Wingnut SE5a in progress

[mgtaylor]

The Sword Fish is a HUGE Kit. And the PE is Precut and Measured. The PE RAF Wires you are custom trimming to fit. As well none of the Lenghts required for the SE5 Wings I think should come close to the Long Swordfish Wings. I dount you'll have any "Sag" later.

Yours mIke

[nigelrayner]

Originally Posted by Wienne

BTW the guy (Radub) now also has PE anchoring points and plates.

Thanks for the info! I'll be getting some of these as well.

Cheers,

Nigel

[bobs_buckles]

Here is the link to the wire terminals.
1/32 British Wire Terminals [RB-P32013] - €6.50 : RB Productions Store, Scale models and accessories by Radu Brinzan

Enjoy!

Bob

[Trackpad]

Hi, Bob,

Already ordered mine, but "you da man" when it comes to cables and turnbuckles!!

[bobs_buckles]

... and here I was thinking I can have a rest...

[Trackpad]

We're just glad that you do what you do, my friend!

And now, back to Kofoed's SE5a!

[Doug Baumann]

about the hing finish one side closed and the other open to show off the motor Doug

[Kofoed]

Thank you very much, guys.

Nigel, I use the turnbuckles partly because it looks as if there is “something to hold the wires and partly to ease the mounting. It’s quite easy to glue the wires to the eyes of the buckles. I use 1/32 buckles, but I’m sure you can use 1/48 also.
I think I’ll do the same with the engine hood.

Bob, are you saying you had a WNW SE5a, and sold it?
To second Trackpad, we’re just glad that you do what you, my friend.

Mike, I’m not sure either, but I have decided to put my trust to Wingnut and do what they say in the instructions. It’s hard for me to find this documented elsewhere, the only thing I have is a table in my 1½ Strutter Datafile, and that is somewhat earlier than the SE5a. However, on the photographs in my Squadron SE5a it looks as if Wingnut is correct.
Yes, you have to upload your pictures to a web host to show them here.

Nico, I’m sure they will turn out fine.

Pez, you don’t have to worry too much about this method.

Wienne, I had the same thoughts. But I don’t think we shall have to worry. The expansion coefficient for stainless steel is 0.017 mm per meter per degree. If I mount these in a 25 centigrade athmosphere (it’s summer here), the largest temperature change will be 5 degrees both ways maximum. And the longest wire is appr. 13 cm. This gives a theoretical expansion/contraction of 0.011 mm.
I’ve had a Tamiya Swordfish built for several years, and my wires aren’t sagging.

Trackpad, thanks for the input.

Doug, thanks for your splendid idea. I don’t know, though, whether it’s too late. I have fixed the upper wing and put on some wires in between the center section struts…..

Until next update,

Cheers
Kofoed

[Kofoed]

Hi there,
Another small update.

I’ve got the upper wing in place and the wiring is in progress. I’ve mounted the exhausts after finishing the center-section wiring.



The wires are wonderful, but quite tricky to get into place. By the time I ordered these wires, the attachment points weren’t ready, and I decided to mount mine onto Bob’s Buckles.

The incidence wires between the center-section struts are quite easy, the ones going to the fuselage are not!



The incidence wires between the interplane struts are a pice of cake. I simply (and carefully) filed a small flat area on the inside of the protruding ends on the struts onto which I mounted the wires.



So far I have, as you see, the rear sets of double flying wires mounted. These are quite tricky and very time consuming to mount. I found out that the easiest way for me is to glue one end to the lower buckle with CA, and then carefully bend the buckle with the wire on until the upper end fits onto the upper buckle and then glue that.



Until next update,
Cheers

Kofoed

[Pez]

That's really coming alive, looks fantastic

Was there any rigging work you needed to do before attaching the top wing?