BertUS
Senior Airman
After drooling for several days behind my PC on my work, looking for alllllll the information on this site, I'll introduce my long term project, but remeber, English is for me difficult, so, the texts will not that long and funny as I write in Dutch
It will be a DH Mosquito, mostly the MKIV, but in a stripped down version.
I can hear your mumbling "Why should someone built a model without skin, just take the Tamiya or HKM and built it"
Yeah, right, but I love challence, even now I finished my 1/16 Sopwith Camel, It's looks so great to built a model where you can see the inside of a plane and not only the common stuff like wheelbays, sometimes the engines or maybe the bombbays.
Esspecially the Mossie, wich was built like a ship, first the hull and then the bulkwards , thats intregate me, so I decided to built one from scratch
But for now, one warning, I'm not that very specialist builder, just do it with common tools and it will not a really historical 100% authentic model, I want I could, be I know, thats a mission Impossible for me
Well, I started with collecting pics, drawings (unbelievelable the drawings are not the same in details, every drawer makes his own version
) and started up my Solid Works (I'm a beginner in this CAD program and know only the basics, but I wanted to make it kinda digital so I could think about performance and how to built some things
First a screenshot from my digital scetches
Here the components sort of ut together to see how it will looks
While drawing I discovered time after time errors, so I have to redraw it every time. pfffff, but yoy know, thats the way to learn, making errors and learn from it
I concentrated me on the wing, because for my model it shoud be the baste to built the model up I still thinking about the material, or all wood, or plastic or maybe a hybrid model with wood and plastic
the wing , the rear spar of the airlerons are wrong, I redraw it in the correct position after taking this screenshot
To help me with some 3D views, I bought the Revell Mosquito, just for measurment and overview, maybe I will really built this one as well
For the cockpit, I bougt a Profilmodeler set
nice set, beautiful parts
For some details........................................ (well, I've seen many Walkarounds, but that is alwys the outside, opposite of a woman, now I want to see the insight, so I have to make stills from vids and so
I ask my boss to send me for a year to Canada where we have a couple of plants , so I could look at the restoration of the RS2700 if I rember it correctly
But he said NO, the bastard.........wife and kids are now happy again, dads staying home)
........ I bought this book
And to keep me motivated
Yup. maybe the wrong engines, but I've said it before, it's not my intention to built it 100 % correctly but show the inside of the Wooden wonder
Next challence I given to myself is a workable rudder, elevator and Airlerons, and find out how to make the flaps and undercaariage (maybe the bombdoors) also workable without the hydraulics or pneumatics
It will be a DH Mosquito, mostly the MKIV, but in a stripped down version.
I can hear your mumbling "Why should someone built a model without skin, just take the Tamiya or HKM and built it"
Yeah, right, but I love challence, even now I finished my 1/16 Sopwith Camel, It's looks so great to built a model where you can see the inside of a plane and not only the common stuff like wheelbays, sometimes the engines or maybe the bombbays.
Esspecially the Mossie, wich was built like a ship, first the hull and then the bulkwards , thats intregate me, so I decided to built one from scratch
But for now, one warning, I'm not that very specialist builder, just do it with common tools and it will not a really historical 100% authentic model, I want I could, be I know, thats a mission Impossible for me
Well, I started with collecting pics, drawings (unbelievelable the drawings are not the same in details, every drawer makes his own version
) and started up my Solid Works (I'm a beginner in this CAD program and know only the basics, but I wanted to make it kinda digital so I could think about performance and how to built some thingsFirst a screenshot from my digital scetches
Here the components sort of ut together to see how it will looks
While drawing I discovered time after time errors, so I have to redraw it every time. pfffff, but yoy know, thats the way to learn, making errors and learn from it
I concentrated me on the wing, because for my model it shoud be the baste to built the model up I still thinking about the material, or all wood, or plastic or maybe a hybrid model with wood and plastic
the wing , the rear spar of the airlerons are wrong, I redraw it in the correct position after taking this screenshot
To help me with some 3D views, I bought the Revell Mosquito, just for measurment and overview, maybe I will really built this one as well
For the cockpit, I bougt a Profilmodeler set
nice set, beautiful parts
For some details........................................ (well, I've seen many Walkarounds, but that is alwys the outside, opposite of a woman, now I want to see the insight, so I have to make stills from vids and so
I ask my boss to send me for a year to Canada where we have a couple of plants , so I could look at the restoration of the RS2700 if I rember it correctly
But he said NO, the bastard.........wife and kids are now happy again, dads staying home)
........ I bought this book
And to keep me motivated
Yup. maybe the wrong engines, but I've said it before, it's not my intention to built it 100 % correctly but show the inside of the Wooden wonder
Next challence I given to myself is a workable rudder, elevator and Airlerons, and find out how to make the flaps and undercaariage (maybe the bombdoors) also workable without the hydraulics or pneumatics
