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| pfinn | Shortys Basement BV-215 | Build | 07-Aug-09 14:36 |  | | Views : 997 | | Clean up the unaffected areas and make replacement parts. During this repair I also became the official armorer (repair man) for a large scale "Khight" battle going on between my son and his friends. 7 swords, 2 staffs,3 heads, and 2 hands. Definately not a nice day in "Camelot"! |
| pfinn | Shortys Basement BV-215 | Build | 07-Aug-09 14:29 |  | | Views : 709 | | The Surgery. Amputate afflicted members. |
| pfinn | Shortys Basement BV-215 | Reference | 05-Aug-09 10:47 |  | | Views : 727 | |
| pfinn | Shortys Basement BV-215 | Build | 03-Aug-09 02:25 |  | | Views : 763 | | Lesson learned. Check above the place one sets a model for precariously perched heavy objects. They may decide to jump and ruin your day! Wing rebuild time. Already fixed the fuselage damage. |
| pfinn | Shortys Basement BV-215 | Reference | 02-Aug-09 03:54 |  | | Views : 822 | |
| pfinn | Shortys Basement BV-215 | Reference | 02-Aug-09 03:54 |  | | Views : 853 | | Everytime I visit my Dad's I seem to find something squirreled away in some forgotten box from my distant past. These predate the Gypsy Moth I built. |
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| pfinn | Scratch Built Holiday | Reference | 27-Jul-09 13:44 |  | | Views : 1352 | | Hello scirocco14. Here's my $.02. This looks strikingly similar to what happened to my "Holiday" fuselage (actually my plane looks like this since this came first!). Here we go. The red and green lines represent the side frames to be built first. Note that the top stringer is straight! The green vertical formers' lengths are measured from the angled lines on the cross sections to define the bottom stringers curvature. The side view on the plan is the fuselage is a depiction of the completed fuse therefore the verticals are "Forshortened" (not perpendicular to the view). After building two side frames use crossmembers measured from the cross sections (F#'s) to build the fuse. See on the side view that the aft portion of the fuse curves up? This happened to me while making the Holiday quite by accident. By changing the cross section from nearly rectangular to trapazoidal to triangular, one is forcing the top stringer to travel further. But since it is already at a set length it will pull the rear of the fuse in an upward curve like a canoe. I'd leave the stringers long on the tail-end and trim after the vert fin position is determined. Don't use my little sketch as a plan cause I just "Eyeballed" it to give visual reference. Get ready for some compound angle miter sanding on those crossmembers! He He! But seriously, this should make a really sweet fuselage. Hope this helps, and moreover, hope it works! |
| pfinn | Shortys Basement BV-215 | Build | 27-Jul-09 04:15 |  | | Views : 782 | | Gusseteering. |
| pfinn | Shortys Basement BV-215 | Build | 27-Jul-09 04:14 |  | | Views : 762 | | Joined the wings to the fuselage. Needed to move the main spar position to make room for the radio gear. Used a 3/32" x 1/4" spruce stick tapered to 1/8" at the outermost end with a center scarf joint. 1/64" ply reinforcement. |
| pfinn | Shortys Basement BV-215 | Reference | 26-Jul-09 02:21 |  | | Views : 848 | | Whoo Hee!! Scored a sack of shorts and seconds in spruce for a song. Super spar stuff, surely..... Sorry, couldn't help it. 12" to 18" L , 1/8"sq to 1/4" x 5/8". |
| pfinn | Shortys Basement BV-215 | Build | 25-Jul-09 04:34 |  | | Views : 937 | | Nose job. |
| pfinn | Shortys Basement BV-215 | Build | 25-Jul-09 04:33 |  | | Views : 849 | | Phew, they fit!...Alien Owl from beyond Space! |
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