Wingnuts Gotha

[Marmaduke]

Beautiful work! One day I'm going to tackle one of the Wingnut kits but I think it's still a little beyond my skill set. Keep up the great work, I can't wait to see more!

[Jon. H]

Thanks all.

Anyone who wants to build this plane will have the option of either an LVG or Gotha built. I have chosen the LVG MoRoTaS. You have to drill holes for new control cable guides and remove the ones for the Gotha.

Any one who reads this and has one, decide which one your are going to do and take care of this first. You have to drill some pretty big holes for the new guides and they will protrude into the fuselage quite a bit.

I did not realize that until it was too late and it was going to look hideous with those studs and now way to sand them down and make flush.  

 Would have been better if they would just have modled all the guides on the fuselage halves and you just sand the ones not needed down flush.

I will just have to use the guides for the Gotha build and truck on along.

No one is too blame but me. Now with that out of the way, on to the pictures.

I also found out after gluing the 2 sides together that I was left with a crease facing inwards on the bottom. My advice is to shim the bottom before gluing. 2 cut off sanding sticks worked perfect for me.



Been working on the engines. I plane to leave the cowls of one engine so I made some plugs out of this plastic rod and used eduard ignition wires.

I used this tape for the wrap, applied thin putty on top of tape and painted black.









Thats all for now, take care.

[scvrobeson]

Looking great!  The purple and blue Gotha is such a cool looking scheme, and you're doing a great job of bringing it to life. Can't wait to see more.

 

 

 

Matt 

[Jon. H]

Thanks Matt.

 

Little more work done.

Got the exhaust all fixed up.

Base coat of Life Color red oxide followed by a bushing of pastels.

Ran rigging to the one engine that will have the side panels removed.




Both radiators fixed up.



I have a question, what would you think about replacing the cable guides with just some small O.D. brass tube glued to the side. I laid these on top as test shot.

[Guest Clunkmeister]

I'm not a fan of that. I think, my opinion only, is that it's out of scale and the wrong shape.

 

Good to see you're opening one engine. I left mine closed, because I'm building my AEG with both wide open in Service. Just two big Mercedes hanging out in the breeze...

 

Question,

 

Are you using the kit wheels, or going full wire?

 

I'm loving your attention to all the details. I tend to ignore stuff that won't be seen, but you're doing everything. I love it!

MoRoTas is sure a popular scheme. Three on the go now on LSP, including mine and yours.

Edited September 5, 2015 by Clunkmeister

[Jon. H]

 

Thanks for the awesome tip Clunk.

 

I am unsure on the wheels at this point.

 

Yea, I have abandoned the brass rod guides, just gonna keep it simple.

 

Thanks again for all of your help!!!!

[Jon. H]

I am painting the main fuselage today. I am trying to decide on the blue.

 

This side is standard xf-18 medium blue which I feel is a little too dark. [/url]

 

This side is a mix of the xf-18 and a different blue.[/url]

 

Undecided at this time. I ordered some of mister kit Gotha built blue but it is lost in translation somewhere at this time.

[monthebiff]

Wow......what a fantastic build, beautiful clean work and cannot wait to see more.

 

Regards. Andy

[Jon. H]

Been busy at work so sorry about lack of updates. This is where I sit now. I know most are probably tired of seeing the MoRoTaS scheme, lol.

 

I did have trouble with the upper wing. Once together with such a long wing span, if held by center, it looses its dihedral. It finally weakened on my and started to separate at the center that I just cut the 2 apart and will deal with that later. Does make it heck easier to move around and paint.

 

 

Finally received my Misterkit paint after about 22 days. Messing around with them on my current color and I like the contrast.

 

 

Thanks for looking.

[LSP_Kevin]

That's fantastic, John! Very interested to hear your thoughts on the Misterkit paints.

 

Kev

[Youngtiger1]

Simply amazing. Love the colors, and speaking of the colors where did you get these Misterkit colors?

[Jon. H]

 

Thanks all!!!!

 

http://www.misterkit.com/catalog/index.php

That is where I got my paint from. I believe it came from Italy so for us guys in the States, order well in advance.

 

For as using Misterkit, I had no problem with them. They seemed to spray fine using Guenze acrylic thinner. The lighter color start off a little opaque until sufficient base coat is built. I do like the color density of this paint. They make a great WWI line up and would like to try more.

 

The book that I am following along with, the same thing happen to the author's top wing as well. His approach was drilling small holes and using a small rod to join the 2 back together. I will probably be doing the same.

 

Thanks again all.

[Jon. H]

Still plugging along. Got the wires ran for the fuselage controls, Gaspatch one ended turnbuckles installed. Glue in the wing struts. I used the top wing as an alignment for the struts and once the glue set, removed the top wing.

 

My next move looks to be some pre-rigging before I permanently attach the top wing.

 

Until next time.

[Jon. H]

Hello Ernie, I will try my best.

 

In the publication I am following along with the author's wing was having the same problem. His solution was to saw one wing off from that center section, then remove the 2 spars in the center that held the 2 wings together. For people who have not built this kit, those 2 spars are the only support that full wingspan has. In my opinion, it is very weak.

 

The author removed the center spars as well, drilled through those and into both sides of the wings. He then inserted a rod, (unsure what size) through the spars and into each halves of the wings. Thats how he joined his back together. This did not work for me and I will tell you why.

 

When you drill those holes, you have to be careful where you plan to drill those hole. If you were like me, I drill right where the fuselage struts would rest in the upper wing, no good. I also had a drill bit brake on me as well. I just put it to the side and was going to mess with it later.

 

(When my top wing was starting to seperate, I never did let it snap in-two, I made a clean cut on one of the wings flowing the angle of the dihedral at the center spars closest to the edge.)

When I glued those struts into the lower wing, while the were still drying, I placed both my top wings on to see what it would look like. The 2 wings basically fell into place and matched my cut and angle pretty darn near close.

 

I have not figured out just yet how I am going to reattach the two, I may put a small amount of epoxy and hold them until it sets up.

[LSP_Kevin]

That looks great!

 

Kev