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Thank you Kevin, It is appreciated... 21 and a half inches, barely fits in my cabinet, gonna have to get a bigger one soon.... (once the A7, F-100, A4, F-104 and F4U are done) {chuckle} -
Yep, there was no hard and fast rule on any of them... About the only thing that is common to them all is the yellow painted oak wheels and silver steel tyres.. Even the yellow color could vary by where the coach was built, they all sourced local materials...
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Thank you Dennis, it's really appreciated...
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Thanks my friend, Just figured I would take one out and just build it... Nothing fancy, straight outta the box... I've seen a lot of examples of the (what I call) brake line mania especially in the wheel wells doesn't matter that when on the shelf nobody will ever see it but they gotta have them....
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Thanks Brother.... Good eye, I got that when I upgraded my camera to a T7i...... It really makes taking closeups easy...
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The Overland Stage Company used yellow and red, the yellow for the chassis is traditional and was carried over when Overland was acquired by Wells Fargo.... (they kept the yellow chassis and just used a simple varnish on the coachwork)
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I completely agree as long as it is recognized that technology is going to make us builders scarcer and scarcer....
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Very nicely done......
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Hi all, still hanging in there... Today I figured that I would slap together one of my easier pieces... Nothing specific about this aircraft except it is a Phantom II.... Here are some pics.... 1/32nd scale kinda big....
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Yep I remember that one as well, but it highlighted the creativity aspect of modeling and made the creative part as easy as thinking I want it this way.... Did nothing for the art of building.... 3D modeling is going to blend the creative part with the building part, (build it in the computer then send it to a file) the printing part becomes nothing but a mechanical representation of your computer skills..... I supposed the finishing, (painting) will get finer and finer though until they figure a way to computer control that as well... In the end, like in Star Trek all you will have to do it ask the computer for whatever you want and a replicator will energy matter transfer it onto your replicator pad, all finished and ready to display..... Damn, that's a bleak future for modeling......
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I haven't even got to split phones yet... {chuckle} And I don't know about younger people, they view the world a lot different that we older farts do....
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That's Hollywood! It really wasn't like that at all... in some ways better, in others worse... in the movies and TV every stagecoach has a shotgun rider, in real life, there was seldom a shotgun rider even when the strongbox was full... Robbing a stagecoach was a very difficult proposition and not tried often... Banks were much much easier.... Heck even robbing a train was easier.... Never take your history from the media.... And in today's world the media includes the supposed news services.... ABC news for example is run by ABC entertainment....
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My pleasure Kevin, Kinda a lucky thing, when I was looking in my stash for pictures of the PWS-10 for Chris I came across this one and several others which I hadn't seen in about six years.... When I read your question, I figured it was time to drag it out.... It does make the cabin suspension system clear doesn't it.... One other thing, in the lower right corner you see the brake return spring mounted to the brake beam which pushes against a block affixed to the frame center rail.... This was the positive release of the brake when they kicked the lever out of it's ratchet pawl lock..... I didn't see that in the kit's plans..... Again my pleasure, glad I still had it.... Good luck... gonna be beautiful....
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Kevin, here's the diagram showing this.... January 1946 Popular Science Overland Stage, Page 118... (#4 of 5 pages) That fairly close to what they are trying to depict in wood, but it's very doable in thin leather or very smooth cloth..... Hope it helps you figure out what they meant to do... EG
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The approx. 1/12th scale Jan. 1946 Popular Mechanics plan for an Overland Stagecoach calls for two plys of thin leather.... The real thing used 4-8 plies depending on how rough the roads were and the size of the coach.... In real life they would be looped thru the shackles on either end and riveted thru iron plates like in a sandwich, plate /leather plies/plate arrangement... The direction of the loop would be down thru the center top of the shackle with the tag end of the leather strips on the bottom to form a tight loop around the shackle pin, when done, it looks like a rubber band that cradles the coach body on each side.... That's the method the PM plans show... They used a similar method of attaching the coach body to the leather supports on the bottom of the body, plate/body floor/leather/plate with through rivets locking the whole assembly together...
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{chuckle} Your hooked and you know it.... No parts included? that's cause they know that they are hooking you....
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I understand, I've actually done that myself several times.... {chuckle}
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My pleasure my friend, I've been collecting these little books for decades... Easily have hundreds of them, and yes, a lot of them are in Polish.... {chuckle} These images came from TBiU #157 Samolot Mysliwski PWS-10... The producer (Polish Ministry of National Defense) is out of the publishing business (since 2006) although you can find them on evilbay quite often and some are even in the internet archive if you want a PDF copy... But the PDF copies are of varying quality some are not even worth downloading.... I don't go tracking them down anymore, but when I need to reference a specific item I usually find it.... Anyway, I hope they help,... (in the pic of the ground looped aircraft, you can clearly see along the aft spine below, (or above in the pic) the horizontal stabilizer, the fairing for the rudder control rod) Lots a detail in those pics...
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My pleasure Dennis, I wish I still had mine then you would have them already.... (but I know you will make it work) I'll be following.....
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Upon further research, (digging around in my very dusty archives) I've come up with some images and I think I lost myself as well... Yes they have a horn much like you showed in your photo.... Very Very close OC, your vision was much better and closer to accurate than mine..... Now on to the images..... You can see the horn, control rod and fairing in the artist's image above.... It was present on the prototype as shown above.... Fueling on the field, but you can clearly see them both in the above photo... Two on each aileron spaced on either side of the aft strut... Ground looped here laying on it's back, you can clearly see both horns..... I know it's a PWS-11, but it is the same wing design and basic fuselage with a radial engine.... The last image is another PWS-11, the final version of the design, still the exact same wing design and you can see the outer horn on the aileron and how the control rod dives directly into the wing from the horn.... I would say at the most about 8" in front of the horn on a straight line forward towards the aft spar of the wing..... That's the best I got brother, as you say there isn't much online for this one but grainy low res images... I hope these higher res ones help... EG
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Excellent Job, that fills the bill perfectly....
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That's the point, there isn't one.... The horn connected to the aileron goes to a faired over pivot point with a leg that enters the wing to where the control rod connects... The horn is no longer mounted on the aileron surface, it's mounted on the wing surface itself...
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Chris, There is no obvious control cables cause they were internal to the wing... The two control horns are "L" shaped bellcranks linked together with the control cables inside the wings.... It is also why you see no control horns for the Elevator or Rudder, they are internal to the fuselage.... Pretty much standard practice in the early '30's
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Now we have a wagonwright in our midst.... Impressive my friend, very impressive.....
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This is why during the time I need to devote to the Admiral, the snippits of time I have is devoted to learning Solidworks.... (exports directly to the needed STL files for 3D Printing) The things I want to build in the future will not be manufactured by model companies in my lifetime so going down this road is an eventuality for me..... This is the future of Modeling wether we like it or not, I'm saying the tech is mature enough now, time to jump in with both feet.... Also whatever is designed, has a ready market for those that do not want to learn the design process..... Download and print..... can you imagine the range of subjects possible? Very impressive Yves.... Very impressive..... EG Ps I've been in stealth mode following from the start, I would never miss something like this.... {chuckle}
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