WIP - Ansaldo S.V.A. 5

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December 29, 2020
For a more living aircraft I cut the ailerons and made new hinges.
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December 29, 2020
The same with the tail plane, but instead of styrene I used here 0.2mm nickel silver. Can be filed in form and still do not look liek golden brass.
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December 29, 2020
The kit contains some resin exhaust outlets with mount plates on the back, but I made real metal open pipes, which can be mounted after painting of fuselage.
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December 29, 2020
As on my other projects I sanded an air screw, here in front view.
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December 29, 2020
The back side is more nice.
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December 29, 2020
Some work on axle and bearing, in a side view.
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December 29, 2020
I think this will look nicely later and is able to rotate easily.
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December 29, 2020
A block of eight soldered brass PE stripes.
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December 29, 2020
Filed and drilled into the left block, also another block of 12 plates.
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December 29, 2020
De-soldered into single plates, bend them and soldered onto the base plates.
On top right some work is needed for a different type.
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December 29, 2020
A huge amount of wooden struts needs to be sanded into final shape.
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December 29, 2020
One working example: the flat, not shaped end of a strut is bolted into a holder.
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December 30, 2020
I forgot a picture of the kit struts. I had to change it!
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December 30, 2020
The parts for the undercarriage. Wanted to have a longer metal axle, to show open pipes on the side of the wheels.
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December 30, 2020
A new axle, with washers created on lathe, but not yet fixed in place. But how to fix this new axle on the "board"?
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December 30, 2020
This ends up in new scratch work! I squeezed brass pipes and bend them into the needed angle. This was hard work! I drilled holes and soldered brass pins into it as suspension holders.
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December 30, 2020
I made a new wooden board and added side pins to the brass parts, with matching holes in the board. The washers on the axle are soldered to final position.
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December 30, 2020
Plugged together.
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December 30, 2020
And in a side view for better understanding.
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December 30, 2020
A reference is really helpful!
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December 30, 2020
In raw form. Later I finalized the shape a bit more.
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December 30, 2020
Axle was cleaned and tinned and wooden parts painted.
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January 2, 2021
On the left the tail skid from the kit, on a picture in the Datafile. The size was according to the drawings, but the plastic is very brittle. So I had to replace it anyway to be able to travel to exhibitions.
I made a laminated spring from nickel silver (brass was too soft) and prebend every single layer of different size. At the end of the block I soldered the layers together. The clamp was made from a thinner nickel silver stripe, bolted with 0.33mm nickel silver. As final step the spring was chemical browned ("brünieren" in German).
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January 2, 2021
Again in a side view.
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January 2, 2021
The holding clamp to the fuselage was made from two "U". After a lot of drilling and filing I soldered the second thin "U" for strengthening to one side. I filed also the end of the spring more flat and soldered it into the U. The little wedge is made from real wood.
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January 2, 2021
The wedge was glued onto the spring. The whole tail skid is here plugged on to the fuselage and can be later mounted with five little "bolts" on each side.
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January 2, 2021
I used the upper sides of the second "U" as mounting points for the tailplane struts, since I was not able to cut and bend out the ear as on original mount due to the small scale.
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January 2, 2021
And because it's so nice, here's how the tail skid can support the fuselage even without bolting it on.

Comments

10 29 December 2020, 21:00

bughunter
With the finish of the last project of the little Fokker D.V I can't find motivation to continue to work on a shelf queen, so I started another one.
I have not yet build a model from a short run kit of the company Fly, but have some in my stash. So I decided to build this elegant Italian biplane!

Damn, this was a lot of work on the details, but I hope it will enhance the look of this elegant biplane!
I would be very happy if one or the other accompanies me on this journey😉

29 December 2020, 21:05

Marcel Klemmer
I will take a seat....and have fun.

30 December 2020, 08:24

Erik
Mich beeindruckt immer wieder Deine saubere Arbeit. Wie spannst Du diese Winzteile zum bearbeiten eigtl. ein, ohne das sie (wie bei mir) ständig wegflitschen?

