Lloyd C.V 1/32 Scratch Build Project

[bobs_buckles]

Looking great, Bob!
Keep it coming!!!   

Von Buckle

[pepperman42]

Wish I could get that much done when Im too busy to model. Amazing work!!!!!

Steve

[lcarroll]

Magnificent Bob, keep at her but easy on the gas pedal. I echo the earlier comment, looks very like WNW's best!
Cheers,
Lance

[rhallinger]

Thanks guys!  Your encouragement really helps.  I hope that the top wing will go on okay, what with the odd A-H strut design of inverted V cabanes and main wing struts angled inward about 40 degrees!   I'm counting on the jig to get me through.  

The water tank is fabricated and awaiting brass paint.  I'm still trying to figure out precisely how I will sling it below the cabanes under the top wing center joint.  Should be exciting!  Still have to fabricate the exhaust pipes, the observer's cage and a few detail odds and ends, but I'm starting to run out of things to make!  A good sign, I guess.  Now it's time to put it all together and hope everything fits right!     We're getting close. 

Regards,

Bob

[miamiangler]

looking great ,like what you have done so far .

                                                                  Willi

[rhallinger]

Here's a little more progress this week.  I have mounted the cabane struts in preparation for mounting the top wing.  However, before doing that I will need to complete the radiator piping above the engine, the mounting bracket for the radiator, and the exhaust pipes.  Here are the affixed cabane struts:







Further progress will be slowed by work obligations for the next week or so.  See you at the end of June!

Regards,

Bob

[uncletony]

Oooooooooh that looks really nice

[pepperman42]

Lovely engineering on this - as usual!!

Steve

[Chris Johnson]

You really do exceptional work Bob.

Cheers,

Chris

[GAJouette]

  Bob,
As always exceptionally beautiful works my old friend.
Highest Regards,
Gregory Jouette

[rhallinger]

Okay, I've come up for air, so here's a little more progress.  The exhaust pipes have been crafted from Plastruct Butyrate tubing.  I chose Butyrate because it is softer than styrene and easier to bend without deforming or cracking (I also happened to have the right size in my scrap plastic box)  .  I cut the tube to appropriate length and bent it over a paintbrush handle to match the drawings, then inserted a short length of brass rod of appropriate thickness in the attached end to serve as an attachment peg to the engine cylinders.  Here is how they look painted and tacked in place with white glue:



I have seen photos of both straight and bent pipes on Series 82 aircraft, and long and short pipes.  I suspect that field modification was not uncommon.  I like they way these look, so I'm sticking with them. 

Next up: the radiator piping.  We're getting close now to the assembly jig and top wing attachment!

Cheers,

Bob

[Des]

Lovely work on the pipes Bob, they certainly look the part, looking forward to seeing the top wing mounted.

Des.

[Zabu]

Your work it's amazing.

The Loyd it's a beauty!

Cheers.

[Gisbod]

These scratch builds are incredible - I wouldn't know where to start..

Guy

[rhallinger]

Thanks everyone for your kind words.  They are appreciated, and the encouragement does really help with motivation.  I do feel the need to provide some encouragement back to all of you out there who are so supportive, by hastening to remind you that I am just an average modeler who is taking some chances and trying new techniques and working right through my fears to try and complete my first scratch buillt WWI aircraft.  Any modeler on this forum can do this, if they are willing to take the time and to persevere. 

Well, the front end is beginning to look a bit busy, just as it should:



The radiator pipes and water tank are installed, but I just set the radiator in place for show.  It will require brass wire supports emanating from the forward cabane struts, and will not be permanently affixed until the top wing is in place.

A closer view:



The radiator pipes are made from another Plastruct product, butyrate plastic tubing with wire inside, which makes it very easy to bend into nice curves.  You can also trim back the plastic and leave a wire projection as a locating pin, which I did at both ends.  This was a leftover product from my model railroading days.  The insulation wraps are Tamiya tape slices painted weathered black, with silver-painted monofilament as the clasps.  The water tank is a length of Evergreen styrene tube with the ends shaped appropriately with filler and sanded to shape.  Painted tape strips (secured with CA) represent the metal straps which secured the tank.  Both pipes and tank are brush painted with Mr. Metal Brass, which gives a darker used look, IMO.  I may experiment to see if a darker wash would work to make them appear more weathered and tarnished.

I need to make the windscreen and install the radiator brackets, then the engine area will be complete.  Since the outboard lower interplane rigging runs to the top of the cabane assembly, I may do that before I install the top wing.  We'll see.  I think I will add the empennage elements soon also.  Then she'll really be looking like the avian beauty that was the Lloyd!  

Regards,

Bob