After Introduction Models

[Zabu]

Thx guys!

I'll bet building that hanger was lots of fun. Makes me want to try my hand at one too.

Cheers,

Chris

@Chris:

I had lots of fun getting the hanger together, specially because balsa wood makes it so easy.
You can really see your work being done quite fast.

The tricky part it's the canvas of the cover (tracing paper cover). For a great result i advise you to paint what would be the inner side of the cover BEFORE you shape it as a cover and to paint the wooden structure of the hanger too (if you decide to age the wood a bit), BEFORE trying to apply the cover.

After all the scissoring and adjusting of the cover, the next step will be to make it stiff. So put it in place (over structure), grab some paper glue (that white one) and with a brush give it a nice coat.

The cover will be whitish and very wrinkled in this fase, but as the paper glue dries it will make a translucid and nicely stretched cover.
If you take it out later it will be very very hard to get it in place again and that stretched look will fade away.

I just hope you to understand my bad english...sorry.

[lone modeller]

Zabu,
 Do not apologise for your English - it is quite clear enough and I am sure that we can all understand you clearly. I am very impressed by your hanger and the method used to make it. Where did you get the plans from? Could you e-mail some to me if you had my e-mail address? Alternatively could you put the plans on a post? Copyright permitting of course. I too would really like to have a go at one of those: I have not done a diorama before but you have triggered a lot of ideas.

[Old Man]

Splendid work, Sir!

Really first-rate stuff!

[Zabu]

Ok...here it goes!

I took the plans from a normal Google search. The drawings are not mine as you may see from the picture itself.
I don't have any copyrights... the picture it's just there in the web... free, no crazy sites no nothing, so i took it! I guess that i'm not doing nothing wrong here.

I don't own any copyright too, so copy them right and have fun!

If you try to google Bessonneau Hanger - pictures, you'll come up with this:

Zoom it and save it.



http://i869.photobucket.com/albums/ab256/TheZabu/bessonneau02.jpg        (this second link it's just to have sure that the size of the pictures match, IF NOT take the this second link image)

I'm a braille modeler so this measures are for 1/72 scale... to other scales... well just math to match.

The materials that i used are simple:

3mm balsa plywood (for every main structure and trusses)
1.5 mm balsa plywood (for structural support)
Cianoacrylic glue or any glue for wood
Tracing paper
Paper glue (the white one that you can mix with water)
Ruller
X-ato knife

This type of hanger was 20 x 24 meters.
So let's scale the drawing/picture that you saved. Again, this is for 1/72 scale!

Open the picture in paint (from Windows) and scale it to 365%. The print will be quite fair not losing to much quality.
From here you should have something like 28 x 33.5 cm of 1/72 hanger!

The trusses from the drawings are solid, so i went  after this look:





So i traced them first in a paper (you just need one then take copys) and then with some glue i stick them to a 3mm balsa plywood. From here it's all x-ato knife action.

Watch the drawings... plan it your own way... and do it.

When i started to do it i was amazed how good and smooth it went.
I added a little 1.5v lightbolt inside... but i didn't take any "night" picture yet!


Cheers

[lone modeller]

Zabu,
On behalf of many others and not least myself, very many thanks. I will definitely follow this one up and try out your method as it looks relatively simple but very effective.

It is truly great how others are prepared to share information and ideas - such a difference the internet makes when compared to my earlier modelling existence when even knowing another modeller to share ideas with was a rarity. Shortly I hope to be able to post some pictures of another pusher conversion.