Wight Quadruplane, Spin 1/48, Upd 15.5.21 The end

[Bughunter]

Thank you Hugh, Alexis and Rick!


Last wing

Again an update ...

In meantime I soldered control horns from 0.2mm nickel silver and 0.4mm brass tubes.



Mounted into the control surfaces.



Control wires added.



So I'm prepared to mount the last wing!
But after this picture I noticed, that the middle of the wing sits to hight, so I removed the four struts in the middle, unpinned and shortened them for another mm. Re-pinned, glued to fuselage again and next try ...



... successful!





To put it on the nose will no more possible with the finished model.





The alignment is acceptable.



This was again an update after a short time, but I'm sooo happy with the result - I need to share it This was a lot of work with all the wooden struts.
Let's see how the rigging will look like.

Let's have a beer now

Cheers,
Frank

[Rookie]

You did it Frank!

I have one word:

B-R-I-L-L-I-A-N-T!

Besides that, you are an absolute master in micro-soldering.

Willem

[RichieW]

Yes Frank!!!! Well worth sharing a happy success like this. I'm enjoying this build, you must be having real fun with it!

Richie

[RAGIII]

Simply Awesome Frank!
RAGIII

[Alexis]

Hey Frank , top wing is splendid looking in place now  Looking forward seeing her all rigged up now 


Alexis

[Manni]

This looks so great. Another showstopper is on it's way.
Manni

[lone modeller]

Sorry Frank but I have had another couple of days away and... you have made an excellent undercarriage from wood, tail skid, control horns and mounted the top wing.... I am breathless!

Just super - absolutely super. To get all four wings lined up so well and with the correct spacing - you deserve more than a beer!

Another mini-masterpiece in the making. I am seriously considering origami now!!

Stephen.

[Fvdm]

The wings are good aligned Frank. The control horns look great. Great work.

[Bughunter]

Thank you for celebrating this moment with me!

Just super - absolutely super. To get all four wings lined up so well and with the correct spacing - you deserve more than a beer!

A second beer can be unhealthy
The spacing is the result of sanding those 24 struts

The wings are good aligned Frank.

It was a good decision to add the 0.6mm pipes to the wings at the begin. The wooden struts are very robust, so I can press a wing a bit harder in one direction to bend the brass pins and to get a good alignment.
Sounds strange, but works! Don't try this with kit struts

20 rigging threads are in now, but this is not even the halve of needed ones

Cheers,
Frank

[lone modeller]

20 rigging wires = less than half the total? Try rigging a pusher then you will know that 20 wires are not enough to rig the wings on one side of the nacelle! I have counted that there will be 40+ just on the tail of the SIA which I am building!

Stephen.

[Bughunter]

Yes Stephen, I know that from my D.H.2 Stripdown, that one has also the rigging inside the wings! It has eaten a whole pack of One End turnbuckles in one wing.
https://forum.ww1aircraftmodels.com/index.php?topic=8552

I'm now around 36 Very hard to see against that PC10
And sometimes there are curses like in football "It was in!" when the thread is pulled out of the hole again by the electrostatic attraction through the tweezers ...

Cheers,
Frank

[kensar]

Nice work, Frank.  This is looking good.
Such a unique looking plane!

[Bughunter]

Thanks Ken! It is also very small.

Rotherham air pump

The last days I had other things to do.
But most of the rigging is now installed, and I tried to add another detail: Rotherham air pump

There were different types, this one.

Source: sopwithcamelblog.files.wordpress.com

At the beginning I made a pump from brass. The pressure tubing is 0.2mm copper, the axle nickel silver.



My Sopwith Triplane built last year is not equipped with such pump, so I had still the Eduard PE. A bit flat, but I could use the mount frame.



I modified it a bit and added the PE parts and a real wooden prop.



The blades are very thin and the whole thing is very small!



Now it is mounted on a strut.



From another angle, and without airflow.



And here with airflow:



Another nice detail added

Cheers,
Frank

[RichieW]

Wow, that is impressive micro engineering, it even spins! I think you've earned a beer reward Frank!

Richie

[DaveB]

Clever, clever work on your Quadruplane, Frank -

Love the little wind driven fuel pump - wow!

Regards

Dave