Where Have All The Kits Gone ?
#955
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B25 and b17 are built and im keeping both of those. My 2nd b17 is enlarged 150% to 9'8". Www.outerzone.co.uk has all the plans for free. The templates to scratch the are listed right on the plans
#961
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I built my first model aeroplane, a Keil Kraft Ajax, about 57 years ago. Since then I've built thirty or more models from kits, plans and plan-packs as well as rescuing lame dogs and other people's unfinished projects. However, the Baron 1914 is the first model I've ever built where only one wing-half is shown on the plan. Nowadays you can take the plan to Office World and have a mirror image printed but traditionally we smeared the underside of the plan with paraffin, kerosene in American palance, and hey presto, you've got the other wing-half.
That's exactly what I did this afternoon using white spirit. It smells a bit but does the job. Pictures show the port wing under construction. The slots in the wing ribs are an extremely tight fit on the spars. To speed things up I have used cyano glue to build the wing which is a first for me.
That's exactly what I did this afternoon using white spirit. It smells a bit but does the job. Pictures show the port wing under construction. The slots in the wing ribs are an extremely tight fit on the spars. To speed things up I have used cyano glue to build the wing which is a first for me.
#962
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Funny you should mention that when Erick Richard started selling the plans to his father's 1/4 scale Globe Swift design one thing he did was include a mirror copy of the wing plan so you would build each wing on top of it's own sheet. He is still trying to get cowling production back up after moving and building a new shop. He is a astrophysicist or something to that affect in Boulder working on projects for NASA. It seems like NASA is trying to work him to death.
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[TD="class: alt2"] Having decided to reduce the dihedral I had to make up two new plywood dihedral braces; these are shown below the original brace supplied with the kit. Except for the joint with the wing rib at the end of the brace, I have decided not to cut slots in the brace to produce a housing(?) joint as per the original kit, but to simply butt-join the centre section ribs to the dihedral braces using slow-setting epoxy. If I add gussets to the joint, bearing in mind that the centre section is fully sheeted, I feel sure that be strong enough.
To increase the glueing area I filled the space between two main hardwood spars with scrap balsa.
The wing ribs in the centre section are arranged in four pairs which I have glued together using aliphatic glue.
Having glued the dihedral braces to the starboard wing half and having allowed the slow setting epoxy to dry all day, the two wing panels were then clamped together while the epoxy set overnight. The space between the braces was then filled with scrap 4mm (3/16" )balsa. This has resulted in a dihedral of about 2.2cms or a little under an inch, under each wing tip. Is everybody else's building board as untidy as mine?
I am leaning towards finishing the model in a WW1 Russian scheme and using the original overly large fin and rudder supplied with the kit. I quite fancy a skull and cross bones on the back!
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[TD="class: alt2"] Having decided to reduce the dihedral I had to make up two new plywood dihedral braces; these are shown below the original brace supplied with the kit. Except for the joint with the wing rib at the end of the brace, I have decided not to cut slots in the brace to produce a housing(?) joint as per the original kit, but to simply butt-join the centre section ribs to the dihedral braces using slow-setting epoxy. If I add gussets to the joint, bearing in mind that the centre section is fully sheeted, I feel sure that be strong enough.
To increase the glueing area I filled the space between two main hardwood spars with scrap balsa.
The wing ribs in the centre section are arranged in four pairs which I have glued together using aliphatic glue.
Having glued the dihedral braces to the starboard wing half and having allowed the slow setting epoxy to dry all day, the two wing panels were then clamped together while the epoxy set overnight. The space between the braces was then filled with scrap 4mm (3/16" )balsa. This has resulted in a dihedral of about 2.2cms or a little under an inch, under each wing tip. Is everybody else's building board as untidy as mine?
I am leaning towards finishing the model in a WW1 Russian scheme and using the original overly large fin and rudder supplied with the kit. I quite fancy a skull and cross bones on the back!
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#968
Something like this http://www.modellversium.de/galerie/...flashback.html
#971
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Picture of the wing joined together and removed from the building board, awaiting centre section sheeting, cutting out of ailerons and further diagonals. The wing in the bag is from a 6ft, (180cms) Telemaster 40.
Tail surfaces pinned to plan waiting for the glue to dry. One day I'll buy a full set of modelling pins but I was always brought up to be cautious with money so until my stock of dressmaker's pins is exhausted I'll use a hammer to drive them into the building board and a pair of pliers to remove them! .
Tail surfaces pinned to plan waiting for the glue to dry. One day I'll buy a full set of modelling pins but I was always brought up to be cautious with money so until my stock of dressmaker's pins is exhausted I'll use a hammer to drive them into the building board and a pair of pliers to remove them! .
#972
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Picture of the wing joined together and removed from the building board, awaiting centre section sheeting, cutting out of ailerons and further diagonals. The wing in the bag is from a 6ft, (180cms) Telemaster 40.
Tail surfaces pinned to plan waiting for the glue to dry. One day I'll buy a full set of modelling pins but I was always brought up to be cautious with money so until my stock of dressmaker's pins is exhausted I'll use a hammer to drive them into the building board and a pair of pliers to remove them! .
Tail surfaces pinned to plan waiting for the glue to dry. One day I'll buy a full set of modelling pins but I was always brought up to be cautious with money so until my stock of dressmaker's pins is exhausted I'll use a hammer to drive them into the building board and a pair of pliers to remove them! .
My CRS is kicking again! Did you ever finish this airplane? I thought you had said something about it in another thread.
Mike
#973
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Not a great deal of progress I'm afraid. I've been promoted Chief Flying Instructor (Mode 2) at my club and have been given an ARTF trainer to use to teach novices with. I have also just bought a house, so time is limited. Furthermore the original method of actuating the elevator by closed loop had too much friction so it's back to the drawing board with that one.