Templates have been cut and wood for the main components selected.
Lou
'Two' Balsa Cub's,thats great,quite a few kit manufacturers advertised Cub kits in early 'Flying Aces' magazines.
Barry.
I am some what concerned about making the engine look half decent. I am about to undertake some research on that subject.
Lou
Make the cylinders from dowel wrapped with thread,the cooling baffles can be made from card impregnated with thin cyno which sets like steel,plugs are pins wth cotton leads tack glued and thin cyno stiffens them up.
Barry.
I attempted to do the engine cylinder from card stock as per Ollie's method of building up objects but my fat fingers and the smallness of the pieces have made that all but impossible. I will try wire over wood later. For now the major components are cut out.
Lou
A brace of Piper Cub's.
Barry.
If you need engine photos, shoot me an email! I fly two Cubs.
Ryan
www.texastailwheel.com
Thank you Ryan. I have a plan in mind. Should that fail I will be contacting you. Nice to see you on line.
Lou
Prototype A-65 engines. Not quite where I want them yet.
Lou
The J-3 has been idle for far to long. I carved one fuselage and the top of one wing. The rib pattern still need to be sanded in. I have two engines but they not much to my liking yet.
Lou
Tail feathers attached and wing dihedral being set with super glue.
Lou
Coming on well, I may try the superglue instead of Gorilla Glue next time, What ink do you use for marking on the painted surfaces Lou ?, on matt I have had problems with it spreading,and on gloss it takes a long time to dry and smudges very easily. I have used the Sharpie pens and Staedtler pigment liners. Regards Paul J.
In this case just a ball point pen. I have had problems in the pass also.
Lou
Hummmmm!!!!!!
Was that a pondering Hummmmm!!!!! or an I'm not happy Hummmmm!!!!! ?
Don't look right. Need to down load some pictures and get the putty out. Having trouble finding a picture from the top showing the cowling.
Lou
Is this any good Lou, I know it's for an RC version but it does have a three view including looking down where you need. Regards Paul J.
http://manuals.hobbico.com/top/rc28-j3-cub-manual.pdf
Thanks Paul. I found one in an old magazine I had on the Golden Era. Here is the undercarriage and the engine can be seen in a couple of shots. I still need push rods and an exhaust but that will come with time. I am proceeding with the J-3 as I do not have enough wood to start the L-19. So much to do, so little money!! Ah isn't retirement grand?
Lou
Wow Lou I'm envious of the idea of retirement. I took a promotion at work on Monday and I'm already regretting it. It's Thursday and I have logged 61 hours and I don't have a day off until next Tuesday.....enjoy every minute of retirement. I can't wait !!!!
U/C looks good Lou, retirement means retirement from paid work!!, you then get to do all the jobs you didn't have time to do because you were at work!. But that suits me fine, no deadlines to meet or boss to please, just yourself. I hope the wife doesn't read this. Regards Paul
That last comment keeps me busy also. Occupational hazard of being retired. I retired from the Air Force on a Friday and started work on the next Monday doing pretty much what I did in uniform. That was a mistake big time. I finally retired and have been enjoying it eversince.(Less the honey do list)
Lou
Cylinders, push rods and exhaust installed although the exhaust pipes are a bit too long. I will consider replacing them at some point. Started work on the second Cub and will do a military one. Canada did not use the Cub in any military fashion.
Lou
The Cub is finished. I may revisit the nose area at some later time.
Lou
Well done Lou! I really like the ribbing.
Peter
The ribs are two thickness of tape with the top one being half the width. I will try something new on the L-4 version. I will let everyone know if it works. Here is summary of my High Wing Wonder fleet.
Lou
Turned out well Lou, as Peter said the ribbing looks effective. A nice addition to your high wing collection. Regards Paul J.
Thank you Peter and Paul. I have since added the tail plane guide wires which I had forgotten about. I looked to see if I could convert my existing parts to a PA-18 but the measurement are off a bit. The advantage to later Piper models is that the cylinders are not exposed.
Lou
That is a real nice collection of a type of aircraft that must rank as one of the most difficult to model. Of course I think that DBK is the nicest.
Cliff.
The biggest problem is the exposed cylinders and making them look good. They are not round like a radial engine but kind of squarish.
Lou
What I was concerned about the most was how you were proposing to "blend" the wing into or rather make up the portion of the cabin windshield that takes up part of the wing. Hope you know what I mean. It's even hard to describe. But I guess that you glued the wing on top of the fuselage and then sanded it smooth to hide any resulting "lines". A very good job whatever way you chose to go about this problem - a problem in engineering that is not common to the competing medium.
Cliff.
On a second check of your photos I see that you didn't use this method after all but rather you elected to include all of the windshield in or with the fuselage and then fix the wing by itself to the body. Neat.
Cliff, there is a bit of putty used to blend the wing to the windscreen. I discovered long after I had cut the wing that I need to extend the inner edge into the windscreen. The L-4 has the wing sitting on top of the fuselage rather than knotched in but I have yet to carved the windscreen.
Lou
The L-4 is moving right along. Roll out anticipated within the week.
Lou
PS Apologies for the poor quality of photos.
Looking great Lou, that tape ribbing is really effective.Regards Paul J.
I was planning to place a thread and cover it with tape to give the rib effect but that caused more problem than what it was worth so instead I placed three layers of tape on my glass and cut them as such. It gave much more definition to the ribs. Still experimenting after 50 years of joy. Printing decals this morning. Did some last night and had to scrap them. Practice, practice, practice!!!!
Lou
Roll out (part 1)
Roll out (Part 2)
Impressive work Lou, the engines turned out really well. Regards Paul J.
The addition of black paper cylinder cowls help to make the look. Thanks for your comments.
Lou