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    Fw190D build

    in Build Blogs and Kit Reviews

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    OK chaps, Thank You for your interest.

    I am off out flying today, so no updates yet, but I did say it would be slow.

    bbc will do my best. The basic build at present is balsa with ply in high-stress areas, eg around retract positions and leading to the firewall - I will post a few photos of those areas later today - for those that can remember, I did a series of Finishing Techniques in the RC Scale magazine edited by Tony Dowdeswell during the early 2000's. The Series title was "Start to Finish" under the nom-de-plume Friedrich Wurger. One of the shortest sentences was with regard to "weathering" and stated.... "Much too little, is far superior to a little too much".

    Thanks again,

    maurice

    Fw190D build

    in Build Blogs and Kit Reviews

    Posted

    Hello All,

    This is a build record of a Fw190D. The model is to a scale of 1/5.2 or 1-inch = 2.3 feet. The reason is stated “190D” is simply because I have not yet decided on which sub-type it is to be, either D-11, 12 or 13.

    The fuselage was started at the extreme end of 2006 and by mid- February 2007 I had part constructed the fuselage. Then disaster struck and my wife became very incapacitated. Consequently I had absolutely no time for building any sort of model or even putting together an ARTF. A couple of years later, a little time became available but not yet enough to build, so I commissioned a very good friend to build a pair of wings, join them and epoxy glass cover them.

    For the past few weeks I have been working on a Greenley (a model similar to a large Wot 4 with a span of 84-inches. Having reached a natural “break-point” on that I started reviewing the parts of the 190D and decided to finish it. Obviously this will be an extended build because of the work on the Greenley and also on a 1/6 scale 190D-13.

    The wing is a straight Dave Platt 190A/F/G wing except there are some changes at the extreme leading edge by the fuselage junction. The fuselage is a totally different matter. The basic shape was refined from aircraft drawings produced by the forefront expert in England on full-size 190 shapes and construction. The design of the model fuselage construction is entirely mine.

    I have already started repairing the wing where some “hangar rash” had been incurred during storage and I have executed a small amount of work around the exhaust area.

    I have already stated that this will be an extended build for the reasons stated (but I do want it completed asap), so please bear with me.

    Is there any interest in me continuing this build blog please?

    Thanks for looking

    maurice

    Edited By maurice northcott on 18/02/2017 17:41:29

    Anybody know stuff about aircraft carriers?

    in Full Size Aviation

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    Hi All,

    These are lattice masts (commonly known as "hockey post" masts in the RN - because the curved top made them reminiscent of hockey sticks) that support the long wire aerials for the High Frequency radio sets used for inter-ship and ship-air use. They are definitely not radar aerials. As time went on, these communications were dealt with by VHF which required either "blade" or "whip" aerials as seen in (generally) post-WW2 aircraft carriers......

    HTH

    maurice

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