I'm starting to wind down here as I'm heading home on Thursday for my Dad's 90th, followed the week after by Telford! Models are packed and ready to go, so instead of starting major work I'm tidying up on some of the small stuff.
To that end I have reprinted the cylinders as separate items in an effort to get a little more detail and gaps between them. That seems to have worked, so just to get a better idea of how they look I squirted some paint at them today.
I think that will work nicely! I may yet print them again with a small peg on the bottom to help mounting alignment. We'll see.
I have also started to prepare for a future project - an Avro Rota!
I have the RS Models kit and the Amstrong-Siddeley Genet Major engine is not bad but it's extremely visible and I wanted to see if I could find better.
I could! A website by the name of Hip Pocket Aeronautics has downloadable 3d print files for it so I downloaded the files. They are full size so had to be scaled but they have printed up nicely! It is split into crankcase, front cover, cylinder, distributor, breather, inlet pipes, rocker covers, and pushrod covers. A lot of parts to print!
Here is the crankcase with the front cover, breather, and distributor fitted
and with paint
cylinder
That should look far better!
Those bits will now go in a little box and live with the kit until I get around to it!
Thanks for looking in,
Ian
