Another of my projects is the B-Wing fighter. It has been on the way for more than two years now.
When starting a project I always makes blueprints, also on this project, but I did something else too. I needed to find some of the right kit parts before I could finish them. The upper and lower wings are from a F/A18 Hornet airplane which i had to purchase first. The rest is more or less scratchbuilding.

Another thing I realized were that a VACUUM MACHINE was nessesary to complete the plating, so I build myself a simple machine that actually works great. I will use this in future projects thats for sure.

The engine have I build in two halfs, and the only reason for that, were cuz I was too lazy and also due that both halfs are more or less identical. 24 nov. 2004

 

The wood stick will provide stability to the model. 11 dec 2004

The engine half is made entirely of styrene, with the correct modelkit part added.

 

An inside view of the engine. The engine half is build up upon ribs cut in shape as shown. I have use thin styrene and added several layes. Thin styrene is easier to bend.

When I showed my good friend a picture of the engine half, he said, I wont want too, so it was cast. Here are the two halfs

  

The two halfs glued together. The structure will work as the models mounting point. It needs to be strong to give the whole model a solid foundation.

The main wing is done in two halfs. Don't know why I first did it like that, might have been cuz of the center mounting rod. 03/08/04

  

As you can see here, have I made them in balsa wood covered in styrene. Balsa is quick to sand into shape. I like to work with balsa, when forming the rough shape. 03/08/04

The two wing halfs is glued together.

 

 

The wing mount. Made of a combination of RenShape and styrene.

 

This part is the "droptank" part which sits at the uppersit site of the two flap wings.

The wing mount

 

test fitting the wings