1/72 Bleriot XI "Penguin" trainer

[IFF1418]

Hi LM,

I really admire your work up to now. Great respect for all the scratch builders. I have onr question. A "thou" is excactely how many 10ths of a mm or inch? Thank you.

Kind regards
Patrick

[lone modeller]

IFF1418:
One "thou" is one thousandth of an inch, which means that if you look at one tenth of an inch on an old Imperial scale rule, 100 thou would make up the one tenth of the inch.
It is a very small unit of measure but I do not have a conversion chart to hand for metric scales.

[lone modeller]

Thanks to all of you for the supportive comments. This one is a bit slower than I anticipated but I hope to keep things moving over the next few days and post more soon.

[IFF1418]

IFF1418:
One "thou" is one thousandth of an inch, which means that if you look at one tenth of an inch on an old Imperial scale rule, 100 thou would make up the one tenth of the inch.
It is a very small unit of measure but I do not have a conversion chart to hand for metric scales.

Many thanks LM. Very small indeed.
Patrick

[uncletony]

It is a very small unit of measure but I do not have a conversion chart to hand for metric scales.

    1" = 25.4mm
   .1" = 2.54mm
  .01" (ten thou) = .254mm
.001" (1 thou) = .0254mm

[IFF1418]

It is a very small unit of measure but I do not have a conversion chart to hand for metric scales.

    1" = 25.4mm
   .1" = 2.54mm
  .01" (ten thou) = .254mm
.001" (1 thou) = .0254mm

Thank you Bo, the help desk did it again!

Kind regards
Patrick

[Mark]

Wonderful build . . . and in 1/72, too . . . what skill!

Mark G.

[lone modeller]

Evening All,

  I have managed to make some progress in the past few days. I finished mounting the sides and bottom of the fuselage. The fuselage top was moulded from 30 thou card and some very small gaps filled and rubbed down. I completed the frame at the front end of the fuselage with Evergreen strip and stretched sprue. The landing skid was cut from 30 thou card and attached to a piece of rod which in turn was glued to the fuselage frame.





   The wings and tail surfaces were cut from 20 thou plastic card carefully bent and sanded to aerofoil shape. The ribs were made from 10 x 20 thou Evergreen strip glued with liquid cement and rubbed down until they only just stand up.


After I had completed the fuselage rigging I was able to attach the horizontal tail surface to the rear of the fuselage. The struts were cut from stretched sprue.



  I am going to be away from home for two extended periods in the near future so there may be a bit of a delay before I can do much more. Consequently there will be a delay before I can post more.

Thanks for looking.

[coyotemagic]

Excellent progress on an interesting subject, LM.  A friend of mine built a 1/72 scale Penguin a few years ago and took 1st in class at our local hobby show.  Judges had no idea what it was.  They thought it was a racer because of the stubby wings.
Cheers,
Bud

[Des]

Looking really good LM, can't wait to see what she looks like with those little stumpy wings fitted.

Des.

[RAGIII]

Excellent Progress as all of the others have said! You guys have me pulling out books like the Harleyford Bomber book and looking at Bleriot versions used for observation and bombing. Maybe someday.
RAGIII

[Nigel Jackson]

This is looking so good thus far LM. Keep up the great work.

Best wishes
Nigel

[rhallinger]

Beautiful work LM!  This is an interesting model and a super build in 1/72. 

Please pardon my veering off topic a bit, but you mentioned at the start that you have completed five pusher conversions.  I recall the Sopwith Gunbus and the Fee, but not the others.  If it's not too much trouble, could you please post links to those other three pusher conversions?  I am fascinated by pushers, and would enjoy seeing your work on these.  Thanks!

Regards,

Bob

[IanB]

Coming along very well indeed LM, She looks like a Blériot now!

Ian

[lcarroll]

Very neat subject, LM, and coming along nicely. looking forward to seeing more when you return.
Cheers,
Lance