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[LSP_Kevin]

That's awesome mate!

Kev

[blackbetty]

stellar work!

[fozzy]

Congratulations Tomek!!!....the rigging looks absolutly spot on mate!...you say your pleased with it?...you should be

[DougN]

Really starting to look like an aeroplane now Tomek, great job getting the wings on and the rigging completed!

Doug

[dodgem37]

Will you just quit showing off??!! Truly some great work, Tomek.

Sincerely,
Mark

[Leif Ohlsson]

I am pretty sure this is the first time I see a truly functional rigging, down to the level of the fittings being separate and at the same time the actual attachment points for the rigging wires. The only thing that is not 100 percent scale, if I understand it correctly, is that the load of keeping the wings together still is carried by the wires ends sticking out through the struts. This is an excellent compromise, and I will try to replicate it at some time. What still amazes me is of course that your are accomplishing this in 1/33 which to me is a small scale. Congrats, as usual!

- Leif

[Ripaman]

Well my friend you said on my WIP you might need a shot, I took a few shots of Canadian wiskie after I saw your last post, just love it



Regards
Richard

[Tomek]

Thank you guys! You're too kind ...
I'm wondering if you change your mind after seeing the undercarriage . My plan was to weather it quite heavily - a silly idea since my weathering experience is very limited. On the other hand I need to start somewhere. First things first though....


My progress on the wheels was quite advanced when I got a feeling that something may be wrong with them. I checked them against the plans and it turned out that way too small ... I had no choice just to make them again, luckily scratchbuiding them wasn't that difficult. Olfa circle cutter was a big help. The discs were made out of cardboard, which was treated with CA to help in sanding.





The second picture below shows comparison of the kit's wheels and mine. Quite a difference. I'm glad that I caught it. I cut out a section and glue something resembling spokes in a place where there is a hole in a disc covering spokes. Not much of this will be seen, but anyway ... The wheels were painted with Vallejo acrylics.





The axle required reworking as well. The one in the kit is just a circular pipe while in 1:1 thing it had rectangular shape. Easy fix too.
For the weathering I used almost exclusively soft pastels (powder and mixed with water). I'm sill thinking about adding few small accents here and there .





Is it too much?

Edited by Tomek, 09 April 2012 - 02:29 PM.

[radial]

Perfect. It looks like an old sepia print in color!

[DougN]

Great job on weathering Tomek, doesn't look like too much at all.

Doug

[fozzy]

Absolutly brilliant work on the Undercart Tomek and the weathering in my book is just fine mate!

[Tomek]

Thanks guys! I still have a lot to learn about weathering. Following builds on the forums is a big help!

It looks like an old sepia print in color!

Interesting you said that! I have really hard time getting my camera work properly. Colors are always way off. Every time I try to tweak photos with various results in different software. This time it was Google+ photo editing tool. So far the best results, but as you've noticed something is still strange about them .

Thanks for looking in fellas!

[Tapcho]

Best part of the week (or month depending on your build speed) is to see an update on Skyhook. Great work on the wheels and I must say that your rigging is phenomenal. Such intricate care of details built in perfect scale. Way to go Tomek!

[Tomek]

Thanks Tappi, you’re too kind!

I managed to finally finish the undercarriage. I really don’t have much reference on the tail skid, so I had to improvise. In the Datafile there is one photo which shows this element (machine crashed on the roof of a barn), but details are very blurry. I used DH.4 and DH.9 as a loose reference and came up with this:






I finished the tail also! Quite a bit of rigging there (frankly I’m already sick of this part, only few more lines to go though ).






More in a minute....

[Tomek]

The aileron control gave me a headache. For quite a while I couldn’t understand how this thing worked. I knew there was a system of pulleys on the wings, but I couldn’t make sense of the cables and where they went. After some thought and consulting it with a more knowledgeable friend I came up with something like this (please excuse very rough drawing):



There was clearly one control cable coming out of the cockpit which run along the lower wing to a pulley, was redirected up and anchored to the upper aileron. By pulling this cable, this upper aileron would go down and the strut connecting it with the lower aileron would push it also. Another cable was anchored to the lower aileron and went to pulley on the top wing, what was happening to the cable after it pass the pulley was a mystery to me. Now I think it went inside the top wing, then to the other side of the airplane, through the top pulley and down to the lower aileron closing the system. Does it make any sense?

Photos may explain this better:








And few general shots:







Next the prop, painting exhaust, installing the engine, more rigging …. and maybe I’ll be able to call it done.