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| LASTWOODSMAN | Herr Engineering HRR 105, Fokker D-7 | Parked | 30-Apr-17 20:06 |  | | Views : 255 | | The laminated Prop Carving Block is freed up from its clamping prison, and squared up to 220 grit sandpaper. The next step is to drill a perpendicular center pin hole, trace some outllines from 0.0035" thick (22 pound) opaque Vellum tracing paper sheets. and transfer the outlines to the block. |
| LASTWOODSMAN | Herr Engineering HRR 105, Fokker D-7 | Parked | 29-Apr-17 12:03 |  | | Views : 327 | | BACK TO THE DRAWING BOARD !! - I will cut it all out, sand it, glue raw tissue onto the plane, then shrink it and clear it, the normal way - but first, my 10" X 1 1/2" X 1/2" laminated prop carving block is dry after being glued and clamped up for a week - prop carving and sanding fun coming up !! |
| LASTWOODSMAN | Herr Engineering HRR 105, Fokker D-7 | Parked | 29-Apr-17 11:57 |  | | Views : 243 | | The pics show how awefully horrendous it looks on the plane. A DISMAL FAILURE ! At least I gave it the "old College effort" . |
| LASTWOODSMAN | Herr Engineering HRR 105, Fokker D-7 | Parked | 29-Apr-17 11:54 |  | | Views : 248 | | After all that work, I glued it on anyway (an exercise in futility), and tried to stretch it out flat, and reshrink it, to no avail. |
| LASTWOODSMAN | Herr Engineering HRR 105, Fokker D-7 | Parked | 29-Apr-17 11:50 |  | | Views : 252 | | When I cut the finished tissue out of the jigs after a few days, it shrunk into a homogenious, rippled, shrivelled, and wrinkled "Orange Peel" texture, from not being stretched taught, as it was stretched perfectly taught while in the jigs. |
| LASTWOODSMAN | Herr Engineering HRR 105, Fokker D-7 | Parked | 29-Apr-17 11:46 |  | | Views : 223 | | RIGHT STAB TISSUE REPAIR - My original intent was to try to match the red and black tissue on the plane, by shrinking and clear coating a red and a black tissue panel in jigs first, then cut it out and just glue it on. |
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| LASTWOODSMAN | Herr Engineering HRR 105, Fokker D-7 | Parked | 27-Apr-17 12:20 |  | | Views : 313 | | The laminated prop carving block is all glued up and clamped with two larger outside 1/8" thick clamping protection bare balsa sheet plates. There should be thick grain lines of alternating bronze and burnt sienna colors with enough bare balsa between them to accept red "Cabernet" wood stain after prop carving and sanding - I hope ... |
| LASTWOODSMAN | Herr Engineering HRR 105, Fokker D-7 | Parked | 27-Apr-17 12:12 |  | | Views : 265 | | The planks are being white glued and stacked - the bronze side face of one plank is glued to the bronze side face of the next plank, and the burnt sienna side face of one plank is glued to the burnt sienna face of the next plank etc etc - the glue should dry invisible. |
| LASTWOODSMAN | Herr Engineering HRR 105, Fokker D-7 | Parked | 27-Apr-17 12:07 |  | | Views : 274 | | The planks and many clamps are ready, plus two 1/8" thick larger "bare" blasa plank/sheets for protection of the lamination planks from the clamp teeth. |
| LASTWOODSMAN | Herr Engineering HRR 105, Fokker D-7 | Parked | 27-Apr-17 12:02 |  | | Views : 257 | | Completed "repair" tissue on jigs, D7 plane, and completed prop lamination planks ready to glue together - Bronze Metallic on one face of the plank, and Burnt Sienna Gloss on the other side of the plank - three layers of brushed on acrylic |
| LASTWOODSMAN | Herr Engineering HRR 105, Fokker D-7 | Parked | 26-Apr-17 20:49 |  | | Views : 284 | | Speaking of snakes, I caught one of these "Fox Snakes" bare-handed 50 yrs ago when I was 10. It was 6 feet long and 6" in diameter, trying to slither away fast up the far bank of the creek near our house - I instinctively poounced on him right away with a good firm grip on his neck just behind the head as I held him down with my foot. He coiled right up my arm like the constrictor he is, and I brought him into the kitchen to freak out my mom ... then let him go. |
| LASTWOODSMAN | Herr Engineering HRR 105, Fokker D-7 | Parked | 26-Apr-17 11:24 |  | | Views : 291 | | After I broke the rubber on the Cabinaire from too many winds, I just put the plane on the shelf and went to bed. I snapped awake in the middle of the night, with the sudden realization, that that bunched up tightly wound knot of rubber in the back of the fuse, could explode at any time, and take out my other models on the shelf ! I got up and started to cut it out, and it was striking out and snapping at me and the plane, like an angry, coiled up, DIAMOND BACK RATTLESNAKE !! - trying to do more damage right to the very end ... I have 4 fuse tissue panels to replace. |
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