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WarrenD

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Awesome Toko 1/72 Siemens-Schuckert SSW D.IV
« on: November 28, 2014, 02:26:27 AM »
Not my build, but oh, do I wish!  However, it is a completed build post from another site. Check out that counter-rotating rotary engine!

http://www.dishmodels.ru/gshow.htm?p=9420&lng=E

Enjoy!

Warren

PS: If this has been here before, my apologies. Mods, if this belongs somewhere else, please move it. Thanks.

Offline Nigel Jackson

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Re: Awesome Toko 1/72 Siemens-Schuckert SSW D.IV
« Reply #1 on: November 28, 2014, 02:46:01 AM »
Goodness me, Warren, thanks for the link to Valentin's amazing piece of work.

Best wishes
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Re: Awesome Toko 1/72 Siemens-Schuckert SSW D.IV
« Reply #2 on: November 28, 2014, 03:16:21 AM »
That is phenomenal - thanks for posting the link!

Ian

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Re: Awesome Toko 1/72 Siemens-Schuckert SSW D.IV
« Reply #3 on: November 28, 2014, 04:56:24 AM »
Speechless
Thanks for posting the link
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Re: Awesome Toko 1/72 Siemens-Schuckert SSW D.IV
« Reply #4 on: November 28, 2014, 05:15:30 AM »
If I hadn't seen it, I would not have believed it was possible. I couldn't reach that standard if I spent the rest of my life trying.

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Re: Awesome Toko 1/72 Siemens-Schuckert SSW D.IV
« Reply #5 on: November 28, 2014, 06:25:22 AM »
Thanks for posting Warren, what an incredible piece of modeling and in 1:72 scale, totally awesome.

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Re: Awesome Toko 1/72 Siemens-Schuckert SSW D.IV
« Reply #6 on: November 28, 2014, 07:12:01 AM »
If I could get close to that in 1/32 I would be overjoyed.

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Re: Awesome Toko 1/72 Siemens-Schuckert SSW D.IV
« Reply #7 on: November 28, 2014, 07:57:27 AM »
Those crazy Russians, I guess this is what they do during those long, cold winter nights.  ;)  Pieces like this inspire me to continue in 1/72nd. If I was a quarter as good, I'd be a champ!

Glad y'all enjoyed it.

Warren

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Re: Awesome Toko 1/72 Siemens-Schuckert SSW D.IV
« Reply #8 on: November 28, 2014, 09:15:47 AM »
And to think I was so proud of my Toko SSW... That is just amazing. Thanks for sharing this piece of this lesson in humility.
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Re: Awesome Toko 1/72 Siemens-Schuckert SSW D.IV
« Reply #9 on: November 29, 2014, 01:31:32 AM »
engine is going around the wrong way!Nevertheless awsome!

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Re: Awesome Toko 1/72 Siemens-Schuckert SSW D.IV
« Reply #10 on: November 29, 2014, 02:38:10 AM »
engine is going around the wrong way!Nevertheless awsome!

I don't think so, it's a counter-rotating rotary.

Warren

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Re: Awesome Toko 1/72 Siemens-Schuckert SSW D.IV
« Reply #11 on: November 29, 2014, 02:57:33 AM »
Thanks for posting the link to this remarkable model.  1/72 scale!  :o
Cheers,
Bud
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Re: Awesome Toko 1/72 Siemens-Schuckert SSW D.IV
« Reply #12 on: November 29, 2014, 03:31:01 AM »
Utterly speechless. I think I will give up modelling and do something else altogether. Thanks for posting the link.

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Re: Awesome Toko 1/72 Siemens-Schuckert SSW D.IV
« Reply #13 on: November 29, 2014, 07:37:22 AM »
I posted this in my german forum a few days ago too. This so amazing. Far beyond my reach.
Truly inspiring.

But I thinkx Thumbs up is indeed right. The SH I and SH II were counterrotating. But the SH III which was used in this plane not.

We discussed this in my forum and one of the user qouted from a Siemens  Manual:
Die Propellernabe ist an dem Motorengehäuse befestigt und hat KEINE Verbindung zur entgegengesetzt umlaufenden Kurbelwelle.
The propeller hub is attached to the engine housing and has NO connection to the counterrotating crankshaft.

A model thrives on its overall impression and not on that every little disagreement over the original is hyped up as a disaster

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Re: Awesome Toko 1/72 Siemens-Schuckert SSW D.IV
« Reply #14 on: November 29, 2014, 08:37:45 AM »
Oh well!  :P :-[

Warren