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I beg to differ with you Chris! Your scratch built decks are FANTASTIC. I have no idea what you will be getting in the mail but I can not imagine they will be nicer than what you have already made! -
Looks like you are getting the hang of planking that round stern Jack. Won't be long before you have a for real looking hull. Of course you could just cut off the remaining hull and call it a "waterline" model! Great progress.
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Enzo Ferrari by CDW - FINISHED - Tamiya 1:24 Scale
lmagna replied to CDW's topic in Non-ship/categorised builds
I don't need too much rafter room Jack and Edward. I like hanging from my feet. It helps relieve some of the pain in my back! Besides it gets me a little closer to the work in progress. This is going to be one exotic build! -
One place would would be anywhere in the arc of fire of the main guns on the main deck if they were preparing to fire as your forward guns look to be. Same would hold true of turret roofs. The blast from those gig guns could do and almost always did some damage to the ship every time they fired. Could be a small as knocking off paint or as large as taking out windows on the bridge or knocking a scout plane silly. Also standing in front of a star shell launcher like the two guys standing on turret #2s roof may not be a super good idea either!
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That is why he probably keeps it secure and remote in his work room and away from us! He doesn't want a bunch of soused rafter hanging Ding Bats wandering around his village wining and wenching like a bunch of pirates. (But to me it has become real enough over the last few months to see myself doing just that!) I do have a question though Ekis. When you have two buildings joined like these with no space, would it be common for both to have their own wall on the joined side or would it be more common for the later structure to be built using the common wall of the first? With proper compensation of course if there were two owners of the joined buildings.
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WOW...................... turn my head for a second and all of the sudden the thing is red white and black all over......... Well a little blue too I suppose! Super job Craig!
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He's English as well isn't he? If so he is probably a better authority than I am.
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No problem OC Your build your choice. I was just saying that it looked odd to me for some reason. All of the CHs I have even seen had window frames that matched the fuselage color. Most had a black anti glare upper nose but not all of them. I don't even pretend to be all that knowledgeable on the CH anyway, especially a more modern English version. They could be pink with purple Pokka dots and fly like a Flamingo for all I know. You are doing great work, possibly one of your best, and I am enjoying following along.
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Nice work in getting what appears to be a poor fitting clear section to fit properly OC. I don't think I have ever seen a CH with black window frames. Somehow looks strange to me for some reason.
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The places you pointed out will probably not even be seen under normal observation. Keep up the good work
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Nice work. One thought to consider on the capstan motor/gearbox assembly is what happens when the anchors reach their limit of travel. if they are not stopped immediately those little motors are powerful enough to rip the assembly up or break the anchor chain. you may want to us some kind of friction coupling like a piece of rubber hose or something to prevent that from happening. Nice work on getting the cabin straightened out. You may want to remember that part of the lip on the deck that the cabin fits over is not only to locate the cabin properly and prevent shifting but to act as a coming to prevent water coming over the deck and going down into the hull through the large opening under the cabin and getting into the electronics and running gear. Great progress, looking forward to see where you go from here.
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Pylon whirl which can bring on pitch flap is not strictly a condition unique to tilt rotor aircraft. It can also be experienced in conventional helicopters. Usually it is only experienced when the pilot applies heavy applications of cyclic and collective corrections to the rotor during relatively low power or low speed maneuvers. One of the visible design items on conventional helicopters that is there to partly help with the condition is the horizontal stabilizer located on the outer end of the tail of almost all single main rotor helicopters. It's other use is to pull the tail down at higher speeds and allow the aircraft to fly at a more even keel instead of nose down all of the time. May be different in tilt rotor aircraft, I don't know. Like I said I am not an engineer or even a pilot, and don't even get to play one on TV. Other concept aircraft/designs of the time included the Hiller X-18, the Curtiss Wright X-19, Bell X-22, LTV XC-142 and Boeing Vertol VZ-2 to name just a few. All of them showed some potential especially the X-19 and XC-142 with speeds of over 400 KTs. But I think it would be safe to say that they were aircraft before their time and the concept needed more modern technology to make it practical. And even with the V-22 it was a close call. It became very close to being just another of those "almost" aircraft more than once.
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Not going to give eight needles in the back a thumbs up Kevin but as one with back issues as well I am hoping they were worth it for you and start working. They tried the needle stuff on me a couple of years ago and they didn't do much more than get me out of the doctor's office. Did remind me just what pain free feels like though. A distant dream these days. Get well so I can continue to look in on your great work.
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I believe that speed is just at low altitude Ken I think at higher altitudes, 1500 feet or higher it increases to over 300 KN. One design feature I always wondered about was why place the engines outboard at the wingtips? If they have to be coupled for safety when operating under one engine anyway, why not place the engines/transmissions inboard and just have the hubs and rotation mechanism at the tips. I am no where near being an engineer but I would think this would protect the engines and transmissions better and also allow the props more than 90 degrees of rotation promoting even greater potential slow speed maneuverability.
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That is truly an astounding cockpit Bob. It looks to have more parts and detail than many full models!
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Thanks for the Klean Klay reference Kurt, I have never heard of it before. Apparently much nicer than my kids clay. But then I was "multi tasking" my kids toys.
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Possibly a little unorthodox, but back in my old RC days I would form a thick bulkhead using my kids modeling clay and carefully lift it out and lay it flat on a sheet of paper and trace it. Made for a perfect fit every time. Very useful when having to form several frames and bulkheads in fiberglass hulls that came in one piece and had no interior strengthening or divisions.
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But what if Ekis puts trees in, then what?
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Another plus mark for Tom and his company. What a novel idea to use a native of the language to write the instructions rather to rely on a person who uses it as a second language! I have wished that companies would do that so many times over the years! Sometimes the mistakes are only humorous. Other times they are downright baffling.
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You mean, that if we showed up on your doorstep, you would turn us away??????????😭 I think I could spend hours just looking through the streets and buildings and never get bored. Don't you think the village is getting large enough to have a name now?
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Nice start Denis. I have liked the lines of these ever since I saw my first one. They have to be about the loudest thing in the air though. like a Huey I always know when one flies over even if it is hidden by trees or whatever, but for different reasons. One is for the unique sound, and the other for the level of sound.
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Oh I'm here Denis. Stalking around ninja style trying to soak up information on what would be my next car build should I ever be able to get to it. Ken Miles' pale blue Ford GT MKII from the 1966 24 hours of Lemans race. The true winning car. Nothing like getting to hang out in the rafters and see how people with real skills get it done!
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He could always start out with a M113............... They float!
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Well here is the input from another low on oil coal fired individual for what it is worth. Like I said I have only been on a S***hook twice and I even find some of my memories about Huey's in question these days. But if memory serves, the side round windows were fixed, like you would find in any modern airliner these days. They were not even removable for emergency exit like the non opening door windows, (And pilot doors) on a Huey. To be honest I doubt the porthole windows were large enough to allow a body to fit through anyway. This memory is further enhanced by the fact that in US Army rotary wing aircraft it was a practice that any emergency exit was surrounded by a thin yellow or yellow/black striped band with a red arrow pointing to the release handle if so equipped. That is not to say that like Mark said many aircraft were modified to carry ordinance that was field installed and removing windows for this equipment was quite common in Vietnam. This of course would probably not apply to a RAF version. Like I said, with things and time being what they are, I lay no claim to the above being gospel. Almost anything is possible with the age of this aircraft.
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By the time you have it all done you will have it figured out how it is done and the the second planking with the much thinner strips will be much easier.
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