Morane-Saulnier Type "N", Special Hobby 1/32

[Umlaufmotor]

I just don't know what to say anymore.

You scratch microscopic parts from left over sprues. I took me 7 tries to get the parts for my tailplane right and I used a truck load of Evergreen in the process.

I think you could build three aircraft from what's in my scrap box now.

Willem

Thank you very much, Willem for your kind comment.
I know what you describe.
There were parts - not on the Morane, but on the WNW LVG C-VI - , that I would have liked to throw against the wall, because my hands did not bring together what my brain wanted 

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Bertl

[Umlaufmotor]

@WD, @PrzemoL, @kensar and @Rick

Thank you very much, I'm glad you like this build report.

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Bertl

[Umlaufmotor]

One little thing, the glue seam in front of the wooden bottom board.
I was not sure if this will actually be covered by the scratch work on the carburetor.
I used simple 0.20mm thin plastic sheet to cover the seam.









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Bertl

[Umlaufmotor]

The front firewall, with the Fuel tank on top, is now attached to the model and glued.
From this moment on I only had the possibility to work with thin tweezers when I wanted to work on the carburetor or underneath the tank.
Very tricky 
In these pictures you can see the further course of the fuel line from the mixture regulator to the carburetor.









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Bertl

[Umlaufmotor]

To ensure that gasoline can also flow through the lines, we need a gasoline tap.
The fuel tap is located in a recess (fuel sump) below the tank.
To allow the pilot to open or close it as needed, a long operating rod was attached to the right side of the cockpit.
You can see it here in the original picture.



On the model, this operating rod was made from casting branches hot-drawn over a flame.

The end of the operating rod is also attached to the model - as in the original - under the tank in the gasoline sump.
The fuel line runs below the fuel cock, past the compass, to the mixture control.
This can be seen in the last picture.
The fuel line is not yet attached to the tank.







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Bertl

[Umlaufmotor]

Here is the built of the operating rod and the bracket.
A fairly simple component.
Waste plasic of course 











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Bertl

[Umlaufmotor]

The fuel tap is installed in the cockpit, now.
Slowly you can see the tightness in front of the pilots.
There is not much space.









...... still some color on it and .... done.



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Bertl

[Umlaufmotor]

The linkage for carburetor regulation also had to be scratch-built.
A tiny bracket was built from scrap plastic.
Fortunately, I found a suitable bell crank in the parts box.
The carburetor adjustment runs from the long lever on the throttle quadrant via a linkage to the diverter. From there a long rod leads directly to the actuating lever on the carburetor.
The position of the lever and the position of the linkage was placed on the model so that it could work from the point of view.

Here was not the problem to make the small parts, that was "child's play".
The real challenge was to fit all the levers, brackets, linkages into the cockpit.
It only worked with very sharp tweezers.
I had to work with 2K glue (UHU Plus 2 minutes).
I needed a glue that did not drip, did not flow away and remained workable long enough.

All parts were installed unpainted, so that means work with a very fine brush, do not wiggle shake or anything else.
Hold your breath works quite well to stay calm 







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Bertl


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[Umlaufmotor]

Good, the space under the fuel tank is now well filled 
Let's turn to the space above.
The MG was not fed with ammunition drum or ammunition belt in the French version.
On the Hotchkiss, ammo rods were used (sorry - I can't find a better word for it right now).
These ammo rods were stored in front of the pilot, directly on top of the oil tank in a wooden box.
This wooden box is now being built.
In principle a very simple thing, but the plastic for the box had to be very very thin.
The box had to fit between the fuel tank and the oil filler neck and it had to be possible to install an ammunition rod in the box.
The upper engine and tank cover had to be milled extremely thin on the inside for this.











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Bertl

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[Umlaufmotor]

The box is now filled with a strip of ammunition.
I used the kit parts here, also the etched part is included in the kit.
The cartridges are painted with Mr. Metalcolor "Brass", the "bullets" with "Copper".
After drying, the ammunition was polished.
The etched part was annealed over a candle flame and remains unpainted.









That's all for today.
Hope you like the progress of construction.
See you again soon.

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Bertl

[macsporran]

Just gets better and better!
Sandy

[WD]

Bertl, this just gets more amazing with every post.
I believe the correct term for that ammunition storage is "clip".

WD

[KiwiZac]

Bertl, this just gets more amazing with every post.

"Speechless" seems inadequate to describe my reaction to these last posts. Simply exquisite work!!

[Umlaufmotor]

Thank you very much, @Sandy, @WD and @Zac.

@WD
thanks for the right word - at least it sounds much better 

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Bertl

[Umlaufmotor]

A small incident by the way:
With this model I was confronted with problems which I had not had before.
On the left half of the fuselage, the top of the plastic began to peel off during construction.
I don't know why, it only occurred on the front part of the fuselage.
No solvents or anything like that were associated with the plastic.
In the end, my only options were to throw the model in the trash or do a cosmetic surgery.
I decided on the latter 

Partially there are more "air pockets" under the surface, these are the lighter milky spots on the surface.
However, I have not opened these - I hope that no further damage to the surface happens here.

Have any of you ever had such problems?













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Bertl


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