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| edtherenderman | Aero-Werkes AW 11601 - Hannover CL IIIa | Build | 30-Mar-20 10:50 |  | | Views : 443 | | Closeup of rear rear bank of cylinders, carb and duel mags. |
| edtherenderman | Aero-Werkes AW 11601 - Hannover CL IIIa | Build | 30-Mar-20 10:49 |  | | Views : 352 | | Top view showing rocker arms. Each was individually printed and installed. Push rods are 22 gauge wire. |
| edtherenderman | Aero-Werkes AW 11601 - Hannover CL IIIa | Build | 30-Mar-20 10:48 |  | | Views : 321 | | Other side f engine with water input lines. Exhaust headers not installed. |
| edtherenderman | Aero-Werkes AW 11601 - Hannover CL IIIa | Build | 30-Mar-20 10:47 |  | | Views : 313 | | Argus III engine assembled and painted. Left side is thrust end. |
| edtherenderman | Aero-Werkes AW 11601 - Hannover CL IIIa | Build | 23-Mar-20 10:48 |  | | Views : 349 | | I also modeled and printed all the parts for the interior. Parts include: Seat, fuel tank, yoke, radio, radio antenna spool, camera, camera plate holder, fuel pump, rudder bar, rudder bar firewall insets, three switches for the dash. |
| edtherenderman | Aero-Werkes AW 11601 - Hannover CL IIIa | Build | 23-Mar-20 10:43 |  | | Views : 312 | | Rear power take-off, many rocker arms and coolant pipes |
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| edtherenderman | Aero-Werkes AW 11601 - Hannover CL IIIa | Build | 23-Mar-20 10:42 |  | | Views : 364 | | Intake and Exhaust Manifolds and magnitos |
| edtherenderman | Aero-Werkes AW 11601 - Hannover CL IIIa | Build | 23-Mar-20 10:41 |  | | Views : 309 | | Cylinders and Carbs |
| edtherenderman | Aero-Werkes AW 11601 - Hannover CL IIIa | Build | 23-Mar-20 10:41 |  | | Views : 304 | | Argus III engine block assembled. I needed to do some filler in the front where the 3D print partially failed. |
| edtherenderman | Aero-Werkes AW 11601 - Hannover CL IIIa | Build | 23-Mar-20 10:40 |  | | Views : 403 | | Been a trying time over the last few weeks. Working from home and social isolation has been challenging. But fortunetly, my family, friends and myself are healthy. I hope all the same for you! I have had some time (more time actually) to do some 3D printing. Here is the 3D print job for an 1/16 scale ARGUS (Opel) III six cylinder engine used in the Hannover CIIIa and serveral other German aircraft during WWI. I modeled this is Blender, then using my print pipeline, was able to print it out in five separate print jobs. Most of these only took 4 - 6 hours to print. Print time is proportial to the number of layers (hight in Z Axis) of the print, not the number of parts. I have found there tends to have more issues with lots of parts on one print, so I tend to keep the numbers smaller and do more prints. It took two weekends and a week of evenings to model the entire engine. However, now that I have it, I can print it in any scale I want down to about 1/24. Any smaller than that and I run into issues with parts being too small and would need to rework the model. |
| edtherenderman | Aero-Werkes AW 11601 - Hannover CL IIIa | Build | 02-Mar-20 08:46 |  | | Views : 339 | | Not a lot of building going on right now. Was down with the flu last week (nope, not Corvid-19 although I live just north of Kirkland, WA!). I did spend a good bit of time refining the pipeline for using the laser etcher and found a couple of good shortcuts. I’m planning on putting together a how-to for those who are interested. Anyway, here is a picture of the upper and lower wings for the Hannover. The center section of the upper wing was sheeted in the original a/c and contained an aux fuel tank and radiator. I’m going to 3D model and print those parts. I’ve also spend a week (prior to the flu) modeling the interior details so I can print them. I still need to model the engine. Once I get all the parts done, I’ll fit them to the fuse before sheeting. Finally, I spent some time sheeting, filling and sanding the vertical fin and lower horz stab (no pictures yet). These were integral parts of the original a/c fuse, so wanted to get them sheeted before mounting them and sheeting the fuse. |
| edtherenderman | Aero-Werkes AW 11601 - Hannover CL IIIa | Build | 10-Feb-20 08:50 |  | | Views : 381 | | Also rough formed the empennage. The Hannover is unique having two horizontal stabilizers. The idea was that it would improve Gunner/observers arch of fire since the stab could be smaller. I think it makes a cool looking aircraft! |
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