Landing gearSo my friends of the micro mechanics - after a long period of silence due to family and X-mas I now able to continue my work on this project.
I started to handle the gear.
Axle is bended outside to get tilted wheels and the diameter in the wheels is bigger.
That is not very original, but there are moulding limits.
Some problems:
1. Axle
- prepared for metal half axle,
2. to wide
- shortened the middle part removes details, still to wide on the picture,
3. struts are now to long due to new angle
So I made a new , mainly for struts. The lowest part is a tube!
With all the nice drawings and pictures in the Datafile and especially in the "Cross & Cockades" book I will made a new brass construction from scratch.
- lowest part is a 0.9mm tube,
- soldered struts (1.4mm squezzed pipe to 0.8 x 1.8mm) to it.
- connected with a 0.6mm brass pin (suspension limit and stabilising)
- from outside 0.7mm pins for suspension soledered into drilled hole.
Inside 0.4mm brass pins to hold the middle part. Looks shorter in drawing due to the angle.
What about the middle part? may be the plastic part, but ...
The drawing in "Cross & Cockades" book showed a closed (no axles visible) underside?
Found this pictures on the WNW pages:
Soruce: wingnutwings.com
So a new plan: wooden part, here in a raw form. Thinner at all and thinned on the back side.
The Hendon restauration pictures shows a metal part, so I covered it with thin brass 0.05mm and soldered on the back side. Opened the cut outs only on upper side.
Plugged together, the 0,8mm nickel-silver axles needed to be cutted to real size.
Compared to the original - the suspension will be made from stretched sprue.
Sorry Edgar - but is is still a great kit!!!
Cheers,
Frank