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Browse Images Virtual Aerodrome Image Browser ( Small / Large ) Show : All | Parked | Flying | Build | Aerial | Reference Page (5 in total) :  1   2   3   4   5  [ < Prev ] [ Next > ] Hangar Aircraft Category Date Preview edtherenderman Cleveland Westland Whirlwind Build 14-Mar-22 10:56 Views : 209 Close up of the lettering on the tire. The plastic appears a little pink which is a reaction to the ultraviolet light it takes to cure the resin. The longer you let it “cook” the more pink it gets. Leave it in long enough and it takes on the deep skin pink color that the old William Brothers scale plastic pilots have! edtherenderman Cleveland Westland Whirlwind Build 14-Mar-22 10:52 Views : 221 Tire/Wheel halves printed. Each took 6.25 hours! Not very fast, but the detail is pretty good. I could print these as one piece but there is so much cleanup and filling to do once the support structures are removed that it is easier to print as two pieces and glue together. edtherenderman Cleveland Westland Whirlwind Build 13-Mar-22 18:29 Views : 219 Fully retracted from the top. edtherenderman Cleveland Westland Whirlwind Build 13-Mar-22 18:29 Views : 274 Fully retracted edtherenderman Cleveland Westland Whirlwind Build 13-Mar-22 18:28 Views : 188 Gear partially retracted. edtherenderman Cleveland Westland Whirlwind Build 13-Mar-22 18:28 Views : 181 Gear fully down from the top as if looking into the engine nacelle. Hangar Aircraft Category Date Preview edtherenderman Cleveland Westland Whirlwind Build 13-Mar-22 18:27 Views : 177 The landing gear is another engineering challenge. I was able to find an original drawing of the landing gear configuration, which was really helpful. I didn’t understand how the supporting struts worked until I found it. So I spend several evening trying to create the struts using brass and copper tubing, but realized I could 3D print them with enough detail and strength to work. I had already cut the gear doors out of one of the nacelles and was able to use that as a rig. After getting everything working, I created a test rig out of bamboo skewers for to build the other side. Here is the gear in fully down position. edtherenderman Cleveland Westland Whirlwind Build 25-Feb-22 14:37 Views : 205 Have also worked on 3D modeling the wheels and tires for the Whirlwind. I think these would work for a Mosquito too. They look very similar. This was done in blender and I will use my SLA Printer to print them as two halves. edtherenderman Cleveland Westland Whirlwind Build 25-Feb-22 14:35 Views : 243 Work is slow on the Whirlwind. I’ve been doing more 3D modeling to develop the ends of the engine nacelles. They are attached to the flaps and drop down with them, so I had to modify the model by added a new former to each nacelle and removing the ends. Now the plastic nacelle ends will meet right up with the rest of the nacelle when the flaps are close. I’m also working on infilling. This is by far the most tedious part of modeling! I love the finish, but really had the infill part. And, with such a big model and a fuse with two engine nacelles, there is a lot of infill! I’m going to need to build a WW1 model next just so I can get a break from infill! edtherenderman Cleveland Westland Whirlwind Build 06-Feb-22 15:05 Views : 204 Bottom view with flaps open. Note that the Whirlwind had flaps that went all the way across the wing and fuse, so there is a section on the fuse that drops too. edtherenderman Cleveland Westland Whirlwind Build 06-Feb-22 15:03 Views : 212 Bottom view with Flaps closed. edtherenderman Cleveland Westland Whirlwind Build 06-Feb-22 15:01 Views : 184 Top view with Flaps extended Page (5 in total) :  1   2   3   4   5  [ < Prev ] [ Next > ]