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aew   Registered Member #1929 Joined: Wed Nov 30 2011, 03:05pmPosts: 2582 | I don't know which impresses me most,: how good a job you're doing or the fact that that engine delivered 180 HP! | ||
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| norb |
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  Registered Member #4131 Joined: Tue Feb 19 2013, 12:57pmPosts: 191 | Sorry about the lack of progress...I'm in the middle of moving and preparing for gallbladder surgery...the best part of it is I'm hopefully gonna have to some time to work on this baby while I recover...I've built the building jig for the fuselage assembly...this assembly is built on the jig upside down, so looking forward to backwards thinking lol | ||
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| norb |
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| Registered Member #4131 Joined: Tue Feb 19 2013, 12:57pmPosts: 191 | Last one... Really want to get started on the fuselage but with a move coming I should probably just continue on the engine...at least I can safely and easily transport this part of the build | ||
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| norb |
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| Registered Member #4131 Joined: Tue Feb 19 2013, 12:57pmPosts: 191 | This pic is a quick overview of the metal parts yet to come... Numerous to say the least, does not include all the wires, thread and tubing that's required to finish the build!... So much fun! Wish me luck and hopefully more pics to come...sooner than later | ||
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| aew Registered Member #1929 Joined: Wed Nov 30 2011, 03:05pmPosts: 2582 | You should have started a new topic, posted that picture of the bulkheads, and invited people to guess what ship you were building.  Hope your op. goes well. | ||
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| Jonathan G |
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  Registered Member #4155 Joined: Thu Mar 14 2013, 09:01pmPosts: 876 | Just stumbled upon your build of the Albatros. It was like old times for me. I completed mine at the beginning of January 2008. It took me four years (starting and stopping due work assignments) but it was pure pleasure. I didn't any real skills, let alone tools, but I persevered. Yous looks like it is coming along nicely. I based mine on the one that is hanging at the Smithsonian Air & Space Museum. I found an out of print book Albatros D.VA German Fighter of World War I by Robert C. Mikesh which was published by the Air & Space Museum as Vol 4 in a series of books of famous aircraft in the museum. It shows how the museum restored the plane complete with diagrams, plans, photographs, and other goodies. If you can find a copy yourself it would be worth your while to obtain it. A few details I would point out that I still remember. - The Britannia metal is very soft and unforgiving when you try to bend any piping. I used metal coat hanger wire (after I sanded off the black paint) where ever I could. It was a bitch to bend but then I didn't have to worry about over bending during fit ups or improper cuts. -The manufacture information plates on the engine and the emblems on the propeller were homemade decals. The manufacture plate were images of real vintage engine plates and the emblem design came from the book. - Getting the shape right for the "leather" ring around the cockpit was accomplished by putting a wire inside the plastic tubing and hiding the seam where the ends met with the binding thread which attached it to the fuselage. It was simply a matter of bending the wire ring to the proper shape. Here are a few images of my completed project      | ||
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| bensid54 |
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 Registered Member #2957 Joined: Wed Jun 13 2012, 05:43amPosts: 953 | Love the detail and accuracy. Thanks for sharing | ||
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| Jorel |
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  Registered Member #1675 Joined: Mon Jul 04 2011, 01:20amPosts: 3 | Just discovered this thread, and I sincerely hope Rob recovered from his surgery and move. It's been a year since he updated this. God Bless. Carl Stark | ||
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