DH-2 Work In Progress
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Rotary engine (Small Stuff kit)
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seat mostly Eduard, and wood
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turned /milled fuel caps
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laminated wooden propeller
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tail boom metal construction
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wooden stringers
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soldered etched wings
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wood coloring with oil colors
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Wing rigging on upper wing
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lower wing also done.
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single and double RAF wires
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framed rigging with RAF wires
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ignition
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engine mounted - can rotate!
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Front of prop
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Backside of pusher prop
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Test fitting prop
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Rigging of tail
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suspension
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Fuel pipe
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Rigging to fuselage
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rigging of landing gear
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double wires to rudder
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scratched link
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Rudder wiring outside the frame
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Kommentit
2 1 August 2016, 20:14
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This 1 cent comparison is really making it worse to believe that this has been assembled! 🙂 If you put a 28cm Frisbee next to it, that would be something for me 🙂🙂🙂
2 August 2016, 08:13
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Thx mates, but this will take some time and a lot of work until finished!
3 August 2016, 19:14
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looks very nice, makes me think twice about my brengun kit in 1:144
17 August 2016, 15:13
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Thank you! The brengun kit seems to be a very nice one, especially in that small scale.
This was not the first engine of that company I puzzled together, I like this kits! See my gallery.
At the moment I'm doing rigging heavily and sitting between lots of wires 😠
18 August 2016, 20:53
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Thank you! Yes, its 1:48 👍. The rigging is in meantime completely finished, so it will be finished soon.
11 September 2016, 17:17
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pff, I'll take my hat of to you and your patience... mighty nice and fine work...
12 September 2016, 07:31
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Thanks mates! I added the final building pictures and a new gallery for the finished model 🙂
18 September 2016, 10:16
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Thanks Christian, with a Eduard kit, Gaspatch turnbuckles, a lof of brass and patience 😎
25 September 2016, 17:05
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Thx mates! And don't miss the final gallery of the completed model, it is attached to the project.
26 September 2016, 17:28
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Question; the metal parts of the fuselage look a litle blotchy, what gives a very natural metal look. How did you do that?
22 April 2017, 08:02
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After primer the base metal color is Alclad "Dark Alu", which can be made a bit darker with Alclad "Steel". After that I painted small lines of an acrylic metal paint form Gunze (brighter metal like silver or alu are possible) using a small brush and polished it immediately using a cotton bud. The final step is a light washing with dark oil colors.
24 April 2017, 18:39
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Thanks Glenn, but I think it is a bit hard, to call the models of the user "someone" TOYS 🤔
25 April 2017, 17:56
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Glenn is on a rampage to get Hot Wheels removed from this site 🙂
Can't blame him 👍
This bird is looking beautiful Bug!
25 April 2017, 18:03
Album info
Some impressions from my bench.