30 December 2020, 09:08

bughunter
Welcome to the show mates! This project is fun for sure😉
So ein Block kann man schon im Mini-Schraubstock halten. Ansonsten mit den Pinzetten nur leicht halten, keine großen Kräfte, sonst sagt es "Fling!".

30 December 2020, 13:57

David Taylor
Coke and popcorn at the ready.

30 December 2020, 15:25

Daniel Klink
Grab my seat too...1,50m please 🙂

30 December 2020, 15:27

bughunter
David and Daniel, welcome to the show!
Today I created a new undercarriage😉

30 December 2020, 18:10

James C
Spectacular work and I'm in awe of your propeller woodgrain👍

30 December 2020, 18:13

David Taylor
With all the scratching you do treat us to a complete scratch build{jealousy is a terrible thing)LOL.

30 December 2020, 18:25

bughunter
Thank you mates!
James, it is very hard to paint correct layers on such air screw, so I create wooden air screws foo all my planes😉 I tried it it also in 1:72, so my Fokker E.V strip down has also a wooden prop (with 0.3mm layers). Only real wood looks like wood 🙂
David, I will use wings, fuselage and tail from the kit, so only small parts are replaced. One day I will do a complete scratch build - I already have and idea. I made some experiments, but the quality was not acceptable. So I need a new idea for tooling before that project can really start. But until then I have enough kits in my stash😉

30 December 2020, 19:03

David Taylor
Don't we all,but when is enough LOLO.

30 December 2020, 20:39

Burkhard D
Da schau' ich zu! 🙂

30 December 2020, 20:40

Spanjaard
show already started 🙂 quietly joining the party ...

30 December 2020, 21:22

René "Lord Bilbo" Bartholemy
Keine einzige Atempause...😉

30 December 2020, 22:09

Skyhiker
I'm in.

30 December 2020, 22:41

bughunter
Welcome mates!
@Burkhard Hab ja gefühlt Ewigkeiten nichts gehört - schön, von Dir zu Lesen 👍
@Bilbo Lockdown udn ein paar Tage frei😉

31 December 2020, 10:46

Christoph Kunz
Oh, oh, another bughuntershow.
Fixing my chin with another mask and taking a seat.

31 December 2020, 11:28

bughunter
Oh yes Christoph! I can't stop, especially with some days spare time 👍

31 December 2020, 15:04

Slavo Hazucha
Crafting a masterpiece again from natural materials with the occasional bit of the original model again..? Fabulous work - as said times and again - great pleasure watching things & techniques that are in the same hobby and which I will probably never (be able to) do! 👍

PS: Watched Myazaki's "The wind rises" over the Holidays (it's on Netflix), so most happy to see an Italian biplane, albeit not a Caproni...😉

1 January 2021, 23:48

bughunter
Thank you Slavo! Very nice, that you dicovered my latest project 👍

2 January 2021, 20:12

bughunter
My first update in the new year. There was a nice support with new pictures and drawings, it was too tempting to turn to the tail skid immediately!
I am satisfied with the result - this is one of the nicest detail I ever made. It's really fun when you guys are egging me on too.

2 January 2021, 20:18

Spanjaard
truly exquisite

2 January 2021, 21:49

Ludvík Kružík
What you are showing with the SVA model is complete fantasy. I'm looking forward to the next sequel :-D

2 January 2021, 23:17

bughunter
Thx mates!
@Ludvik You name it "SVA model" Wikipedia says: A model is a simplified representation of reality.
So I create downscaled originals.😉

2 January 2021, 23:29

Ludvík Kružík
Nevertheless, the result is excellent 🙂 🙂 🙂

2 January 2021, 23:51

Alec K
Taking a seat. Photo 8-10: complete genius!!

Would love to hear you elaborate on your scratch built idea 🙂

3 January 2021, 13:20

gorby
Fascinating and impressive as always Frank!
That tail skid is a thing of beauty in itself.

9 January 2021, 16:07

bughunter
Thank you mates, but I must admit that this project has reached the state "On hold". It converted into a heavy scratch work project, but I do not have solutions for all problems. So I put it to the shelf and started already a hopefully more oob build (complete oob seems to be not possible for me), more soon.

9 January 2021, 17:21

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