Francesco Baracca's Ni17/2614 Academy 1/32

[radio]

Nice work, wait for the next.
Martin

[ondra]

Hi Antonio,

great progress, congrats!

One remark - the engine on the photo you have posted is an 80 HP Le-Rhóne 9C and the photo shows the front side of the engine - on the 9C the copper intake manifolds as well as the push-pull rods were attached to the crankcase in front of the cylinders.

On a 110 hp 9J the intake manifolds and the rods are behind the cylinders - as correctly depicted on the engine in your kit.

Attached a photo of a 9J front side.

Cheers

Ondra

[andonio64]

You're right Ondra, I have the pics of both the sides of the engine you attached.

Thanks for the correction!

Thanks to Rick and Radio for the appreciation.

AnDonio

PS
@Ondra: I haven't yet finished to work on the vector Horse...

[NinetythirdLiberator]

Great Start, Andonio...this will be a labor of love and we get to watch.  Keep going!

Cheers,

Dan

[andonio64]

Hallo Dan!
Happy to read you back!
Thanks for your appreciation, yes it's gonna be a labor of Love as you said!
 

[coyotemagic]

You're off to an excellent start, Antonio!  I have a feeling this may turn out to be your best yet.
Cheers,
Bud

[andonio64]

Thanks Bud!
I hope you'll be right!

 

[lcarroll]

     Coming along very nicely, Antonio, and I can now see some merit in that Master Caster Set. This Log will be much referenced when I get to my 17, hopefully in the next several Builds.
Cheers,
Lance

[Ernie]

You are doing a marvelous job, Antonio!  The Academy
kit isn't all that bad, other than the horrible decals, and
with your skills and improvements, I know your model
will be a real showpiece.   Great start, my friend!

Cheers,
Ernie

[Des]

You are off to a great start Antonio, the alterations you are making are all going towards making this an excellent model, I look forward to watching you progress with this kit.

The tubes on each side of the forward fuselage are the engine intake tubes, rotary engines did not have an exhaust pipe as such, the exhaust valve expelled the waste directly into the air.

Des.

[andonio64]

Thanks Ernie, Lance and Des for your appreciation!
Des, thanks for your correction to my error about exhaust, air intake.
Now I understand why in the pictures the tubes appear slightly directed forwards and not backwards as normally an exhaust pipe should...

I hope to post news soon, this weekend I had not a lot of time to model.

Ciao

Antonio

[Nigel Jackson]

A lovely start, Antonio. I can't wait to see how you develop things from here.

Best wishes
Nigel

[andonio64]

Hallo,
I decided to use the cowling from the Master Caster Set, but trying to dry assemble it I noticed it is much smaller (in diameter) than the front panel (see areas pointed with the red arrows)

This is too much for me, so I stepped back to the kit's cowling.
I glued on the basis of the cowling a 0,25 mm thick plasticard stripe to recreate the tiny rimming that can be seen (for example) here:

this is the result:






As I liked the detail of the Master Caster Set shown in this picture

I tried to remove it to glue on the Academy's piece.

The plastic is too thick so I drilled away most of its thickness, here is the result. thin enough but still I'm not sure I will use them, they have a different curve...

But, handling the provisionally joined fuselage halves I broke the tail skid!

So I decided to cut everything off ...


And rebuild it from scratch:



OK that's all for this weekend.

:-)

Ciao

Antonio

[BigBlue]

The cowl and tail skid both look terrific.  Nice work on both.

Molto bene!

Chris

[Rob Hart]

Nice save on the tail skid. Your replacement looks a lot better than the original.