kkarlsen Posted December 5, 2018 Author Share Posted December 5, 2018 The fuselage frame has these 'eyelets' welded to some of the corners for the rigging attachments... So I had to come up with a way to produce some 'rings' Ii reminded be of when making buckles and handles from lead wire. Some stretched sprue is coiled around a fitting shaped tool and this is placed over the flame of a candle to reheat the stretched sprue to make it keep the shape... This way I'm able to produce as many 'eyelets' as I need. The fuselage frame is slowly beginning to come together... Cheers: Kent Wouter, TorbenD, Whitey and 8 others 11 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Madmax Posted December 5, 2018 Share Posted December 5, 2018 Oh my word! This is like watching childhood dreams turn into reality. Scratch-building from another planet, and very inspiring. Keep going Kent... kkarlsen 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marcin_Matejko Posted December 5, 2018 Share Posted December 5, 2018 The frame of the hull looks great kkarlsen 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kkarlsen Posted December 6, 2018 Author Share Posted December 6, 2018 (edited) 23 hours ago, Madmax said: Oh my word! This is like watching childhood dreams turn into reality. Scratch-building from another planet, and very inspiring. Keep going Kent... Thank you Sean, appreciate it. It's also one of my 'childhood dreams' - Now it's finally time to go for it... And I will, continue to the 'bitter end' :-) Cheers: Kent Edited December 6, 2018 by kkarlsen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kkarlsen Posted December 6, 2018 Author Share Posted December 6, 2018 It's beginning to look like a little 'Fokker'... Fitting the Aviattic rudder. And the cowling, also Aviattic... Cheers: Kent Out2gtcha, LSP_Kevin, TorbenD and 7 others 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kkarlsen Posted December 7, 2018 Author Share Posted December 7, 2018 First little test of fitting the resin spars... The axle fairing has been strengthened with a piece of brass rod. The cast resin spars fits nicely on the axle- The outer spars are held in place by some stretched sprue. This technique seems to work very well, which is a great encouragement for the upcoming wing assembly's... For the Wheels I have been casting some tyres + wheel rims and I will be using the Part photo etched wire wheels and spokes. First attempt at the tail plane, it's not as complicated as it looks... I may have to change some of the 'stringers' with resin ones, they are not 'behaving' as I would like them to. Cheers: Kent TorbenD, Starfighter, Shawn M and 7 others 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wouter Posted December 7, 2018 Share Posted December 7, 2018 Now this is something you don't see every day! Fantastic work Kent, you're a brave man. kkarlsen 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shawn M Posted December 7, 2018 Share Posted December 7, 2018 excellent work Kent kkarlsen 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Troy Molitor Posted December 7, 2018 Share Posted December 7, 2018 Your work is really inspirational Kent. Thanks for sharing your journey with us. Im also excited to see the little Fokker on her gear. Amazing. Troy kkarlsen 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BiggTim Posted December 7, 2018 Share Posted December 7, 2018 Just fantastic! My modelling mojo has been absent lately, and this is making me want to push ahead with my own skeleton builds. I have been struggling with how to make my own cowls; metal for the Camel and paper for the planned Fokker project. Really awesome work! Out2gtcha and kkarlsen 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LSP_Kevin Posted December 7, 2018 Share Posted December 7, 2018 This is superb, Kent! Kev kkarlsen 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeff T Posted December 8, 2018 Share Posted December 8, 2018 Superb work Kent! Very neat and clean construction there. Cheer's, Jeff. kkarlsen 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TorbenD Posted December 8, 2018 Share Posted December 8, 2018 Vidunderlig! What a cracking project Kent Torben kkarlsen 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kkarlsen Posted December 8, 2018 Author Share Posted December 8, 2018 (edited) 22 hours ago, Wouter said: Now this is something you don't see every day! Fantastic work Kent, you're a brave man. Thanks Wouter, hopefully I will not break my neck or something on this! ;-) Cheers: Kent Edited December 8, 2018 by kkarlsen Wouter 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kkarlsen Posted December 8, 2018 Author Share Posted December 8, 2018 (edited) Couldn't resist, I just had to try the fitting of the tail plane... Looking very 'Fokkerish'. Now I'm headed for the Wing assembly's... This book about the Fokker Dr. I is just great! Plans and details of the constructions. I'm trying to get as close to real thing as possible. A little example of the work involved for the wing tips. Ready to make copy's of the wingtips. The assembly of the top wing begins. More wing spars in place. No real challenges yet. It's just hours of fiddly work ;-) Cheers: Kent . Edited December 8, 2018 by kkarlsen patricksparks, MikeMaben, TorbenD and 6 others 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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