studio and sub woofer speakers in the engine nacelles, as well as the motor drive for the turbines and the lighting in the rear thrusters.

Cockpit instruments are all retro-fit with LED lighting to the instruments.

I reckon between kids and job, I am a mere few weeks away from fibreglassing the hull.

I'm mostly on Facebook with the WIP now, so come and say hello. https://www.facebook.com/groups/240486113096646

Back to it.

Cheers, Baz.

 

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Here's a video.

 

[user 22230]

Here's a video.

Honestly one would swear to christ that thing will fly Once again some skilled hands and eye for detail you have Baz . Admiration for your skill sets

 

[Jaros]

Are you going to have some interactive audio built into the design - like a 787 warming up etc--I reckon it would really sell.

 

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Are you going to have some interactive audio built into the design - like a 787 warming up etc--I reckon it would really sell.

I did mention above, studio speakers, amplifiers and subwoofers.....

 

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[Mackka]

Very cool Baz.

 

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Finally got around to updating the website.

https://www.buildsbybaz.com/engine-lighting-and-sound/

 

[Phil8303]

Finally got around to updating the website.

https://www.buildsbybaz.com/engine-lighting-and-sound/

I envy your fabrication and build skills, Baz. Brilliant!

 

[Jennifer]

OMG, you should be in Sydney in the props dept for Fox.

 

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Updated wings progress.

https://www.buildsbybaz.com/wings/
Facebook for those that use it. https://www.facebook.com/groups/240486113096646

 

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Nav-lights fitted and powered up. Made some antennae out of shed scraps.

Welded a rigid bracket up to support the monitors from behind - bolted to the frame now.

 

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Started fibreglassing.

https://www.buildsbybaz.com/fibreglassing-the-hull/
https://www.facebook.com/groups/240486113096646

 

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I've got one wing fully fibreglassed and am now starting on the other. I've also added a steel finishing band around the end of the nacelle, which will tighten over the wet fibreglass once it is laid over the join, to hide the transition and pull it all together.

The canopy rescue handle in the show was varied, depending on which season it was shown. The plain sticker looked cheap, the Suzuki motorcycle tank fuel cap is too recognisable and doesn't make sense, so I decided to fabricate my own out of sheet aluminium and some socket head cap screws.

 

[RM Outback]

Brilliant work Baz you sir are very talented

 

[Manpa]

Brilliant work Baz you sir are very talented

X 100.

 

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Thanks guys. I just want to inspire others to build their dreams.

Baz.