Evening All,
Thanks to all of you who have dropped by and left your very kind comments - they are very much appreciated.
Special thanks to Beto for the links to Flight Magazine: this link and the link to the Atlas are especially useful reference material. As it happens I already have the drawings for the Oertz because they are in the
German Seaplanes text mentioned in the first post.
Frank: this is not a quadruplane but I anticipate that it is going to offer some similar challenges!
Dave: I have Marklo to thank for finding this one!
I forgot to mention above that the hull is laminated basswood which is easy to shape and scrape and sands down to a very smooth finish. I have removed the flash from the hull - it has taken several hours with a file and glass paper but I am happy with the result so far. I started by removing large pieces from the front on one side and then shaped the remainder of that side as this made it easier for me to hold the piece in a wood vice:
Having achieved the above I shaped and scraped the other side to match:
Lines were drawn across the piece to enable me to draw reasonably accurately the shape of the hull on the side of the block, including the step at the rear:
The bow and rear of the hull upper surfaces could now be filed to shape:
Followed by the removal of the lower rear with a saw to create the step:
The last stage of the shaping was to slope the sides inwards towards the top of the hull:
And round the bow and underside surfaces and and smooth with medium and fine grade glass paper:
To try to ensure that the cross section of the hull was constant I used some paper templates which I had traced and drawn from plans in the German Seaplanes of WW1 volume:
The next stage will be to cut holes in the upper surfaces of the hull to represent the front cockpit and rear cockpit/engine bay. That will have to be done using a milling bit on a drill which I hope to show in the next update when it is all done.
Thanks for looking.
Stephen.
