Maurice Farman M.F. 11, Scratch-Build In 1/72, In Progress

[PetarB]

Oh wow!
A new thread to watch out for, looking forwards to seeing the scratchbuild, and you're well on your way!
Regards, Petar

[Doug Baumann]

nice work there as one scratch builder to another LOOKING FORWARD FOR MORE

[Doug Baumann]

Were did you get the plans????

[Old Man]

Originally Posted by Doug Baumann

Were did you get the plans????

Several sources, Sir.

I began with the drawings in my old Harleyford Reconnaisance and Bomber Aircraft, 1914-1918 volumn. I later received a copy of Mr. Ian Stairs' drawing of the type. I acquired a photo-copy of a handbook on the type printed in 1916 from the World War One Aeroplanes people, that has many useful technical sketches. There is also a trove of material on-line at Arizona models, here:

Aircraft

By the way, no two plans agree on a number of points, particularly the angles of the tail-booms. I wound up doing a scratch drawing that 'looks right' to me for those....

[Old Man]

A good deal of progress over the last two weekends, Gentlemen. This is pretty close to done.









The tail-booms are not the original pieces above: I had got it in my head they were of wood, but finally noticed just before assembly they were made of steel tube. I had to make new ones out of round rod to replace the square section pieces I had prepared.

[Old Man]

[Dan_San_Abbott]

Old man:
This is a real fine piece of work. 1/72 scale, my original thought it was 1/32 or 1/24 scale. Really beautiful.
Blue skies,
Dan-San

[Doug Baumann]

did you try the old war time Flight mags free down loads of pdf???i seen it there

[guitarlute101]

Excellent work, really impressive. The rigging is awesome. Thanks for posting pics.

Mark

[Old Man]

Originally Posted by Dan_San_Abbott

Old man:
This is a real fine piece of work. 1/72 scale, my original thought it was 1/32 or 1/24 scale. Really beautiful.
Blue skies,
Dan-San

Thank you very much, Mr. Abbott! You are very kind towards my efforts here.

I was a jeweler as a younger man, and the fingers remember tiny things. If I ever go truely mad, I will reconstitute my old bench tool-set and start making these in silver. I fear if I tried working in larger scales I would never get anything done, because I would try and do too much. In 1/72, you can do things by suggestion that would require more precise representation if they were half again or twice or three times as large.

I was looking through your galleries here last night, by the way, and am sorely tempted to a get an Albatross DIII kit and do one of the early 1917 examples you have shared, the three color scheme one. Your contribution to our community is fantastic, and though my interest is more in Allied types, I greatly appreciate it.