DFW C.V (Gretel Lo)
Toothpick forrest
Decals on the fuselage
Guns from Master. I am not able to bend a perfect cylinder from the suppied photoetch
Highly sophisticated way of proping the exhaust
Turnbuckles from Gaspatch
The other gun. Also from Master
Using a brass rod to get the angle of the turnbuckle right
Improved version of establishing the turnbuckle angles. Thinner brass rod inserted into a brass tube. Now I have a variable length rod and do not have to eyeball/measure the distance for each wire. I had a shorter and longer version.
Comments
1 10 January 2019, 03:12
Alec KAbsolutely gorgeous build! I am stealing your wire length "calculator" idea 👍
9 March 2019, 14:04
David AndrsAlec K: When I was cutting the first wire for the third time I was like - I need something better for this, because there is an awful lot of wires 😉 The only weakness is how to keep the damn thing in place while you glue the turnbuckles. The tape kind of works. May be masking fluid would work much better... need to try it next time...
10 March 2019, 00:26
Alec KI am assuming the turnbuckles are not actually eyelet-in-eyelet (that would be too easy...), and the ends must be cut to mate with the anchor eyelet? Hence the need to position them at appropriate angle?
10 March 2019, 13:29
David AndrsThey are Type A ([img1]?c=2) . It is one rigid piece. Then EZLine is threaded through the eyelet. So, yeah, you need to get the angle right. It is a tradeoff between building 30 of them vs. using a prefabricated part. Each has its own pluses and minuses.
10 March 2019, 18:05
