Recent content by Colin L

Excellent drawings, thanks very much! Colin

I'm preparing to start a Sanger 1/48 Sunderland Mk III, would anyone have a good set of plans for this monster? Any help would be appreciated, Thanks, colin

Cyberhobby BF-110D has engines, and is still available. Bf110D-1/R1 "Dackelbauch", Cyber Hobby 5556 (2010)

Those photo's are marvelous, thank you so very much! This 'little' project is all coming into focus now! I'm thinking this will be next up, after I finish my 2 Kingfishers. I can hardly wait to start hacking and chopping!

Thanks, those are excellent photos! I did not know that all CSR-110's had the ski fitting on the wing floats, something else to add! Would you know which serial numbers were built without the Tri-Phibian feature (this is complicated enough!) Thanks, Colin

Yes. I think we are on the same page, the 70" plug that Grumman added outboard of the nacelle would have the same airfoil shape as the center section, at least on the inboard side. And in all probability the outboard side as well. When the outboard wing section was redesigned to eliminate the...

Let me start by saying I truly do appreciate your help with this, and I am only trying to be as accurate as possible. Neither photos nor aerodynamics would support the idea that adding a drooped leading edge in the last 30" of the tip extension would help with stabilizing the airflow over the...

I don't think I can agree with this, Grumman redesigned the outboard wing with a leading edge 'cuff' or droop in order to eliminate the leading edge slot of the 'A' wing. The photos at the wing tip clearly show the drooped leading edge. What you are describing is 'washout' - the twist or...

I've looked at the RVHP no.48038 Grumman HU-16B Albatross resin kit, and the problems there are you would still have to change the engines, props, cowl and nacelle, plus the only ones still available are on Ebay (vs. the widely available Trumpeter kit). I've corresponded with the fellow on Ebay...

Yep, those are the SRM illustrations that I have. For the horizontal stab, they give the span, and the chord at the tip, but nothing on the chord at the root, where it attaches to the vertical stab. In the photos, it appears to be 6 to 12 inches longer there. On the Hull Station drawing sta.614...

Excellent, thanks. That answers that! It looks like the leading edge droop (cuff) starts at the nacelle, and becomes more pronounced as it moves outboard. The third photo down also shows the cowling and nacelle bulge very well.

I have the Grumman SRM wing and horizontal stab station diagrams that show the increased span of both, but what they don't have is the chord of the stab, and the cross section of the wing showing the 'cuffed' leading edge and where it starts to curl down. On this photo, it appears that the wing...

I'm looking at converting the Trumpeter 1/48 HU-16A Albatross to an HU-16B (more specifically, an RCAF CSR-110). I plan on using S2F cowls, engines and props for the correct powerplants, and 'bulging' the nacelles. I'm aware of the wing and wingtip extensions, the larger span horizontal stab...

Sure am!

I used Tamiya acrylics. For the RAF Green - Dark Green XF-82, for the flat earth 2 parts Khaki XF-49 and 1 part Flat Earth XF-52. The RAF sky blue is 1 part Light Blue XF-23 and 1 part flat white XF-02.