Maurice Farman M.F. 11, Scratch-Build In 1/72, In Progress - Page 3

Old Man · 23 July 2008, 11:41 AM

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Originally Posted by Doug Baumann

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

Do you have a link for that, Sir? I had no idea Flight was available on line. I have some reprints of articles by them in old 'Cross and Cockade' numbers, and they are hugely informative.

Old Man · 23 July 2008, 11:44 AM

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Originally Posted by guitarlute101

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

Mark

Thank you very much, Sir! I am glad you like it. These things do have an awful lot of wires, but they go on one at a time, and individually, each one is not so difficult.

Matt_Bittner · 23 July 2008, 05:53 PM

OM, this is by far your best. While I really liked the recent 'tweener you finished (sorry, can't remember the type) this one surpasses that and your earlier efforts.

Excellent job!!

Doug Baumann · 23 July 2008, 10:09 PM

here is the flight link Browse Flightâ€™s archive of Historic Aviation i love the old flight mags thay have a lot of detail some times

Old Man · 28 July 2008, 04:14 PM

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Originally Posted by Matt_Bittner

OM, this is by far your best. While I really liked the recent 'tweener you finished (sorry, can't remember the type) this one surpasses that and your earlier efforts.

Excellent job!!

Thank you very much, Mr. Bitner! I appreciate your kind words a great deal.

The last project was a Vickers Vincent, and unfortunately it is not completed, but still needs a smattering of small detail. A move interuppted the build, and I wanted to get on with something new. Its day will come, however....

Old Man · 28 July 2008, 04:15 PM

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Originally Posted by Doug Baumann

here is the flight link Browse Flightâ€™s archive of Historic Aviation i love the old flight mags thay have a lot of detail some times

Thank you very much, Sir! I have been poking around in that as time permits: it is fascinating.

Doug Baumann · 28 July 2008, 08:37 PM

your welcome .there is a lot of good stuff, but watch out for misidentifed air craft like the FOKKER M5 as EI and all Albatros aircraft are fighting Albatros even the BI.. If your looking for a air craft look several mounths or a year down the road its when ever they capture a plane. no info on the ALB DIII alot on the DI and DVa and i hope there is a lot on your model?

Doug Baumann · 28 July 2008, 08:42 PM

how do you form the fuselage mold and vac u form or spoon {burnish} it???

Old Man · 28 July 2008, 08:52 PM

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Originally Posted by Doug Baumann

how do you form the fuselage mold and vac u form or spoon {burnish} it???

It is fabricated, Sir, from styrene sheet. Basically it is an open-topped box. The curved area in front of the cockpit started as a laminate cube, that was filed and scraped on the outside and inside to a thickness of roughly a half millimeter. The curved areas behind the cockpit are sheet rolled to a curve and held in shape by their glued edges. I know nothing of carving wood, and have developed techniques to avoid having to....

Old Man · 28 July 2008, 08:57 PM

Here is an 'almost done' series, Gentlemen....

Since these pictures, I have rigged the vertical tail pieces, and done the last of the control runs to elevators and rudder. What remains is aileron rigging atop the upper wing, a propellor, and an eteve air-speed indicator.

With the continued benevolence of the modeling gods, this should be finished tonight....