Shawn M Posted January 21, 2019 Share Posted January 21, 2019 she looks more and more whale like, in a great organic way! kkarlsen 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kkarlsen Posted January 21, 2019 Author Share Posted January 21, 2019 (edited) 6 hours ago, Shawn M said: she looks more and more whale like, in a great organic way! Thanks all. I hear you, 'Moby Dick' comes to my mind! Sci-fi or not, just wait until I get the rudder done - It does not get much more 'ridiculous' than that thing... Cheers: Kent Edited January 21, 2019 by kkarlsen guitarlute101, Trak-Tor, BiggTim and 3 others 5 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shawn M Posted January 21, 2019 Share Posted January 21, 2019 omg thats a rigging nightmare in its own right! kkarlsen 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Azgaron Posted January 21, 2019 Share Posted January 21, 2019 Excellent work so far! Håkan kkarlsen 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anthony in NZ Posted January 21, 2019 Share Posted January 21, 2019 Kent, I echo everyone else's praise. Your workmanship is clean and beautiful. I like your approach to the conversion as I am looking at converting my Wingnut amc DH.9 into a DH.50 passenger plane. You have given me some wonderful ideas on how to approach my conversion as well. Keep up the wonderful work and inspiration! Cheers Anthony kkarlsen 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul fisher Posted January 22, 2019 Share Posted January 22, 2019 This is one of the most inspiring builds I've seen in a great while....Beautiful workmanship and a great subject.Makes me want to build a Shorts Calcutta or Blackburn Perth in 1/32, the mind boggles! Paul LSP_Kevin, Anthony in NZ and kkarlsen 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wolf Buddee Posted January 23, 2019 Share Posted January 23, 2019 (edited) Kent, you are truly insane! My kind of crazy though.......... If you were in an asylum they'd have you in the penthouse suite right next to Peter Castle! I've always been impressed with your work but all I can say open this one is....... Cheers, Wolf ( who's slinking back to assemble a little more on his tank in the asylum basement) Edited January 23, 2019 by Wolf Buddee kkarlsen 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kkarlsen Posted January 23, 2019 Author Share Posted January 23, 2019 On 1/21/2019 at 7:27 PM, Anthony in NZ said: Kent, I echo everyone else's praise. Your workmanship is clean and beautiful. I like your approach to the conversion as I am looking at converting my Wingnut amc DH.9 into a DH.50 passenger plane. You have given me some wonderful ideas on how to approach my conversion as well. Keep up the wonderful work and inspiration! Cheers Anthony Thank you Anthony. Many surplus aircraft types from World War One were used as early passenger aircraft after the war. There are some very 'obscure' looking Aeroplanes from this time. The DH 50 is a great idea, looking forward to this! I'm planning to convert my WNW DH.9 kit into one of the early danish passenger planes, maybe this one... I just love this era of 'Those Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines' BiggTim, jimbo, Anthony in NZ and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kkarlsen Posted January 23, 2019 Author Share Posted January 23, 2019 11 hours ago, paul fisher said: This is one of the most inspiring builds I've seen in a great while....Beautiful workmanship and a great subject.Makes me want to build a Shorts Calcutta or Blackburn Perth in 1/32, the mind boggles! Paul Happy that you feel that way Paul, it would surely be an achievement to build one of those, just can't get enough of those early flying boats... Cheers: Kent Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kkarlsen Posted January 23, 2019 Author Share Posted January 23, 2019 (edited) 2 hours ago, Wolf Buddee said: Kent, you are truly insane! My kind of crazy though.......... If you were in an asylum they'd have you in the penthouse suite right next to Peter Castle! I've always been impressed with your work but all I can say open this one is....... Cheers, Wolf ( who's slinking back to assemble a little more on his tank in the asylum basement) Thank you Wolf, appreciate it. You don't know how close you've come with the 'Asylum' thing... But If it earns a place next to my friend Peter, I would surely be honored, he's a true 'magician'. You know we have a saying here in Denmark, one that I have kind of adopted for my self over the years: "Better being an 'original' (meaning weirdo, wacky or nerdy) than being a bad copy"... (Don't know if this translates at all?) Cheers: Kent Edited January 23, 2019 by kkarlsen Anthony in NZ and jimbo 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BiggTim Posted January 23, 2019 Share Posted January 23, 2019 Just now getting caught up on this, Kent. Really fantastic work!! Just the crazy sort of stuff I love to see! You've inspired me to have another go at vacuforming (as if I needed one more thing to learn). What type of plastic did you use for that roof? Tim kkarlsen and Out2gtcha 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kkarlsen Posted January 23, 2019 Author Share Posted January 23, 2019 3 hours ago, BiggTim said: Just now getting caught up on this, Kent. Really fantastic work!! Just the crazy sort of stuff I love to see! You've inspired me to have another go at vacuforming (as if I needed one more thing to learn). What type of plastic did you use for that roof? Tim Thanks Tim. I used 1mm polystyrene sheet for the roof? This time I was lucky, no problems with vacuum forming the parts I needed. I can assure you. It's not always like that. All sorts of tweaking is needed, temperature, time, thickness etc. But the feeling is sweet when something like this succeeds. Cheers: Kent BiggTim and Out2gtcha 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BiggTim Posted January 23, 2019 Share Posted January 23, 2019 17 minutes ago, kkarlsen said: Thanks Tim. I used 1mm polystyrene sheet for the roof? This time I was lucky, no problems with vacuum forming the parts I needed. I can assure you. It's not always like that. All sorts of tweaking is needed, temperature, time, thickness etc. But the feeling is sweet when something like this succeeds. Cheers: Kent And what sort of vac-forming machine do you have? kkarlsen 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jan_G Posted January 23, 2019 Share Posted January 23, 2019 outstanding work Kent! wow, and what a beautiful plane your work is really inspiring! jan kkarlsen 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wouter Posted January 23, 2019 Share Posted January 23, 2019 Totally missed this one so far, but not anymore. What a build / conversion. I'm actually speechless. Keep m coming Kent! kkarlsen 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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