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Browse Images Virtual Aerodrome Image Browser ( Small / Large ) Show : All | Parked | Flying | Build | Aerial | Reference Page (5 in total) :  1  [ 2 ]  3   4   5  [ < Prev ] [ Next > ] Hangar Aircraft Category Date Preview edtherenderman Cleveland Westland Whirlwind Build 30-Mar-22 11:21 Views : 279 Gear fully retracted in the Nacelle. Looking down into the top of the nacelle. edtherenderman Cleveland Westland Whirlwind Build 30-Mar-22 11:20 Views : 220 Gear doors closed. Doors where created using the piece cut out of the nacelle as a buck, then vacuum formed styrene over the buck. The styrene was supper thin and flexible, so I built up the insides with many layers of tissue and EZ-Dope. The outsides where filled with spackling compound, sounded, tissued, doped and painted with sanding primer. I still need to add small magnets to keep the doors together when closed. edtherenderman Cleveland Westland Whirlwind Build 30-Mar-22 11:19 Views : 219 Inside of nacelle looking down. You can see the hinges for the gear doors. The tee pins will be replaced with hinge pins before installing the nacelle on the wing. edtherenderman Cleveland Westland Whirlwind Build 30-Mar-22 11:18 Views : 223 Did not estimate that it would take over a month of weekends and evenings to get the landing gear sorted, but here it is. Starboard landing gear down. edtherenderman Cleveland Westland Whirlwind Build 14-Mar-22 10:56 Views : 245 Close up of the lettering on the tire. The plastic appears a little pink which is a reaction to the ultraviolet light it takes to cure the resin. The longer you let it “cook” the more pink it gets. Leave it in long enough and it takes on the deep skin pink color that the old William Brothers scale plastic pilots have! edtherenderman Cleveland Westland Whirlwind Build 14-Mar-22 10:52 Views : 258 Tire/Wheel halves printed. Each took 6.25 hours! Not very fast, but the detail is pretty good. I could print these as one piece but there is so much cleanup and filling to do once the support structures are removed that it is easier to print as two pieces and glue together. Hangar Aircraft Category Date Preview edtherenderman Cleveland Westland Whirlwind Build 13-Mar-22 18:29 Views : 258 Fully retracted from the top. edtherenderman Cleveland Westland Whirlwind Build 13-Mar-22 18:29 Views : 310 Fully retracted edtherenderman Cleveland Westland Whirlwind Build 13-Mar-22 18:28 Views : 227 Gear partially retracted. edtherenderman Cleveland Westland Whirlwind Build 13-Mar-22 18:28 Views : 217 Gear fully down from the top as if looking into the engine nacelle. edtherenderman Cleveland Westland Whirlwind Build 13-Mar-22 18:27 Views : 209 The landing gear is another engineering challenge. I was able to find an original drawing of the landing gear configuration, which was really helpful. I didn’t understand how the supporting struts worked until I found it. So I spend several evening trying to create the struts using brass and copper tubing, but realized I could 3D print them with enough detail and strength to work. I had already cut the gear doors out of one of the nacelles and was able to use that as a rig. After getting everything working, I created a test rig out of bamboo skewers for to build the other side. Here is the gear in fully down position. edtherenderman Cleveland Westland Whirlwind Build 25-Feb-22 14:37 Views : 230 Have also worked on 3D modeling the wheels and tires for the Whirlwind. I think these would work for a Mosquito too. They look very similar. This was done in blender and I will use my SLA Printer to print them as two halves. Page (5 in total) :  1  [ 2 ]  3   4   5  [ < Prev ] [ Next > ]