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A built Vario MD 900 kit (by Vario)
The real thing in UK Air Support Colours
I have proceeded with the cockpit after scouring the web looking for
pictures of the MD900 cockpit, which are few and far between.
One point that I have noticed is that the centre console is almost
always painted grey, although the instrument panel remain black in
most cases, but not all.
The panel provided by Vario is the older style panel with
individual instruments (not a glass cockpit), so I am trying to get
it to match the older style colour scheme.
I also managed to find some nicely curved GRP that will
make a front's piece to go forward from the instrument pod to the
nose. It curves down perfectly over the front, and I have added two
grilled access holes to it as well.
The instrument panel has now been fitted permanently to the
centre console, and it is all being filled and sanded ready for
painting. The main panel will be black, the top will be white, and
the centre console grey, as per the prototype.
I have also been working on the seats, which I have to say
are quite messy to build, but they are coming along fine, and should
be finished in a couple of days, ready for painting and finishing.
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One pilots seat after the first
"rough" pass with filler to seal and pad the gaps.
I hope to do the seats with black outside and light grey
seat pads as most prototypes seem to use that colour
for the seating. |
October 15, 2009
I managed to get around to drilling out the access holes in
the vertical and horizontal tail surfaces ready for the navigation
lights. I then fed the lights and wiring thru the horizontal
stabilizer and out of the vertical fins, so now we have a RED LED
sticking out of the left, and a GREEN LED sticking out of the right
ends (taped over to ensure they didn't get any over spray over them)
and then applied 2 coats of lacquer to both sides of the horizontal
stabilizer.
Now I need to cut a reasonably large access hole in the top
of the boom where the horizontal stabilizer is mounted so that I can
find a home for the electronic control PCB that is fitted
immediately before the light leads separate. I am hoping to be
able to mount that unit inside the tail section there, and then run
the rest of the wiring back along the boom towards the cockpit.
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This is the horizontal
stabilizer with the wiring already fed through the access
hole in the centre and out through the ends, so they are
ready to go through the vertical stabilizers and be fitted
into the neat plastic LED mountings provided by Vario. |
| Here is the wiring seen from
the top of the horizontal stabilizer/ The stabilizer has
been lacquered, and once thoroughly dried, the LED mounting
will be fitted where you see the wires coming up from, and
the LED pushed up into it as a final fitting.
We have decided to put the while LED on
top here, and will place the RED flashing beacon on the
underside of the boom opposite this one. |
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The Vario navigation light set is quite nicely done, but
the leads are only just long enough to allow the LED's to be fitted
where they should be as per the prototype. The kit provides 1
RED , 1 GREEN, 1 FLASHING RED (beacon) and 1 WHITE (non strobe) for
the rear of the aircraft. The McDonnell Douglas service
manuals that I have managed to get access to show that you have the
choice of having either the white LED or the flashing red beacon on
top and the other under the horizontal stabilizer. The RED and
GREEN lights are obviously mounted on the left and right sides
respectively, centrally on the vertical fin in line with the
horizontal stabilizer.
Then there are a further 1 RED and 1 GREEN LED for mounting
on the front left and right sides of the main fuselage respectively.
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| Shown above are
one of the vertical fins with the LED mounting hole drilled,
plus the cut out that allows you to push the horizontal
stabilizer into them very firmly and then fill it with UHU
EndFest to fix them on permanently.
The vertical fins are still in a very
early base colour coat in case you were wondering ! |
Finally, I
also managed to get all of the top covers in their final coats of
yellow, although they still have to be lacquered for the final
finish. You can also see that I have started adding the wire
mesh to the various vent apertures. The meshes are NOT going to be
painted on this aircraft.
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It's all getting there, slow
but sure..... |
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