roger.alli

Hi Rainer,

Thanks for sharing. Like others here, I can only marvel at your work. I could not guess at how you made that seat so realistic, even the fabric looks scale.

Please keep posting your progress, and should you care to share how you create these parts, I would love to know..

Roger

mr_matt

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Rainer your work is fantastic and an inspiration. If you don't mind me asking how do you fabricate the flat sheet parts? Are they laser cut or etched or something?

Please keep posting these wonderful pictures, I really enjoy them.

DavidR

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If I remember correctly the 8611, 8711's won't fit in the aileron pockets, a little too wide.

Greg Wright

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Hey David i was able to shoe horn the 8911HV'S into my aileron pockets. So with a little work the 8711 will fit.

sleepless.ch

The rear seat is almost finish. There's still a little to be done (parachute bag with harness, handgrip lock lever and seat belts).
Pics of progress follow soon.

Rainer Willisch

mr_matt

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good lord

jetpilot

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um, thats ridiculous!

wojtek

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beautiful work !

~V~

dubd

That is amazing! Makes my factory BVM seat look like it's made by Fisher-Price.

sleepless.ch

1) The body is done from 1mm composite plates (the rounded back plate is 0.5mm because 1mm is to stiff to bend).
The bar at the back site is a fillerpainted balsa strip. To bending a nice radius the wood have to be a little wet.

2) The tirangle wood sticks makes a symetric building of the head cushion very simply & quick.

3) The "anodized" screw nuts are mill from a2mm composite plate. Painted silver and then blue transparent. The finish painted nuts wipe with
a cloth (drenched in silver color) for the vintage effect. The pipes are donewith 1mm messing tubes (soft anneal with a burner & painted after bending).

4) At this piece was the challenge, to become a "realisitc look" of the pipe/arch. Just bending or buckling a wire gives not a scale effect and looks sh***. (The pics shows how doing).

5) To "rape" the very small innocend decals need a little courage but it's necessary for the authentic look. Also a perfect brushed radio call no. 948 with sharp lines
kills the real look. Here was the trick, to adhere the stencil very softly. For the soft adhesion and the cloudy letters ipainted first the stencil at the adhesive side very very thin with filler.
The same for lettering at the seat belts (The high of the letters is 2mm).

By the way: The seat cushion is done with thin foam rubber & a pentax lens cleaner cloth.

Kelly Rohrbach

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Un*****ingreal.

I bow to your greatness!!!!!!!

Greg Wright

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++1

mr_matt

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Man it is like seeing alien technology explained

sleepless.ch

Thanks for all the compliments and the motivation, i can need it (more than 50 working hours just for the frontinstrument panel what is smaller then a credit card and it's not done.I didn't know, how grazy i am)

Rainer Willisch

mr_matt

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Rainer are you using EL lighting? How do you cut the bezels?

Please keep posting!

roger.alli

I suspect Rainer might work at CERN. His parts must be the result of a nuclear science experiment!!

Seriously Rainer. Amazing work using traditional materials. (No 3D printing).. Please keep posting photos and your techniques. (Not that I could attempt to emulate.)

Roger

sleepless.ch

The carbon panel has almost the size of a credit card and is milled with a 1mm cutter.
The lightnig are leds (not finish installed).

by the way: after 3 1/2 month waiting and more then 10 weeks of delay, my F-100 kit was delivered this week.:-)

turbomike

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Great work Rainer. The panel & the ejection seat look awesome!

DAN AVILLA

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Gary I can fix that problem. I have a nother F100 I,m thinking of selling. It was the late Rich Fongs plane. I added alot of scale details. It is sitting with presto partialy done. Dan Avilla

FliteMetal

Gary,

Following up on your Flite-Metal order delivery. Did you receive it yesterday? Tracking report indicated it arrived. Hope it was
not hidden like an Easter Egg around your lawn somewhere UPS thefts are up this year...people following along behind UPS
delivery trucks...

Wonderful hot section preparation! You and Greg have that art down to a science.

Rainer...That is an excellent idea that I think I will use in our B-47's. I need only print instruments on transparency then do a
sandwich within panel with LEDs behind. We have large format color instruments in the pilot trainning manuals.

Merry Christmas to everyone...

sleepless.ch

The elevator is covered with flite-metal and ready to weathering.
The number of rivets (3012) and screws (548) and the correct position are like the full size F-100 and absolutly scale.

sleepless.ch

At the time i make the the speedbrake with the scale hydraulic system

sleepless.ch

The zylinder is selfmade and work well. The clevis i produce later from aluminium.

sleepless.ch

Actually i make the hatches. The quicklooks are scale and are function

AndyAndrews

Beautiful work! Thanks for showing us your techniques. Also, I really enjoyed speaking to you at the JWM. Maybe we will see you in Germany?