BloorwestSiR Posted February 28, 2019 Share Posted February 28, 2019 The linkage looks amazing. If you're looking for small springs, several Japanese companies (Wave, Kotobukiya) make them in various diameters. You just cut them to the length needed. Carl Out2gtcha and Fanes 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Out2gtcha Posted February 28, 2019 Share Posted February 28, 2019 1 hour ago, BloorwestSiR said: The linkage looks amazing. If you're looking for small springs, several Japanese companies (Wave, Kotobukiya) make them in various diameters. You just cut them to the length needed. Carl 100% agreed w/Carl on that. I have on several occasions gotten springs, clamps, hose tie downs, pipe sleeving, tubing, micro heat shrink tubing, any color of mini wire you want, of course all sizes of pre-made springs, and a multitude of other useful parts for model aircraft from a Japanese appearing model car site of all things. It appears like its a Japanese site, but its actually located in the UK. Some really handy stuff there; you could spend hours and hours digging through small possibly useful parts. https://www.hiroboy.com/ MikeMaben and Fanes 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fanes Posted February 28, 2019 Author Share Posted February 28, 2019 3 hours ago, BloorwestSiR said: The linkage looks amazing. If you're looking for small springs, several Japanese companies (Wave, Kotobukiya) make them in various diameters. You just cut them to the length needed. Carl That seems a lot more easy than twisting wires for an hour Out2gtcha 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BloorwestSiR Posted February 28, 2019 Share Posted February 28, 2019 Here's some that I used on my Arado from a couple years back. It comes in different diameters. You can carefully pull on it to stretch it out a bit like I did here. Out2gtcha, MikeMaben, Azgaron and 6 others 6 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fanes Posted March 2, 2019 Author Share Posted March 2, 2019 Those look amazing! Maybe I'll redo the linkage.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fanes Posted March 5, 2019 Author Share Posted March 5, 2019 Work on the linkage has been postponed. The progress on my 109 motivated me to tackle the other wing and here it is in all its beauty: That's a little bit bigger than what I imagined After all that hard work I did something fiddly to relax. The instrument panel recieved its Revi power connector and the two IP lamps. For comparison I included the Dragon Revi in the picture. Well it's detailing is okayish but it's way overscale. The quickboost Revi is in my opinion much better. And everything put together: So long Joachim Out2gtcha, LSP_Kevin, LSP_Ray and 9 others 12 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fanes Posted April 5, 2019 Author Share Posted April 5, 2019 Resurrecting this thread from the dead. My 3D printed camera frame has finally arrived! The guy who did it for me was on vacation and then there was obviously other stuff to do but here it is: Fit should be good since the old part from fused filament did fit decently (despite being a disaster in any other way). The print quality is really amazing with extreme thin details. The challenge will be to remove this brittle and thin part in one piece from the support structure. Mroe on that tomorrow. So long Joachim Out2gtcha, LSP_Kevin, MikeMaben and 4 others 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LSP_Ray Posted April 6, 2019 Share Posted April 6, 2019 Frame looks good inside that forest of supports. That is going to be a delicate operation to cut it out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fanes Posted April 6, 2019 Author Share Posted April 6, 2019 Warning: The ligh hearted may skip this post. Mayhem It took me over an hour with really delicate sawing (finest PE saw I own) to remove the support structure but in the end within the last two connectors the whole thing blew up. Pieces recocheted and that's the result: The wohle printed parts was under stress and only hold together through the support structure. After some consideration and damage assessment I decided to reconstruct the thing. One piece of the arch is still missing - I#ll go crawl over the floor later again. Wish me luck! florin13, LSP_Kevin, MikeMaben and 3 others 3 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimbo Posted April 6, 2019 Share Posted April 6, 2019 Ouch Joachim, that’s gotta hurt...But good on you for the rebuild, I’m sure you’ll be able to get it back together. Stay the course, you can do it! Jimbo Fanes 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Out2gtcha Posted April 6, 2019 Share Posted April 6, 2019 That stinks! Fanes 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeMaben Posted April 7, 2019 Share Posted April 7, 2019 Fanes 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LSP_Ray Posted April 7, 2019 Share Posted April 7, 2019 That sucks, Joachim! I hope you find it, looks like a nice detail upgrade. Fanes 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fanes Posted April 7, 2019 Author Share Posted April 7, 2019 The missing part did'n show up during my extensive crawling around session, so I decided to scratch a replacement. It's not perfect and still needs trimming and sanding but I think in the end it'll be good enough! The AIMS camera is only dry fitted and is of course tiltable like the original. The good side of the frame will be mor visible. And here it is in the cockpit: Now I have to do the cleanup, prime the frame, clean up again, dry fit the auxilary units and the electical connectors and then the cockpit is good to (finally) go to painting stage. Thanks for watching and commenting! florin13, LSP_Kevin, themongoose and 6 others 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Out2gtcha Posted April 7, 2019 Share Posted April 7, 2019 Excellent! Really great work Fanes 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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