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| mlriley540 | Scratch Built Dewoitine D.520 | Build | 04-Oct-17 19:30 |  | | Views : 767 | | I just did a few 50-60 wind flights in my yard, hit the sidewalk once but just a small scuff that I fixed. |
| mlriley540 | Scratch Built Dewoitine D.520 | Build | 04-Oct-17 19:28 |  | | Views : 689 | | Had to add a trim tab, stuck on with a glue stick. Removable. With just a little trim it fles quite straight. |
| LASTWOODSMAN | Herr Engineering HRR 105, Fokker D-7 | Parked | 03-Oct-17 22:27 |  | | Views : 922 | | Closeup of the two sizes, and two colors, of bolt heads on the two bolt circles on the prop hub, with one dressmaker's pin in the middle of the hub. The bolt heads are not exactly perfectly located, but, it was the best I could do. |
| LASTWOODSMAN | Herr Engineering HRR 105, Fokker D-7 | Parked | 03-Oct-17 22:23 |  | | Views : 944 | | Here is the finished prop, with that 90 degree bend of the prop shaft glued into the recessed trough in the propeller face behind the prop hub, and the removeable nose block, all assembled to the prop. |
| LASTWOODSMAN | Herr Engineering HRR 105, Fokker D-7 | Parked | 03-Oct-17 22:12 |  | | Views : 951 | | Here I started putting in the silver smaller Dressmaker's pins. I centered the hub with a pin in the middle and then 2 more pins. I then drilled small 0.025" holes through the hub holes and into the prop wood, but not too far. Then I cut the pins short so as not to go through the other side of the prop. Then I used needle nose plliers to start inserting the 0.023" diam pins into the predrilled holes, then pushed the heads of the pins down the rest of the way, even with the hub face. I did not even need to use any glue - the last part of the pin shafts went through undrilled balsa. |
| mlriley540 | Scratch Built Dewoitine D.520 | Build | 03-Oct-17 20:57 |  | | Views : 733 | | I may add some more detail to the markings. |
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| mlriley540 | Scratch Built Dewoitine D.520 | Build | 03-Oct-17 20:57 |  | | Views : 713 | | I did glide test it, it does glide. Will try to fly it. |
| mlriley540 | Scratch Built Dewoitine D.520 | Build | 03-Oct-17 20:56 |  | | Views : 719 | | Painted the markings, that went well. |
| mlriley540 | Scratch Built Dewoitine D.520 | Build | 03-Oct-17 20:55 |  | | Views : 702 | | Had trouble spraying a light matte finish, ended up very course finish. Had to brush a thin coat to fix it. It's just OK. Pass-able texture. |
| LASTWOODSMAN | Herr Engineering HRR 105, Fokker D-7 | Parked | 03-Oct-17 11:08 |  | | Views : 919 | | Six large bolt heads are in, and six smaller bolt heads to go. Starting to look like a prop hub! |
| LASTWOODSMAN | Herr Engineering HRR 105, Fokker D-7 | Parked | 03-Oct-17 11:05 |  | | Views : 927 | | Here I have started to put in the larger brass coated Escutcheon pin heads into the prop hub to simulate bolt heads. I used side cutter pliers to snip off the shaft below the head, to just under 1/16" length so that they would not protrude past the 1/16" balsa plate of the hub. I made a little tool, at the bottom right, from a piece of file folder cardboard. I cut a little slot in the cardboard for the short pin shaft to sit in, with the head of the pin sitting on top of the file folder cardboard. I held the cardboard, lining the pin head up with the hole in the prop hub, then pressed on the head to push the short shaft into the hole, and then slid the cardboard out. It was a snug fit and i didn't even need any glue. |
| mlriley540 | Scratch Built Dewoitine D.520 | Build | 03-Oct-17 08:02 |  | | Views : 394 | | More painting, almost done. |
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