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| edtherenderman | Scratch Built Bugatti 100P | Build | 27-Dec-21 18:14 |  | | Views : 188 | | Work continues! Spent last five days working on the plane. Redesigned and 3D printed the transmission because the original would not fit in the plane the way I wanted. Designed and photo printed gauge faces for the dash, installed and put clear epoxy over them to create the glass faces (see above). Almost all interior parts are painted. Cut and fitted the two canopy pieces. And wet sanded the aircraft exterior. I ran out of rubbing compound, and since it snowed here yesterday, I’ve been pretty much stuck in the house. So I figure next weekend will be my opportunity to finish detailing the fuse. After that, it’s installing all the parts, final fitting, etc. Getting close to done! |
| edtherenderman | Scratch Built Bugatti 100P | Build | 24-Dec-21 11:37 |  | | Views : 269 | | Canopy with |
| edtherenderman | Scratch Built Bugatti 100P | Build | 24-Dec-21 11:37 |  | | Views : 238 | | What it looks like after hot material is formed over Buck. |
| edtherenderman | Scratch Built Bugatti 100P | Build | 24-Dec-21 11:36 |  | | Views : 286 | | I bought myself a Christmas present after trying to 3D print clear canopies, a hobbyist vacuum former! This one has a 6” X 6” surface although you can’t really go that large. I’m finding 4” to be about max. The former is pretty simple: 1) Put 20 mil TPE plastic between the two halves of the Material Frame, which are held together with magnets. 2) Place the Material Frame under the Heater. Magnets will hold it in place. 3) Turn on the heater. 4) Wait until the material sags about 1.5”. This takes about 10 minutes. 5) Place Buck on Grill. 6) Turn on Vacuum. 7) In one quick motion, push Material Frame down onto the Buck / Grill. Vacuum will suck hot material around the buck. This was probably overkill, but I figure I do enough scratch building that something like this will be handy! |
| edtherenderman | Scratch Built Bugatti 100P | Build | 20-Dec-21 09:25 |  | | Views : 302 | | Port side view. |
| edtherenderman | Scratch Built Bugatti 100P | Build | 20-Dec-21 09:24 |  | | Views : 367 | | Bottom View |
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| edtherenderman | Scratch Built Bugatti 100P | Build | 20-Dec-21 09:24 |  | | Views : 228 | | The Bugatti got its first coat of blue paint this weekend. Need to let it set up for a couple of days, rub out a couple of runs, then give it a final coat. Also need to paint all the control surfaces, probably over the Christmas holiday. It’s great to see the model at this point. Getting close to finishing this one. Another long build! |
| edtherenderman | Scratch Built Bugatti 100P | Build | 12-Dec-21 19:55 |  | | Views : 169 | | Another image with gear open. |
| edtherenderman | Scratch Built Bugatti 100P | Build | 12-Dec-21 19:55 |  | | Views : 153 | | Gear open |
| edtherenderman | Scratch Built Bugatti 100P | Build | 12-Dec-21 19:54 |  | | Views : 169 | | Put a couple of solid weekends into the Bugatti. This weekend was spent sanding (more on that later) and working on the landing gear. This picture is the gear retracted with the lower covers closed. I 3D printed the covers, wheels and wheel trunnions. Hydraulics are done with copper tubing and paper wrapped and glued with CA. |
| edtherenderman | Scratch Built Bugatti 100P | Flying | 14-Nov-21 19:49 |  | | Views : 233 | | This is the buck for heat forming the canopy. 3D modeled and printed on FDM printer with Polysmooth. |
| edtherenderman | Scratch Built Bugatti 100P | Build | 14-Nov-21 19:47 |  | | Views : 224 | | 3D modeled and printed the spinners and propellers. These are just press fitted at this point and still have some fitting to do, but the results look good. Spinners were done with my FDM printer using Polysmooth filament. The propellers were done with my SLA printer. |
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