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| RCeverything, Comment for image # 15807 | 23 Aug 13 06:09 |
| Freaking beautiful little spot! |
| meku, Comment for image # 16353 | 08 Apr 13 10:24 |
| very good job, a beautiful chessboard, like the |
| Roring40, Comment for image # 16642 | 23 Apr 10 15:12 |
| Hiya fiawol3141. I must admit I get a bit carried away with cockpits ! The main material here is wood just like the original. I used some nice New Zealand native timbers and varnished them. My recomendations for a good cockpit are. 1. Get some great pics off the internet from as many angles as you can. 2. Work out the major features that need to be seen and make these as accurate as possible but forget the rest. 3. I go down to my local recycling centre with a plastic bag and scrounge through their trays of nuts and bolts and doodads and pick up as many unusual tiny little plastic and metal fittings as I can. The weirder the better as you will often have some peculiar cockpit fitting to make and find in your little treasure box the perfect doodad that frankly would never be useful for anything else. 4. I use really thin plasti-card and brass sheeting for those really hard to make bits. 5. I raid my wifes teacher resource cupboard and run off with anything that looks remotely interesting (she'll never catch me - haha).
A good cockpit is built in layers. Start with the background (metal formers, planking or the like)and build up on top of it up until it looks full enough. My ones aren't scale, aren't accurate and look nothing like the original but they are heaps of fun to build.
NB: I've posted a couple of pics of the cockpit I'm working on for my P-40. Not finished or painted yet but getting there. Cheers |
| fiawol3141, Comment for image # 16642 | 23 Apr 10 06:31 |
| I have been studying all of your photos and I will be attempting a few new things this build. I want to build an engine and a prop from scratch. Im pretty sure I will be able to do a fairly decent job thanks to your pics and this sites tutorials. Something that I noticed while pouring over your pics is that all of the very small details look incredible. The throtle in the cockpit, heck the cockpit itself, the control lines, and the do-dads on top of the engine cylinders. How did you make such them look so good? Did you carve them out of wood, clay, plastic? I cant figure it out. |
| Roring40, Comment for image # 16642 | 22 Apr 10 23:56 |
| Gary, it was just about the only thing that didn't get broken ! Almost a write off but I was forced to grit my teeth and commenced a rebuild. I have now learned the bad consequences of using sawn up bolts for engine cylinders - too much weight in all the wrong places. |
| stirling, Comment for image # 16642 | 22 Apr 10 22:09 |
| NOOOOOOO!!!!! Hope that beautiful prop did'nt get damaged!! |
| Roring40, Comment for image # 16642 | 22 Apr 10 16:20 |
| Thanks. Unfortunately shortly after I hang it from the ceiling, a small structural flaw saw it take an unanticipated flight down on to my computer desk. It is now back in the rebuild queue ! |
| jimbothehotdog, Comment for image # 16642 | 22 Apr 10 10:43 |
| Are you sure these are not pics of the real thing? :o)
Seriously... Wow! Very nice! |
| fiawol3141, Comment for image # 16643 | 22 Apr 10 05:11 |
| oh wow. I don't know how I missed that. thank you. |
| jgood, Comment for image # 16643 | 22 Apr 10 04:56 |
| fiawol3141, check out the 'How To' section on this site, it's on the main menu on the left. There is a tutorial on making a prop, and a radial engine (which should be somewhat similar in appearance to a rotary), thanks to David Duckett and John O. |
| fiawol3141, Comment for image # 16643 | 22 Apr 10 04:36 |
| I would love to learn some pointers from you. I am preparing to built my own Thomas Morse Scout and I would love to have the detail you had. I believe there is a difference in skill. I don't think I am ready to tackle the cockpit but I want my next goal to be to build my own engine and prop. Any tips? |
| FLYBOYZ, Comment for image # 16634 | 27 Feb 10 12:42 |
| Yes that is a fantastic plane and rigging is amazing.Beatiful |
| frwyflyer, Comment for image # 16360 | 27 Feb 10 11:36 |
| Thank you for this insight into building. Thay are very impressive |
| Roring40, Comment for image # 16643 | 27 Feb 10 11:16 |
| Cheers David, it was meant to be white and black checks but I kept stuffing the white up so decided on a change of colour. I'm pleased I did. |
| David Duckett, Comment for image # 16643 | 27 Feb 10 10:13 |
| This is beautiful work and a gorgeous use of color! The red is just right with the green and that's not easy. |
| Roring40, Comment for image # 16360 | 27 Feb 10 09:27 |
| To be honest there's not a lot of hardware involved. The black brackets you see are painted on. Holes were drilled in the struts prior to installation of the .015 stainless steel piano wire and the struts were then installed in the wing notches in the normal way. I considered manufacturing the brackets from plastic to make them realistic but given the number of them it would have taken too long. Cheers
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| frwyflyer, Comment for image # 16360 | 27 Feb 10 08:58 |
| Wonderful strut work!! How did you fabricate the strut mounting hardware? |
| frwyflyer, Comment for image # 16634 | 27 Feb 10 05:48 |
| WOW!! Very nice indeed. The strut detail and wire bracing are outstanding! |
| Roring40, Comment for image # 16634 | 26 Feb 10 23:36 |
| Cheers matey, I've had enough of rigging for this year - time to tangle with a monoplane. P-40 is next. |
| Roring40, Comment for image # 16640 | 26 Feb 10 23:34 |
| I think he has his eye on shooting down that Kiwi Gary. |
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