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| Don C | Scratch Built Basler BT-67 | Build | 17-Feb-20 13:15 |  | | Views : 773 | | Wing center section infilled. Instructions from both plans are quite similar. |
| Don C | Scratch Built Basler BT-67 | Reference | 11-Feb-20 10:13 |  | | Views : 880 | | Sure. MIght have to modify it a bit, though. |
| David Duckett | Cleveland McDonnel F2H-2 Banshee | Build | 10-Feb-20 17:19 |  | | Views : 2503 | | In the paint shop |
| edtherenderman | Aero-Werkes AW 11601 - Hannover CL IIIa | Build | 10-Feb-20 08:50 |  | | Views : 781 | | Also rough formed the empennage. The Hannover is unique having two horizontal stabilizers. The idea was that it would improve Gunner/observers arch of fire since the stab could be smaller. I think it makes a cool looking aircraft! |
| edtherenderman | Aero-Werkes AW 11601 - Hannover CL IIIa | Build | 10-Feb-20 08:48 |  | | Views : 836 | | Fuse together. Standard box build technique: Build both sides on the plans, glue the tail post, tape the first former on, than carefully glue in the top and bottom formers. This is going to be a big airplane. It’s 1/16 scale so around 30” wingspan. I was going to downscale it to 1/20, but because I was also dealing with the Laser Etcher, I decided to go with the larger scale. |
| edtherenderman | Aero-Werkes AW 11601 - Hannover CL IIIa | Build | 10-Feb-20 08:43 |  | | Views : 769 | | Fuse parts cut! It took about 1.5 hours to cut the parts. With a more powerful laser, the time would go way down since it takes 6 passes for each part. The more time consuming part is converting the drawing into a file the etcher can use! If anyone is interested in this method, let me know. I’m happy to talk about my pipeline. I was able to cut all the parts for the airplane on one 1/16 x 6 x 36 sheet of balsa, including twice as many wing ribs as outlined in the plan. I was cutting for a good 8 hours, but once I was comfortable that I wasn’t going to catch anything on fire, I was able to do other work while the cutting happed. It’s still a good idea to keep your eye on it though! |
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| edtherenderman | Aero-Werkes AW 11601 - Hannover CL IIIa | Build | 10-Feb-20 08:38 |  | | Views : 842 | | Here is the laser cutting the second part. This is 1/16 sheet, 6” wide. I realize this picture may be a bit misleading. The little hose with the fitting on the end looks like the source of the laser. It’s actually an airbrush hose used to blow low pressure air on the work surface. The air keeps the smoke from diffusing the laser, fogging up the laser lens, and puts out any small sparks that may end in a burned up piece of balsa and small garage fire! |
| edtherenderman | Aero-Werkes AW 11601 - Hannover CL IIIa | Build | 10-Feb-20 08:34 |  | | Views : 886 | | Started work this weekend on the Aero-Werkes Hannover CL IIIa. I’m scratch building it from plans I found on Outerzone (https://outerzone.co.uk/plan_details.asp?ID=1156). This is my first attempt at using a $250 2D Laser Etcher/Cutter that I got off of Amazon to cut the balsa parts. Here is my rig. Cutter on the left, laptop on the right, ’71 Jaguar in the background |
| heywooood | Dumas Kit #317, Lockheed Air Express Vega | Parked | 09-Feb-20 21:02 |  | | Views : 1058 | |
| heywooood | Dumas Kit #317, Lockheed Air Express Vega | Parked | 09-Feb-20 21:02 |  | | Views : 977 | |
| heywooood | Dumas Kit #317, Lockheed Air Express Vega | Parked | 09-Feb-20 21:02 |  | | Views : 938 | |
| hjlittman | HJL Models P-6E Hawk | Build | 09-Feb-20 16:10 |  | | Views : 2399 | | And, yes, it builds straight! |
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