WIP - Ansaldo S.V.A. 5
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For a more living aircraft I cut the ailerons and made new hinges.
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The same with the tail plane, but instead of styrene I used here 0.2mm nickel silver. Can be filed in form and still do not look liek golden brass.
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The kit contains some resin exhaust outlets with mount plates on the back, but I made real metal open pipes, which can be mounted after painting of fuselage.
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As on my other projects I sanded an air screw, here in front view.
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The back side is more nice.
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Some work on axle and bearing, in a side view.
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I think this will look nicely later and is able to rotate easily.
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A block of eight soldered brass PE stripes.
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Filed and drilled into the left block, also another block of 12 plates.
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De-soldered into single plates, bend them and soldered onto the base plates.
On top right some work is needed for a different type.
On top right some work is needed for a different type.
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A huge amount of wooden struts needs to be sanded into final shape.
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One working example: the flat, not shaped end of a strut is bolted into a holder.
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I forgot a picture of the kit struts. I had to change it!
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The parts for the undercarriage. Wanted to have a longer metal axle, to show open pipes on the side of the wheels.
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A new axle, with washers created on lathe, but not yet fixed in place. But how to fix this new axle on the "board"?
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This ends up in new scratch work! I squeezed brass pipes and bend them into the needed angle. This was hard work! I drilled holes and soldered brass pins into it as suspension holders.
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I made a new wooden board and added side pins to the brass parts, with matching holes in the board. The washers on the axle are soldered to final position.
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Plugged together.
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And in a side view for better understanding.
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A reference is really helpful!
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In raw form. Later I finalized the shape a bit more.
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Axle was cleaned and tinned and wooden parts painted.
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On the left the tail skid from the kit, on a picture in the Datafile. The size was according to the drawings, but the plastic is very brittle. So I had to replace it anyway to be able to travel to exhibitions.
I made a laminated spring from nickel silver (brass was too soft) and prebend every single layer of different size. At the end of the block I soldered the layers together. The clamp was made from a thinner nickel silver stripe, bolted with 0.33mm nickel silver. As final step the spring was chemical browned ("brünieren" in German).
I made a laminated spring from nickel silver (brass was too soft) and prebend every single layer of different size. At the end of the block I soldered the layers together. The clamp was made from a thinner nickel silver stripe, bolted with 0.33mm nickel silver. As final step the spring was chemical browned ("brünieren" in German).
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Again in a side view.
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The holding clamp to the fuselage was made from two "U". After a lot of drilling and filing I soldered the second thin "U" for strengthening to one side. I filed also the end of the spring more flat and soldered it into the U. The little wedge is made from real wood.
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The wedge was glued onto the spring. The whole tail skid is here plugged on to the fuselage and can be later mounted with five little "bolts" on each side.
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I used the upper sides of the second "U" as mounting points for the tailplane struts, since I was not able to cut and bend out the ear as on original mount due to the small scale.
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And because it's so nice, here's how the tail skid can support the fuselage even without bolting it on.
Comentarii
10 29 December 2020, 21:00
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With the finish of the last project of the little Fokker D.V I can't find motivation to continue to work on a shelf queen, so I started another one.
I have not yet build a model from a short run kit of the company Fly, but have some in my stash. So I decided to build this elegant Italian biplane!
Damn, this was a lot of work on the details, but I hope it will enhance the look of this elegant biplane!
I would be very happy if one or the other accompanies me on this journey😉
29 December 2020, 21:05
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Mich beeindruckt immer wieder Deine saubere Arbeit. Wie spannst Du diese Winzteile zum bearbeiten eigtl. ein, ohne das sie (wie bei mir) ständig wegflitschen?
30 December 2020, 09:08
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Welcome to the show mates! This project is fun for sure😉
So ein Block kann man schon im Mini-Schraubstock halten. Ansonsten mit den Pinzetten nur leicht halten, keine großen Kräfte, sonst sagt es "Fling!".
30 December 2020, 13:57
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David and Daniel, welcome to the show!
Today I created a new undercarriage😉
30 December 2020, 18:10
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With all the scratching you do treat us to a complete scratch build{jealousy is a terrible thing)LOL.
30 December 2020, 18:25
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Thank you mates!
James, it is very hard to paint correct layers on such air screw, so I create wooden air screws foo all my planes😉 I tried it it also in 1:72, so my Fokker E.V strip down has also a wooden prop (with 0.3mm layers). Only real wood looks like wood 🙂
David, I will use wings, fuselage and tail from the kit, so only small parts are replaced. One day I will do a complete scratch build - I already have and idea. I made some experiments, but the quality was not acceptable. So I need a new idea for tooling before that project can really start. But until then I have enough kits in my stash😉
30 December 2020, 19:03
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Welcome mates!
@Burkhard Hab ja gefühlt Ewigkeiten nichts gehört - schön, von Dir zu Lesen 👍
@Bilbo Lockdown udn ein paar Tage frei😉
31 December 2020, 10:46
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Oh, oh, another bughuntershow.
Fixing my chin with another mask and taking a seat.
31 December 2020, 11:28
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Oh yes Christoph! I can't stop, especially with some days spare time 👍
31 December 2020, 15:04
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Crafting a masterpiece again from natural materials with the occasional bit of the original model again..? Fabulous work - as said times and again - great pleasure watching things & techniques that are in the same hobby and which I will probably never (be able to) do! 👍
PS: Watched Myazaki's "The wind rises" over the Holidays (it's on Netflix), so most happy to see an Italian biplane, albeit not a Caproni...😉
1 January 2021, 23:48
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My first update in the new year. There was a nice support with new pictures and drawings, it was too tempting to turn to the tail skid immediately!
I am satisfied with the result - this is one of the nicest detail I ever made. It's really fun when you guys are egging me on too.
2 January 2021, 20:18
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What you are showing with the SVA model is complete fantasy. I'm looking forward to the next sequel :-D
2 January 2021, 23:17
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Thx mates!
@Ludvik You name it "SVA model" Wikipedia says: A model is a simplified representation of reality.
So I create downscaled originals.😉
2 January 2021, 23:29
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Taking a seat. Photo 8-10: complete genius!!
Would love to hear you elaborate on your scratch built idea 🙂
3 January 2021, 13:20
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Fascinating and impressive as always Frank!
That tail skid is a thing of beauty in itself.
9 January 2021, 16:07
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Thank you mates, but I must admit that this project has reached the state "On hold". It converted into a heavy scratch work project, but I do not have solutions for all problems. So I put it to the shelf and started already a hopefully more oob build (complete oob seems to be not possible for me), more soon.
9 January 2021, 17:21