RE: morane-eindecker thingy
 

Since I starting scale building I find myself starring at the oddest things in the world. When I'm driving I find I'm checking out the exact way that the rubber part of the mud flaps on the truck in front of me are attached and the exact pattern of the rust on the tailpipe...

As I've said other places and will now say again, I'm certain that the key to scale modeling is "depth of vision" -- you simply can't model what you haven't noticed.

RE: morane-eindecker thingy
 

I was looking at some detail photos of a restored aircraft......Wow. Unevenly spaced rivets, missing rivets, tail skid tied up with rope or chain, landing gear bungee just wrapped for looks and not in the right place.....An accurate scale model of that airplane would be non-functional, just as the museum airplane is!! But it would be accurate!!!

Randy

RE: morane-eindecker thingy
 

well here it is....

RE: morane-eindecker thingy
 

I got discouraged and did not post any pics for a long time... it has taken nearly a year since I started making the plans for this model.
Here are some (random) pics:
1) showing the servos in the wings and uper pylon with eyebolts.
2) covering the fuselage.
3) all the panels are removeable.
4) Last is a closeup of the tail skid.

RE: morane-eindecker thingy
 

That is a nice looking plane sir. I like that black outline. Your work and this thread will be very helpful to me as I do a 1/4 scale eindecker. How long before the maiden ? I skimmed through the thread but could not find the scale. What scale is it? I ask because I'm ttrying to determine how long my Elll will take. I was figuring about 1 1/2 years . Good luck and thanks ahead of time for solving some of my problems.

RE: morane-eindecker thingy
 

Thankyou for your kind comments Feep. The scale is 1/8th. The Pfalz company was quite faithful in duplicating the [link=http://ajbs.com/Anglais/MuseeGB/Morane-H-UKHtml/Morane-H-Master-UK.htm]Morane prototype[/link] but I have taken some liberties. But i'm please with how it all turned out, although i have been getting in a sloppy hurry lately.

The test flight will be tomorrow... weather permitting. Hopefully, there will be no wind - having no steerable tail-wheel thingy, the demonstrated cross wind component of this aircraft is pretty much... zero!

The monkey ... is ready; the cat, well, mostly indifferent.

RE: morane-eindecker thingy
 

Good luck. I'm sure we'll all be holding our collective breath.