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Title: Morane Saulnier Type BB--Putting it together
Post by: scottzepher on June 13, 2011, 11:09:29 PM
Taking some time off from the SE-5a, I started assembing the Type BB.  My wife Helen painted the Lion on the fuselage, and once that was done, I was able to attach the lower wing.  This past weekend, I attached the lower fin to size up the rigging for the tail skid.  The other brass pieces are the main wing struts.

(http://smm.solidmodelmemories.net/Gallery/albums/userpics/10017/normal_PIC_0141.JPG)
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Title: Re: Morane Saulnier Type BB--Putting it together
Post by: lastvautour on June 14, 2011, 01:02:26 AM
Looks Real good so far.

Lou
Title: Re: Morane Saulnier Type BB--Putting it together
Post by: scottzepher on June 17, 2011, 04:03:35 AM
Thanks, Lou!
Title: Re: Morane Saulnier Type BB--Putting it together
Post by: Balsabasher on June 17, 2011, 11:54:58 AM
I just love it,the red really sets this unique subject off,well done Scott !
Barry
Title: Re: Morane Saulnier Type BB--Putting it together
Post by: scottzepher on June 21, 2011, 01:59:12 AM
Thank you Barry.  Helen did some great sketches, which helped me visualize what it would look like. 
Title: Re: Morane Saulnier Type BB--Putting it together
Post by: Balsabasher on June 21, 2011, 10:25:03 AM
Sketching and solids go hand in hand,as you say you can plan and visualise things before you cut any timber.
Barry.
Title: Re: Morane Saulnier Type BB--Putting it together
Post by: scottzepher on July 20, 2012, 12:52:23 PM
Okay, been a while since I tried to add a photo, but here's a shot of the windshield detail:

http://smm.solidmodelmemories.net/Gallery/displayimage.php?pid=7171
(http://smm.solidmodelmemories.net/Gallery/albums/userpics/10017/normal_PIC_0562.JPG)
Title: Re: Morane Saulnier Type BB--Putting it together
Post by: lastvautour on July 20, 2012, 08:28:05 PM
Nice work Scott.

Lou

To place an image in a post you must open the image in the gallery, go to the image property and select the URL and past that into the image brackets.
Title: Re: Morane Saulnier Type BB--Putting it together
Post by: scottzepher on July 24, 2012, 02:00:40 AM
Quote from: lastvautour on July 20, 2012, 08:28:05 PM
Nice work Scott.

Lou

To place an image in a post you must open the image in the gallery, go to the image property and select the URL and past that into the image brackets.

Thanks, Lou.  Looks like that's what I did, thought it didn't look that way at first.
Title: Re: Morane Saulnier Type BB--Putting it together
Post by: scottzepher on June 30, 2014, 08:52:49 PM
Well, hello everybody!  Long time no post, I know.  My workshop was broken into, about this time a year ago.  Insurance paid for the damage and replaced most of the items that were stolen, but it took me a long time to want to go back.  The there was that Winter thing a few months back, I don't think I would have been able to be in the shop for more than a few minutes. 
Got right back to work in the MS Type BB, hoping to attach the top wing, and apply all those lovely struts for which biplanes are famous.  Good thing I test-fitted the struts again, because the upper wing holes were WAY OFF!  Today I managed to re-set the wing properly.

(http://smm.solidmodelmemories.net/Gallery/albums/userpics/10017/063020141425B15D.jpg)



Title: Re: Morane Saulnier Type BB--Putting it together
Post by: Peter on June 30, 2014, 10:08:58 PM
Looks great Scott! Sorry to hear about your break in problems.

Peter
Title: Re: Morane Saulnier Type BB--Putting it together
Post by: scottzepher on July 01, 2014, 02:36:52 AM
Thanks, Peter. 
Title: Re: Morane Saulnier Type BB--Putting it together
Post by: lastvautour on July 01, 2014, 12:42:59 PM
Coming along nicely despite the setback. We have a time where some people don't care about the collateral damage they cause. I would feel violated if it happened to me . Good luck on finishing the project.

Lou
Title: Re: Morane Saulnier Type BB--Putting it together
Post by: Balsabasher on July 01, 2014, 06:07:37 PM
Really sorry to hear about that break in,the morons of society who never try or think to buy things themselves or work hard,but what comes around as they say is true.
Lovely little model in red with that intricate design coming along nicely.

