Subject: Re: "Tools 'N' Tips" - Aluminium Foil for Jet engine exhausts
From: "Submissions for ARC" <[email-masked]>
To: "Ladopoulos Yiannis" <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2007 15:57:35 -0800

Hi,
I just wanted to let you know your article went on ARC today.  Thanks again for sending it in.

Steve Bamford
Aircraft Resource Center
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  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Ladopoulos Yiannis 
  To: [email-masked] 
  Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2007 5:01 AM
  Subject: "Tools 'N' Tips" - Aluminium Foil for Jet engine exhausts

  Hello from Athens - Greece,

  This is a simple idea for enhancing the image of the inner side of jet engine exhausts.

  Best regards, Yiannis

  PS Say hi to your family. Is everbody ok there? The girls? 

  PS2 Hopefully in the next I will have two more F-5 for the Gallery session..

  Aluminium Foil for Jet engine exhausts

  by Yiannis Ladopoulos
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        Steve Bamford will insert full sized version of photo 01.jpg here 

   

  Well, aluminium foil seems to be a common material for in-scale scratch building.

  Tins from tinned foods can also provide us with thicker foil, commonly used for seat belts etc.

  In this case this kind of foil is used for enhancing the image of the inner side of some types of jet engine afterburners. The initial idea came as I was trying to find a way to build details for a Mirage F1 ATAR engine exhaust.

  Though the following pictures are pretty self-explanatory, I would like to mention that the lighter is used to initially straighten the surface (check 2a, 2b). 

  Depending on the thickness of the toothpicks you can achieve various sizes of curves in order to match your case in the appropriate scale (check 3a, 3b).

   

  I would be glad to hear that you may find it useful!

  Regards, Yiannis

  Photos and text © by Yiannis Ladopoulos