Fokker E.II 69/15 Kurt von Crailsheim

[pepperman42]

Excellent results on a great solution for a tricky problem!!

Steve

[dirk]

Hi friends,

just a small update on the IMG 08/15 Spandau.









Cheers, Dirk

[stefanbuss]

Dirk,

i am not sure, maybe it's just the photos, but it looks like the paint does not cover the inside of the lMG completely?

Stefan

[dirk]

Hi Stefan,

well, the makrofunction on digital cameras is non forgiving and in many cases, problematic areas are revealed were an eye gets to its limits. But in this case, I think the effects was caused by the light...

Thanks a lot for your feedback, Dirk


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Dirk,

i am not sure, maybe it's just the photos, but it looks like the paint does not cover the inside of the lMG completely?

Stefan

[RAGIII]

Looking terrific! Your MG is very well done! Getting even better with each update.
RAGIII

[dirk]

Hi friends,

underwing rigging is almost done except painting the turnbuckles, the wiring and so on. I have used 0.12 mm monofilament for structural rigging.





The monofilament was glued to the points neear the cockpit. 0.05 copper wire and albion tubes were used for the turnbuckles. the buckles were prepainted in their color-code while the rest of the turnbuckles will be painted after the rigging is done.







The monofilament was tentioned on the outer wing points by using a heavy soldering tweezer. The turnbuckles have been secured with superglue after the monofilament was fixed.







At least this was a very time consuming process and I hope that the later structural rigging on the upper side of the wing will correspond to the tension on the downside. I am very interested in your experiences with rigging Eindeckers, cause this is some premier for me...

With kind regards, Dirk

[stefanbuss]

Premier or no premier, the results are most impressive. Very well done.

Stefan

[Flugzeugwerke]

Superb as always.

[pepperman42]

Another fine example of model engineering!!!

Steve

[Ssasho0]

Excellent, you have my admiration!

[michael]

this is gonna look stunning 

michael

[RAGIII]

As all of the others have stated this is outstanding work! Your rigging is turning out fantastic!!
RAGIII

[Ernie]

What would an Eindecker  be without it's spider-web?  You are
doing a great job, Dirk!  Looking forward to the top-side photos.
Thanks for sharing with us.

Best Regards,
Ernie

[dirk]

Dear friends,

here are some pics of the rigging of the top side. The overall structural rigging was done by using 0.12 Fluorcarbon monofilament. I chose structural rigging instead of EZ-Line because of my suspicion that the wings will tend to bend downwards due to time and force of grafity.

Planing the steps of rigging was essential because after the top side rigging, the plane can't be laid on its back anymore. The rigging of the under side of the wings was done in back position with some tension on the monofilament.



First I added the control cables for the rudder and the elevators by fiddling a piece of bended copper wire through the whole and fixing the monofilament on the end of the wire with Cyanacrylat.



After the plane was turned on its carriage, the monofilament plunged down a little bit due to the weight of the wings.

For the rigging of the upper side, the tips of the wings were placed on revells acrylic pots. This caused to bend the wings towards the upper direction and let the bottom monofilament gets its tension back. The upper rigging was prefixed and clamps, weigthened with extra clothespins kept the monofilament tight.











All upper monofilaments were fixed with Cyanacrylat in one step of procedure. After letting the Fokker back on its carriage again, the tension was evenly spread throughout the under and upper side of the wing.

Happy to share this with you after this delicate step is done...

Cheers, Dirk

[Flugzeugwerke]

brilliant, thank you for sharing your procedure, I will be referring to it for certain!