Barry.
Title: Re: Morane Saulnier Type BB--Putting it together
Post by: scottzepher on July 03, 2014, 01:41:31 AM
Lou and Barry,

Violated is definitely the word.  Turns out our garage was part of a crime spree; I felt like "I appreciate the police presence and all, but a 'heads-up' might have helped."  Insurance was terrific, though: had a resto team out within hours of reporting the break-in, had enough after the repairs to replace about 90% of the items (though a lot were hand tools that were basically inherited from generations on both sides), and they didn't give me any stress about how the money was spent.  One thing that got me through it all: It could have been a LOT worse.  My band saw (huge Sears floor model, waited years to get), sat at the other end of my work table.  They could have picked it up, dragged it across the table and destroyed years of modeling. 
Title: Re: Morane Saulnier Type BB--Putting it together
Post by: cliff strachan on July 03, 2014, 04:37:00 PM
It is truly a very nice model, Scott. And I'm very sorry about the break-in. I'm afraid though that it's a lot like moving.
For comparison purposes,  the movers have informed me that I had enough books - although I haven't been able to find some of them so I guess that they were correct?
Cliff.
Title: Re: Morane Saulnier Type BB--Putting it together
Post by: Oceaneer99 on July 03, 2014, 06:30:06 PM
I'm sorry to hear about the break-in, Scott.  Glad to see you are back in the shop!

Garet
Title: Re: Morane Saulnier Type BB--Putting it together
Post by: scottzepher on July 05, 2014, 01:46:42 AM
Quote from: cliff strachan on July 03, 2014, 04:37:00 PM
It is truly a very nice model, Scott. And I'm very sorry about the break-in. I'm afraid though that it's a lot like moving.
For comparison purposes,  the movers have informed me that I had enough books - although I haven't been able to find some of them so I guess that they were correct?
Cliff.

O.M.G!  I would have freaked, Cliff!  I had a little over 200 books when I moved here about 10 years ago, and those were the books in my personal library, not including my wife's craft/hobby books, my kids books or the small library we had set up for the kids' homeschooling.  Books still outnumber our other so-called 'valuables.'
I am suddenly sooo thankful I supervised the move personally. 

ScottZepher
Title: Re: Morane Saulnier Type BB--Putting it together
Post by: cliff strachan on July 05, 2014, 05:05:25 PM
Good Luck again, Scott. I'm sure you've thought of this already, but don't be like me in leaving your reading until it's too late. For a number of reasons - and I won't even tell you now (although it would be an interesting story) - now it seems by late I refer to the fact that I seem to fall asleep. So we have to model, read, exercise and work. Something like that!

Cliff. 
Title: Re: Morane Saulnier Type BB--Putting it together
Post by: scottzepher on June 07, 2015, 08:15:48 PM
Finally have a chance to share what I've been doing with the BB recently.  Once I had the strut issues figured out, I screwed up the courage to attempt that scourge of every biplane build: RIGGING!!!! As I mentioned in the gallery pics, the 24 gauge (??) filament I used is rather difficult to capture on (ha, I was going to type film) media, but I can assure you it is there, and it is not Photoshopped onto the picture.  Man, do I pick the hard stuff!

(http://smm.solidmodelmemories.net/Gallery/albums/userpics/10017/normal_PIC_0780.JPG)

(http://smm.solidmodelmemories.net/Gallery/albums/userpics/10017/normal_PIC_0781.JPG)
Title: Re: Morane Saulnier Type BB--Putting it together
Post by: Peter on June 07, 2015, 09:25:39 PM
Nicely done! How did you anchor the filament to the wings?

Peter
Title: Re: Morane Saulnier Type BB--Putting it together
Post by: lastvautour on June 07, 2015, 09:38:53 PM
Welcome back. The Type BB looks great and that rigging does look very delicate.

Lou
Title: Re: Morane Saulnier Type BB--Putting it together
Post by: scottzepher on June 07, 2015, 10:21:07 PM
Thank you both!  I got the idea, Peter, from my friends at "Wings Of Peace"  (Yahoo forum).  It entails securing the filament strings into the main strut holes, but while plastic models (and larger wooden ones like my SE-5a) allow for multiple holes,  I then tied the strand very carefully to the next strut, making absolutely sure I have the tension right, applying a tiny dap of cryno (AKA superglue), and so on.  Biggest problem: keeping four strands of filament from catching on every little thing while setting the fuselage struts into place. 
Title: Re: Morane Saulnier Type BB--Putting it together
Post by: Boomerang on June 07, 2015, 11:57:18 PM

Looks great!
Well done with the rigging.

  Gordon
Title: Re: Morane Saulnier Type BB--Putting it together
Post by: scottzepher on June 08, 2015, 01:43:42 PM
Thanks Gordon!
Title: Re: Morane Saulnier Type BB--Putting it together
Post by: scottzepher on May 14, 2018, 11:36:55 PM
Final assembly with wheels and nose.  I'm going to try another first with the markings: computer-printed decals!

Title: Re: Morane Saulnier Type BB--Putting it together
Post by: lastvautour on May 15, 2018, 01:12:14 AM
Looking great Tom. Your delecate treatment on wing and fuselage ribbing came out well.

Lou