Jim Newberry - Nuviation Ltd.
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Well I have been steadily working on the M23c but the day job has been getting in the way a bit - now I have a couple of weeks off and hope to make some real progress on the model. This is where I have got to so far... Fuselage sides made up. Forward formers and battery tray added. Rear formers added, turtle deck planking complete. Tail blocks glued in place with a spacer to keep everything straight and I have bent a piece of steel to make a tail skid. The tail blocks have been planed and sanded to shape. Meanwhile, I have made up the battery hatch frame. The hatch skins have been soaked in hot water and are currently drying around this cardboard tube. I hope to increase the rate of progress over the next couple of weeks!
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Thanks for sharing that Lorenz. That is significantly bigger than mine and a stunning looking model! Mine will be more of a "practical scale" machine!
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The tail surfaces are complete in outline at least - they all need shaping in profile but I couldn't help putting them together just to see how they look so far. Fuselage work starts tomorrow.
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That is very nice indeed! Thanks for posting those - I'm going to have my work cut out!
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Thanks Karl-Georg, if you can post a picture of your model I'd love to see it! As for the racing pedigree, the M23b won both the 1929 Ostpreussenflug and Circuit of Europe races, while the M23c was developed for, and won, the Circuit of Europe the following year - so it's not entirely unreasonable to call it a racer by the standards of the day. Jim.
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I'm already at least six months late starting this one but here is my latest endeavour - a BFW M23c. The full size aircraft was a between the wars racer designed by Willy Messerschmitt, so it could be said to be the forerunner of the Me109 in the same way that the S6B was the forerunner of the Spitfire. If you look at the tail surfaces in particular, you can see they closely resemble the shapes that would appear on the 109. The wingspan of the model will be 78", making for a scale of approximately 1:5. The plans have been drawn up, the laser cut parts arrived a couple of weeks ago and I managed to make a quick start over the weekend. I really must crack on with things - I want to have this flying before the end of summer. So this is what I want to end up with... Full set of laser cut parts waiting to be released from their sheets. After a conversation with George at 4-Max, a suitable powertrain was ordered... Laser cut parts released and piled up. The edges need cleaning up to remove the bumps left from the sheets, but I have never found it necessary to completely remove the slightly burned edges, except where they will show through the covering. Tail surfaces beginning to be stuck together. It's a small start, but a start nonetheless!
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Looks like a great day out DD, good to see the Puddleduck in the air! With rudder/elevator models I always have the rudder on the right stick - the way I look at it, mode two puts the primary roll control on the right stick. With a four channel model this would be the ailerons but for a three channel model it will always be the rudder. Hope you get plenty more flights in over the summer!
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Looks good DD! Hope the maiden goes well. I have to say, I like the brown paper dodge, I'm going to file that one away for future use. Jim.
