kensar Posted August 30, 2020 Share Posted August 30, 2020 Starting my 4th scratchbuild - a 1/32 Avro 504. I have chosen to build one of the early 504s, specifically, one piloted by CW Wilson when his observer shot down a German Taube to claim the RFC's first air to air victory. Here is a picture of an existing 504 similar to the one I will be building. I have started with a Taurus Oberursel U.0 converted to a Gnome Lambda. A simple conversion as the bolt pattern on the front of the engine needs to be changed. The engine is larger than that of my reference drawings, so I will need to enlarge the front of the fuse slightly. I have also started on the cowling, which I have made on my lathe. From this, I can start the fuselage. This is the first setup where the inside is machined out. Here is the second setup where I have hand filed the outside shape. Took a couple of hours. I have also started on the wings, which will be made a different way than previous builds. Here I am building up the wing instead of making a solid one. First, I cut out the top and bottom wing sheets from 0.020" styrene. I have glued a leading edge spar and a mid-wing spar in place with blocks for the struts to be mounted into. Next I glued to trailing edges together. Then applied glue to the tops of the spars and applied pressure at the trailing and leading edges while bending the wing over a piece under the mid-wing position to give the wing some camber. This pic shows the shape that I can get. This is from an experiment I did to test the process. Next I will be applying a 0.010" skin on top of the wing with the rib detail embossed in it. I embossed the rib pattern by pressing a drafting pen onto the sheet with a rubber piece under it to allow the embossing to occur. I am in the process of working on the wings at the moment, with the fuse to follow at some point. D.B. Andrus, Basta, MikeC and 21 others 24 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Landrotten Highlander Posted August 30, 2020 Share Posted August 30, 2020 Interesting project. pulling up a chair. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alain Gadbois Posted August 30, 2020 Share Posted August 30, 2020 Very interesting wing construction technique, and good subject choice too! Alain Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VW Chris 1969 Posted August 30, 2020 Share Posted August 30, 2020 Oh wow, this looks very interesting indeed, great start and am in awe already with the way you are making the wings, fantastic stuff. Great work. Chris Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LSP_Kevin Posted August 30, 2020 Share Posted August 30, 2020 Wow, indeed! Love scratch-build projects. Kev Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brett M Posted August 31, 2020 Share Posted August 31, 2020 Super cool Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kensar Posted September 7, 2020 Author Share Posted September 7, 2020 A small update. Still working on the wings. The upper wing roughed out. More progress Tips are made from laminated strips and sanded to shape. Reginald is waiting patiently. Anthony in NZ, VW Chris 1969, Andreas Tomcatter and 18 others 20 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RadBaron Posted September 7, 2020 Share Posted September 7, 2020 Brilliant! Out2gtcha 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevepd Posted September 7, 2020 Share Posted September 7, 2020 This is great, I’m blown away Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LSP_Kevin Posted September 7, 2020 Share Posted September 7, 2020 2 hours ago, RadBaron said: Brilliant! Absolutely! Kev RadBaron 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Out2gtcha Posted September 7, 2020 Share Posted September 7, 2020 3 hours ago, RadBaron said: Brilliant! X3! Lovely efforts going on here RadBaron 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex Posted September 8, 2020 Share Posted September 8, 2020 This is amazing stuff! Really inspiring me to try and extend my meager from-scratch detailing efforts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marcin_Matejko Posted September 8, 2020 Share Posted September 8, 2020 Superb Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Derek B Posted September 8, 2020 Share Posted September 8, 2020 Great work Ken; learning good things here! Derek Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kensar Posted September 8, 2020 Author Share Posted September 8, 2020 Thanks for all the kind comments, everyone. I think this is working out to be the best scratchbuild I have done yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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