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| LASTWOODSMAN, Comment for image # 41815 | 06 Feb 20 09:35 |
| This is also full of great instructions, and an easy first time at trying this style of rigging, this way through the wings. |
| LASTWOODSMAN, Image # 41815 | 06 Feb 20 09:33 |
And this laser cut Dumas Fokker EIII is a simple example of "through the wing" rigging. |
| LASTWOODSMAN, Image # 38045 | 28 Feb 17 15:45 |
The wax paper came off easily - that is a new pilot in the jig now - the one just finished is in front leaning on a block - now a very strong and solid pilot with a flush base plate epoxied to the inside of the pilot body bottom. |
| LASTWOODSMAN, Image # 38044 | 28 Feb 17 15:40 |
I then pulled out the round head pins from the underside, BEFORE dismantling the jig. |
| LASTWOODSMAN, Image # 38043 | 28 Feb 17 15:37 |
I pinned a little extra pressure on top of the pilot head to hold everything in place while the glue dried. |
| LASTWOODSMAN, Image # 38042 | 28 Feb 17 15:35 |
I brushed on 5 min Epoxy glue onto the bottom inside edges of the plastic pilot, and them stuck him onto and over the edges of the balsa base plank, the pilot bottom being flush with the three jig plank flat surface. |
| LASTWOODSMAN, Image # 38041 | 28 Feb 17 15:28 |
The jig plank holding the pinned pilot base and wax paper, is pinned into the space on the jig between the two other planks, and now the base plate will not move. The three jig planks form a flat plane for the bottom edge of the pilot to sit on. |
| LASTWOODSMAN, Image # 38040 | 28 Feb 17 15:22 |
This is the side the pilot will sit on - the pin tips just stick out a little bit into the free space of the pilot body. |
| LASTWOODSMAN, Image # 38039 | 28 Feb 17 15:20 |
JIG SET UP for glueing a balsa pilot base plate, to the inside of a plastic pilot - I pinned the jig plank, wax paper, then the balsa pilot base plate together, pinning in from the jig plank side, at small angles, to hold the pilot base plate securely to the jig plank, while the glue dries. |
| Don C, Comment for image # 38028 | 27 Feb 17 23:24 |
| Nothing will beat Helmut Kopf! |
| LASTWOODSMAN, Comment for image # 38028 | 27 Feb 17 12:35 |
| I will research some real famous WW1 pilot names. |
| John M Oshust, Comment for image # 38028 | 27 Feb 17 11:59 |
| They require names. If not named they become sad and do not fly with Zest and Zeal! Zest and Zeal were third cousins of Orville and Wilber🤣 |
| LASTWOODSMAN, Image # 38031 | 27 Feb 17 11:03 |
If you have a small scale plane, Easybuilt has a good selection of different scale pilots with different designs http://www.easybuiltmodels.com/spare.htm . Pilot 2 and 3 go into my 1:20 scale BE2e (one for the pilot and one for the gunner/observer), and either 4 or 5 will go into my 1:14.7 scale "Herr" Fokker D7. The 4th pilot is very detailed and overlapps easily because it is only 9 thou thick, and glues up easily with Easybuilt, good tack and quick drying, white "Sobo" glue. |
| LASTWOODSMAN, Image # 38030 | 27 Feb 17 10:52 |
Three bottom base planks left to install. First pilot needs a frontal bib extention downwards into the fuse as the rear of the pilot has to sit a little back on top of the fuse - I will hide the line with cockpit combing. |
| LASTWOODSMAN, Image # 38029 | 27 Feb 17 10:47 |
The 4rth pilot from the left has the bottom plank glued flat into the pilot base. |
| LASTWOODSMAN, Image # 38028 | 27 Feb 17 10:44 |
I decided to make pilots for all of my WW1 models for their empty open cockpits. I carved out a balsa plank base for inserting flat into the 4th pilot from the left, after first sanding the bottom of the pilot flat and even on a flat sheet of sandpaper. |
| LASTWOODSMAN, Image # 38027 | 27 Feb 17 10:27 |
Sorry - I deleted this by accident. 1st PAGE OF US BUILT PROPS This site http://www.woodenpropeller.com/Photo_Gallery.html shows the beautiful variations in early propeller design and has great color photos and multiple views of real WW1 and earlier antique propellers showing the wood, the grain, the cladding, the markings, the decals, who built them, what wood they were made of, the size, and what engines and planes they were used on, with lots of info on each prop. Just click on each prop. From the Bahnson Propeller Collection. |
| Don C, Comment for image # 38015 | 23 Feb 17 10:02 |
| Better to have too much than to little. Impressive start. |
| John M Oshust, Comment for image # 38015 | 22 Feb 17 20:04 |
| Gracefully the air screw winds itself thru the atmosphere, pulling its aero-plane into flight. |
| LASTWOODSMAN, Comment for image # 38015 | 22 Feb 17 19:36 |
| But the "Helice Eclair" in the picture has a much narrower blade where it comes off the hub, and the paddle of the blades needs to be narrowed and shaped better also. It is oversize in length also, so at least I have wood to work with. |
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