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| Skyediamonds1985, Image # 36422 | 24 Jul 16 16:33 |
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| Skyediamonds1985, Image # 36421 | 24 Jul 16 16:33 |
Using pin vice to drill hole to help reinforce the stubs to the engine |
| Skyediamonds1985, Image # 36420 | 24 Jul 16 16:31 |
Super glued and starting to take shape |
| Skyediamonds1985, Image # 36419 | 24 Jul 16 16:30 |
Cutting short lengths of smaller sized plastic tubing to attach the manifold to the engine. If you can zoom up, the small piece already cut has been filed round to help fit to the larger plastic tubing. |
| Skyediamonds1985, Image # 36418 | 24 Jul 16 16:28 |
For exhaust manifold, the S.E. 5 has a prominent feature. Cut a length of suitable sized plastic tubing and covered the end with Spackling compound. |
| biplane guy, Comment for image # 36355 | 15 Jul 16 09:09 |
| Your catalog of sources for gadgets and gizmos to be repurposed never ceases to amaze me. Doll houses, who would have thunk? |
| BriandKilby, Comment for image # 36355 | 15 Jul 16 07:21 |
| like the detail skyediamonds! |
| Skyediamonds1985, Comment for image # 36355 | 14 Jul 16 15:47 |
| For those who might be interested, the small hinges near the bottom of the front fuselage are from MicroMark's. They're usually for doll houses, but work wonders for us biplane modelers. |
| Skyediamonds1985, Image # 36357 | 14 Jul 16 15:29 |
Here, you can see that the (now) reduced size can easily fit inside the tubular bead. But in order to make room for the "holding wire" coming out of the struts, I had to cut off much of the end of the plastic. As you can see from comparing the length of the bead and allowances for both the plastic and wire, doesn't really give much strength to this joint. As all things in life, one must consider giving up something in order to gain a desired goal. So the rigging is obviously non-functional and somewhat weak in exchange for the convenience of being able to attch the ends of the rigging and slide them in adjusting tension. |
| Skyediamonds1985, Image # 36356 | 14 Jul 16 15:22 |
Despite the seemingly tiny cross section of the half-round plastic strips used for rigging, it was still too large to fit over the small beads used as turnbuckles. To use larger beads would have made everything out of scale. To reduce the cross section, I used heat to stretch out the ends . The lighter was taped for photographic purposes. |
| Skyediamonds1985, Comment for image # 36355 | 14 Jul 16 15:18 |
| Working from inside out, starting with the gun sight and internal rigging to the fuselage. As noted in my previous post on the 11th, I should point out there are advantages and disadvantages to this method of rigging. The advantage: is that you can "slide" the turnbuckle beads up and down the pre-installed wires to help adjust the tension to the rigging as well as giving the turnbuckles something to hold. |
| Skyediamonds1985, Image # 36355 | 14 Jul 16 15:15 |
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| Skyediamonds1985, Image # 36346 | 11 Jul 16 23:55 |
Aldis gun sight assembled |
| Skyediamonds1985, Image # 36345 | 11 Jul 16 23:54 |
Internal wiring |
| Skyediamonds1985, Image # 36344 | 11 Jul 16 23:53 |
A slightly more flexible way to install turnbuckles and wires to struts |
| Skyediamonds1985, Comment for image # 36301 | 04 Jul 16 19:47 |
| I moved from L.A., Calif. to Reno, NV. Long story made short, rats got to it, before I could hang it up from the ceiling out of harm's way. Thank you for the compliment. It was featured in Scale R/C Modeler February 1981 in a ten-page article. It was the last biplane model I made over 30 years ago. Took time out for raising the family. The Guilow's PT-17 was my first model since then. |
| rgood, Comment for image # 36301 | 01 Jul 16 11:34 |
| Amazing! |
| jgood, Comment for image # 36301 | 01 Jul 16 09:23 |
| Lovely looking Swordfish. What happened to it?! |
| Anders, Comment for image # 36301 | 27 Jun 16 23:23 |
| Been watching that site for years now, so many good plans. But also you should mention the sister site with complete modellers books. Getting bigger each day :) |
| Skyediamonds1985, Image # 36301 | 27 Jun 16 21:46 |
Good evening guys. Just wanted to share a bit of good news. I'm sorry for posting this Swordfish biplane. Its over 30 years old and long gone. I wanted to share with you a plan service that's all FREE. It's got over 6,000 plans. Called: Outerzone.co.uk I'm sure some of our senior members would know, but thought you'd like to see anyway. |
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