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pfinn, Image # 1344825 Jul 09 04:23

Getting to the final shape.
pfinn, Comment for image # 1343624 Jul 09 21:42
And hey Poppy, I think you take the "Gand prize" for Balsa block carving projects at the moment!
poppy, Comment for image # 1343624 Jul 09 18:36
This is why I work in the garage. Otherwise I would spend all my time cleaning up to keep the peace.
David Duckett, Comment for image # 1343624 Jul 09 18:31
Yes, but for one brief moment it's Camelot.
pfinn, Comment for image # 1343624 Jul 09 18:25
Used to get in trouble for doing this in the house. Well, here's one advantage of getting older (plus the wisdom in knowing you sure as shingles better clean it up before "She" see's it)!
David Duckett, Comment for image # 1343624 Jul 09 16:24
Messy to some perhaps, beautiful to me.
pfinn, Image # 1343624 Jul 09 16:03

After gazing at John O's beautiful prop for the Stearman, I got the hankerin' to break out the ol' whittlin' knife for the exhast fairings.
wingspanner, Comment for image # 1340423 Jul 09 18:26
Beautiful work
pfinn, Image # 1340423 Jul 09 03:44

Exhaust Nozzle detail. Used the same .005" Al for the Faux turbine blades. Made a forming die and squeezed the bejeevs out of it against some 1/16" Bass in my machine vise. If someone plans to build one of these (umm... Jerry maybe?) I've got some extra blade thingees. I could send in the mail. The Dia. of Al + paper roll = the hole laser cut in F7A & F7B.
pfinn, Image # 1339122 Jul 09 03:42

Found some nice reference on the engine that was to propel this aircraft.
pfinn, Image # 1339022 Jul 09 03:40

Since I had my machines setup after finishing an unrelated project I started making some components for the jet exhaust nozzles. Still need the tubes, support vanes and faked turbine blades.
hjlittman, Comment for image # 1336220 Jul 09 13:45
I'll see if I can find them. They were hand drawn, a couple of years ago, from one of the reference drawings on Luft '46 for a local club cookup. I'll have to scan them when I find them. Since I never actually built the model I can't guarantee that it will go together the way that I drew it or that it will fly.
jerry campbell, Comment for image # 1335220 Jul 09 04:28
Really doing a job on this 46er. Keep those pics coming!
pfinn, Image # 1336419 Jul 09 22:16

I've been playing around with some thin .005" aluminum sheet metal forming to make a one piece exhaust duct. This is the first play effort and it looks promising. Overworked it though without annealing so it cracked. Plus I did it with what I had on hand (get a good laugh at the "Tools" I used, but hey, it worked, surprised me!). Sorry, used the part for a glue tray, hence the stick stuck.
pfinn, Comment for image # 1336219 Jul 09 19:20
Yes Luft "46 is quite a cool site as well. Where was the "Cook-up" may I inquire? Or could you post the plans. I for one would like to see them!
hjlittman, Comment for image # 1336219 Jul 09 19:12
There is also more information on this one at the Luft '46 site. http://www.luft46.com/bv/bvp170.html I worked up drawings for a multi-engined rubber powered cookup, but didn't get the chance to build it.
pfinn, Image # 1336219 Jul 09 16:24

BV-170. There's about 40 BV designs as well as other aircraft and vehicles here:http://www.the-blueprints.com/frontpage/ Many are just o.k. but to get a good reference for general shape and perusing for ideas.
jgood, Comment for image # 1335219 Jul 09 15:50
That is looking fantastic, Phil.
pfinn, Comment for image # 1335219 Jul 09 11:57
Nosforatu.
Heinrich Dorfmann, Comment for image # 1335219 Jul 09 10:19
Ja ja, those Blohm&Voss P planes ... projects which were never realized. The one I like best is the B&V P-170 "Schnellbomber", another plane David might want to google for. Somewhere George Lucas had to get his inspiration for the pod racer .... :-)
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