St Valentine's DayThe last update...
First the mentioned missing detail. Some drawings and especially the good photos showed a pitot tube with a bracket on the outer left strut, outside the influence of the propeller.
The pitot tube itself is a 0.3mm micro tube, soldered in a 0.5mm tube, plus a cone and a 0.4mm tube with narrowest sheet metal strips as brackets to form one unit.
After tinning and burnishing the head, 0.2mm lead wires were glued in as leads ...
... and the unit was glued to the model. So, now the Howard can measure his record speed
And then something else came to my mind, now it will be funny: Today is Valentine's Day, the day of the florists!
A friend of mine used to supply me with flowers for my Daisycutter dio, and left a few more. I found them in the depths of my craft cave
With a few shreds of it and thin tissue paper I wrapped two bouquets.
On the photos after the flight these bouquets can be recognized by the front struts, here for example
Source: rcgroups.net
What else happened?
The bracing ropes are painted metallically, and with oil paints and pastels I soiled the tabloid.
What do you think, leave the flowers on? Or does that not work / is it too much of a good thing? I don't want it to become a diorama, the Tabloid will sit next to sister Lebed in the showcase.
When the oil paint has hardened, I'll go over it with clear varnish, maybe a little
Smoke.
This is the end of my build report
I hope you enjoyed reading it as much as I enjoyed building the model!
Cheers,
Frank
PS: With the completion of this model the probability increases that a manufacturer with a kit for this version will come around the corner :-)
