Weird question about Volks 1/32 Shinden

[ninjrk]

This is an odd one but for anyone who has built it, can you build it without installing the engine?  I want to steal the engine for an A7 Reppu scratchbuild but I'd rather not find out that now then donor kit can't be built.  Would anyone know the answer?

[Phantom2]

Yes, You can build that kit without the engine installed.

 

Take a look at this picture;

 

 

It´s the last part, the axle and the cooling fan where you mount the prop that´s important.

 

I guess you could leave the rest out.

 

There´s some see-trough from below as a part of the wheel wells are directly below.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cheers!

 

Stefan 

 

Edited December 18, 2021 by Phantom2

[Kagemusha]

You can buy the sprues, or as ZM call them, runners, so that's an option.

[Radub]

3 minutes ago, Kagemusha said:

You can buy the sprues, or as ZM call them, runners, so that's an option.

 

Well, just to be painfully pedantic, "runner" is the actual correct name for the "frame-like thing that holds the parts". The "sprue" is only the central item (sometimes button-like) in the middle of the runner that the plastic is injected through. I know that a lot of people refer to "sprues" all over the internet and in print, for years people have been talking about "stretched sprue" and there is even a podcast called "sprue cutters' something", but the actual "sprue" is only a small  part of the runner. 

https://www.plasticmoulds.net/spruesrunners-and-gates-of-plastic-mold.html

Radu

[Kagemusha]

The first time I came across the term runner, in connection with scale models, was in relation to the ZM Ta 152, thanks for the explanation, and I don't think pedantry should be painful, it needs to be celebrated, and on that note, a belated happy half century!

[Jeff T]

Ive noticed some modellers on the forums call them "Spruce's", which I always found strange.

 

Jeff.

[ninjrk]

Thanks!

[seiran01]

You could always get the ZM conversion set to make your Shinden into the jet version as another option too

 

[Oldbaldguy]

16 hours ago, Radub said:

 

Well, just to be painfully pedantic, "runner" is the actual correct name for the "frame-like thing that holds the parts". The "sprue" is only the central item (sometimes button-like) in the middle of the runner that the plastic is injected through. I know that a lot of people refer to "sprues" all over the internet and in print, for years people have been talking about "stretched sprue" and there is even a podcast called "sprue cutters' something", but the actual "sprue" is only a small  part of the runner. 

https://www.plasticmoulds.net/spruesrunners-and-gates-of-plastic-mold.html

Radu

But “stretched runner” and “Runner Brothers” hardly trips lightly from the tongue, does it?

[Radub]

Just now, Oldbaldguy said:

But “stretched runner” and “Runner Brothers” hardly trips lightly from the tongue, does it?

 

Yup, indeed! 

Because every runner has a sprue, referring to the whole thing as a "sprue" is a bit like when people refer to their car as "my wheels" or "my motor". 

Radu

[Tony T]

16 hours ago, Jeff T said:

Ive noticed some modellers on the forums call them "Spruce's", which I always found strange.

 

Jeff.

 

That's what autospell does to sprues. It doesn't recognise it as a word.

 

But, on spruce, I always used to call the moulding in its entirety a "tree". Don't know where I got that from, but I note that Eduard calls its boxes of just parts "overtrees". 

 

Quite fancy the jet Shinden. Did it ever fly?  Edit: just the prop version according to Wiki. 

 

Tony 

 

 

Edited December 19, 2021 by Tony T
It never was built or flew. 1946 IJ fantasy plane.