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Here are some shots of the 1:48 Eduard Eindecker I finished yesterday. This is the older kit, not the newer one.
Don Stauffer in Minnesota
Really nice build Don! Like the photo set-up too!
One question. What did you use for the rigging? Looks great.
Jim
Main WIP:
On the Bench: Artesania Latina (aka) Artists in the Latrine 1/75 Bluenose II
I keep hitting "escape", but I'm still here.
But....how can that thing fly.............there's only one wing !
Very nice work on that kit.
Did you use after market wire wheels?
FWIW:
A few years ago I saw a program which showed wind tunnel tests on an Eindecker model; results were that it was a very dangerous aircraft to fly due to the wing design
Very nice build! Great job on the wood finish on the prop. Nice rigging and finish marks on the metal work.
Mike
WOW Don, that is really really nice. Super nice work there. It looks real !!
On the bench:
A lot !! And I mean A LOT!!
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Wheels were in the kit. Kit builds any of four aircraft, only one of which uses the wire wheels. The rigging is gray cotton nylon stranded (not monofilament) thread. I prefer this for stranded steel wire. I cannot get gray in sizes as small as I would like. I have found some 5 mil white, and am doing experiments now in trying to dye it gray. Stranded steel wire soon weathers to gray.
Beautiful job, Don!
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Great looking build Don. I do like the look of the bare metal over the engine.
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On the bench: Airfix 1/72nd Harrier GR.3/Fujimi 1/72nd Ju 87D-3
Fine job, Don. Thanks for the photos.
Every time I look at one of those stringbags, I always marvel at the bravery of the guys that flew them! It reminds me of when I was a kid and went on a field trip to see Perry's flagship in Erie, PA. I remember climbing aboard and thinking, "They went out onto the Great Lakes on this, AND shot at each other? Someone could get seriously hurt!" Multiply that by ten for the pilots who climbed into early aircraft and shot at each other---without parachutes, no less!
On the bench: 1/350 Trumpeter HMS Dreadnought; 1/350 Academy USS Reuben James FFG-57
Breathtaking work there, Don! I especially like the "worm" pattern on the bare metal. How did you achieve it?
Greg
George Lewis:
Excellent work and a great backdrop too.
Too many models to build, not enough time in a lifetime!!
gregbale Breathtaking work there, Don! I especially like the "worm" pattern on the bare metal. How did you achieve it?
I painted the panels first with Testors Matt Aluminum. Then I shook well a bottle of gloss silver. I cut the end of a sharp ended round toothpick back to make about a 1/16 inch diameter end. I put the cap of the bottle down on bench upside down. A small film of paint sticks to the inside of the cap. By dipping end of toothpick in that paint I pick up enough to make small dots.
The idea that the original planes had engine turning is a myth because restorers did not want to use labor-intensive hand scraping like original. Hand scraping is a random pattern, not the regular pattern of engine turning.
Chad
God, Family, Models...
At the plate: 1/48 Airfix Bf109 & 1/35 Tamiya Famo
On deck: Who knows!
Fantastic Don. I'm still trying to tackle a WW1 Sopwith Camel for the GB going on... So many planes...y'all know the rest. =]
Tamiya F4U-1 Kenneth Walsh
Don,
Wonderful job! Did you just superglue the nylon thread? I'm about to build my first WWI airplane and thinking about riggings gives me a headache.
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That is just beautiful, very nicely done!
Groot
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I did the rigging two ways. First time I just glued the rigging to the turnbuckles (PE pieces) and joined them all at the kingpost, again CA glue. I did the top first. To do the bottom I put down two blocks on bench surface, and laid fuselage down on them with kingpost in gap between them. But I accidently bumped the model up against one of the blocks and bent the kingpost! I was unable to bend to bend it back with proper tension on the threads and broke it off. I used CA debonder to remove all the threads, and glued the kingpost back on the cowl, starting over again.
I was so worried about breaking those turnbuckles (I bent them several times during the first attempt) and it was so difficult to rig that way that I resorted to my old technique. I drilled a tiny hole adjacent to each turnbuckle assembly. Then I fasted a long piece of thread to landing gear structure and ran it through the wing, over the kingpost, back through the hole in other wing, and tied it off on LG next to starting knot. Much easier. Then, I merely bent the turnbuckle to lie along the thread and put a little CA there. The CA merely holds the turnbuckle along the thread, but takes none of the tension. Only took four (long) pieces of thread that way, not the sixteen pieces the way I was doing it at first.
I am a WWII aircraft modeler but I must admit I admire this Eindecker of yours Don. Looks real!
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