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| LASTWOODSMAN | Aero-Werkes DPCM 119 BE2e | Parked | 01-Apr-17 09:20 |  | | Views : 766 | | Brass coated coffee jar "freshness seals" (.001" thick) used for "S" shaped cladding cutouts that include extra cutout strips of "stretch out and wrap around edge strips". Template sheet for loating the cladding positions, one piece on each side of the prop. |
| Huey V77 | Scratch Built Gee Bee Model "Y" | Parked | 31-Mar-17 11:50 |  | | Views : 894 | | Here's the cowl, not happy with the rocker cover blisters, have some work on them. Also have to make an engine and prop. |
| LASTWOODSMAN | Aero-Werkes DPCM 119 BE2e | Parked | 31-Mar-17 11:44 |  | | Views : 798 | | I removed the old "half circle" claddings from the prop tips, sanded the prop down to 400 grit paper, and sprayed 3 coats of Krylon Clear Gloss acrylic rattle can paint onto the balsa. |
| Huey V77 | Scratch Built Gee Bee Model "Y" | Parked | 31-Mar-17 11:40 |  | | Views : 915 | | Been messing with this the last couple of nights. Mixed Radome Tan and gloss White to get the base color. Amazingly the tissue tightened up. Some "Puckers" are still there. Don, on full scale using the "Dope" system, you apply two cross coats of nitrate to the fabric. nitra incapselates the fiber. Then you apply up to 4 coate of silver. Silver is butyrate mixed with aulminum power to block out UV light. Then you apply clear butyrate to fill the weave of the fabric. then several color coate. The last plane I did is a Aeronca Champ with 16 coats of dope. It looks beautifull, yet you can till see the weave. My Stinson model has two coats of nitrate and two coats of butyrate on silcspan. I heald its shape when paint was applied. |
| LASTWOODSMAN | Aero-Werkes DPCM 119 BE2e | Parked | 31-Mar-17 11:35 |  | | Views : 798 | | I have decided to scrap the old calddings and try to imitate the "S" shaped claddings of the 4 blade DH4 Rolls Royce prop. |
| LASTWOODSMAN | Aero-Werkes DPCM 119 BE2e | Parked | 31-Mar-17 11:32 |  | | Views : 815 | | Originally, my 4 - blade BE2e prop had "half circle" cloth claddings made from brass 0.001" thick coffee jar freshness seals, and were just bent to shape and sliped over (not glued) to the prop tips. |
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| John M Oshust | ManzanoLaser BAT FK-24 Baboon | Build | 30-Mar-17 15:19 |  | | Views : 929 | | Lewis Gun mount fabrication progress for today. |
| John M Oshust | ManzanoLaser BAT FK-24 Baboon | Build | 29-Mar-17 11:54 |  | | Views : 879 | | Progress on the gunnery pit. Now to fabricate a suitable gun mount and new Lewis gun. |
| LASTWOODSMAN | Aero-Werkes DPCM 119 BE2e | Parked | 28-Mar-17 21:57 |  | | Views : 920 | | The machine gun assembly is mounted to the plane with the gunner in position. The gunner is also moveable, as he has a pin glued, that sticks out from his bottom, that sticks into a hole in the mounting plate in the gunner cockpit that the gunner figure sits on. |
| LASTWOODSMAN | Aero-Werkes DPCM 119 BE2e | Parked | 28-Mar-17 21:49 |  | | Views : 822 | | I then installed the Lewis machine gun (there is a wire sticking out from the bottom of the machine gun balsa bracket mount), into one of several adjustable holes drilled into the base ring. The aluminum top ring can slide to different positions over the base ring, and the machine gun can be placed into the different holes in the base ring. |
| LASTWOODSMAN | Aero-Werkes DPCM 119 BE2e | Parked | 28-Mar-17 21:43 |  | | Views : 784 | | I made the adjustable top ring from 3/32" dia. aluminum tubing ( the first try with 1/8" tubing was way too thick). I made little brown sleeves from a plastic brown lid from a styrofoam coffee cup, and I CA'd them to the adjustable top ring, so that it could slide around on the bottom base ring (painted golden brown). I then slid the top adjustable ring onto the base ring. |
| LASTWOODSMAN | Aero-Werkes DPCM 119 BE2e | Parked | 28-Mar-17 21:36 |  | | Views : 817 | | I used this pic as a guide for the rear gunner machine gun mount. |
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