Author Topic: Morane-Saulnier Type "N", Special Hobby 1/32 (Read 20703 times)

Brad Cancian · « **Reply #30 on:** May 03, 2022, 07:31:07 PM »

Wonderful work - I especially like the way you handled the rivets on the spinner. Great stuff!

Cheers,

BC

Umlaufmotor · « **Reply #31 on:** May 04, 2022, 02:50:28 AM »

Thank you very much for the flowers to all!

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Bertl

Umlaufmotor · « **Reply #32 on:** May 04, 2022, 03:03:16 AM »

It's not a big step from the propeller to the engine.
The rotary engine is cast in resin, not bad, but not in the quality that I could have used it without problems.
The engine is too large in diameter, many of the cylinders are twisted so that the valve timing linkage is off by several degrees of angle, and there are some flaws in the casting of the cooling fins.
In short, it needs a little work.

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Bertl

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Umlaufmotor · « **Reply #33 on:** May 04, 2022, 03:12:09 AM »

So that the motor can be turned without errors in the finished model, I glued a homemade part on the back.
The back plate was shaped so that the distributor disk for the ignition cables and the bearing are made of one part.
This back plate was then used as a guide to drill a centered hole with a suitable drill bit.
Through this hole runs later the shaft (made of brass) for the engine.

Umlaufmotor · « **Reply #34 on:** May 04, 2022, 03:19:01 AM »

So that the cylinders do not collide with the inside of the thinner milled engine cowling, they were all separated from the engine block.
The separation point was filed down a bit and all cylinders were glued in a neatly adjusted manner.
Of course, the missing spark plugs were also added.
I used the fine Taurus plugs here.
The pushrods were represented with a thin brass tube.

Umlaufmotor · « **Reply #35 on:** May 04, 2022, 03:24:14 AM »

The engine mount on the inside of the firewall was reinforced with a cross-shaped mount similar to the original.
This also served as a bearing for the motor shaft.
The bracket was milled from FR4 GRP.

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Bertl

Umlaufmotor · « **Reply #36 on:** May 04, 2022, 03:29:28 AM »

After the main work was done only some glue and some paint was needed and the engine was finished.
The ignition wires were represented with thin copper wires.
No big deal.
You can see almost nothing of the engine later.
The big spinner covers almost everything.

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Bertl

lone modeller · « **Reply #37 on:** May 04, 2022, 03:36:34 AM »

Good to see you back Berti - and in fine form too. As Beto has already commented, you are of course only building this out of the box....with 98% modification!

Stephen.

Umlaufmotor · « **Reply #38 on:** May 04, 2022, 04:06:03 AM »

Hi Stephen,

Thank you very much.

Well, @Beto is very close with his guess.

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Bertl

Umlaufmotor · « **Reply #39 on:** May 04, 2022, 04:08:18 AM »

Now to the fuselage of the little Morane.
Here, the cast-on stringers on the insides were all removed and made new from thin Evergreen material.

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Bertl

Umlaufmotor · « **Reply #40 on:** May 04, 2022, 04:16:38 AM »

The side panels have also been revised.
I have to mention about all this rebuilding work that I found almost no pictures of an original MS Type N cockpit.
A little bit in the Windsock Datafile, but many conversions are based on feeling, guesses, pictures of other Morane's like Parasol Type "P", "H" etc. and various conclusions like "it should have been something like this".

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Bertl

Umlaufmotor · « **Reply #41 on:** May 04, 2022, 04:19:33 AM »

The side panels of the cockpit were scraped a lot thinner with a scalpel blade.
Here in comparison the right side in the picture to the left.
Note the fuselage wall (edge)

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Bertl

Umlaufmotor · « **Reply #42 on:** May 04, 2022, 04:22:02 AM »

Of course, the thinner milling of the material was noticeable elsewhere.
The joints showed gaps in the plastic.
These were filled with waste plastic.

Umlaufmotor · « **Reply #43 on:** May 04, 2022, 04:29:33 AM »

Really a lot of time went into detailing and rebuilding the back wall.
Here I wanted to make the view into the rear part of the fuselage visible. of course only as far as it was the case with the original.
But this also meant that some rework and scratch-building was necessary at this point in the fuselage.
In general, it must be said that the large cockpit opening provides a lot of insight into the aircraft - but unfortunately very little can be seen there out of the box.
So, in fact, a lot had to be rebuilt and displayed "by hand". But that's model building - that's exactly why we love our hobby ..... or am I wrong?