Merged: Old Shapeways-related announcements

[uncletony]

Looks fantastic Bo!

If you don’t mind sharing, what technique did you use to simulate the finish on your metal cowling?

1) Alclad II grey microfiller
2) Alclad II black gloss base coat, polished
3) Alclad II chrome
4) squiggles hand painted with Tamiya matte aluminum

[uncletony]

The Fokker D.III Kit is available again. Choose one Fuselage and 1 wing set. Accessory Sprues A, B3 B4 & B5 work with either.

product	sku	link	price (regular/FUD)	price (premium/FXD)
1:32 Fokker D.III Early Fuselage	PZFLLT7NK	http://shpws.me/LzMy	$35.49	$59.99
1:32 Fokker D.III Mid/Late Fuselage	HAPC9MY68	http://shpws.me/LXAY	$50.99	$87.99
1:32 Fokker D.III Early/Mid (M19F) Wings	CDCF269Q4	http://shpws.me/LzMJ	$62.49	$97.49
1:32 Fokker D.III Late (M19K) Wings	25W7B6SNR	http://shpws.me/LXB9	$65.99	$101.49
1:32 Fokker D.III Accessories A	7UBXWFZER	http://shpws.me/LzMs	$45.99	$68.49
1:32 Fokker D.III Accessories B3	5XAVYJYAZ	https://www.shapeways.com/product/5XAVYJYAZ	$27.99	$36.99
1:32 Fokker D.III Accessories B4 & B5	UPESLGAN9	https://www.shapeways.com/product/UPESLGAN9	$19.99	$26.99

[Jeff K]

great news!

which fuse/wings would you recommend for Udet's "phantom observer" bus?

[uncletony]

great news!

which fuse/wings would you recommend for Udet's "phantom observer" bus?

Udet's "Tin man" D.III 368/16 appears to have had a mid production fuselage characterized by the extra (false) longerons. It would have had the early warping wings.

He is also associated with a somewhat later one, s/n escapes me now but was in the 1000's. Apparently he ground looped it, there is a photo somewhere of it on its back iirc.

[Jeff K]

superb. thanks for the info. i'm deffo in for the tin man, once my bank account recovers from the Weta sale.

it will be my first stick 'n' tissue adventure since my dad and i built a Guillow's Camel for Mr. Brown. we decided to pass on the rigging. this will never happen again...

[uncletony]

superb. thanks for the info. i'm deffo in for the tin man, once my bank account recovers from the Weta sale.

it will be my first stick 'n' tissue adventure since my dad and i built a Guillow's Camel for Mr. Brown. we decided to pass on the rigging. this will never happen again...

Cool. Instructions are here:

http://flugzeugwerke1917.com/fokkerd3/

They are slightly outdated since refactoring Sprue B -- the fuel and oil tanks are split up differently to take advantage of print orientation to reduce artifacts. The fuel tank now is 5 pieces -- top & bottom, ends and cap. The oil tank is still four pieces, but split up differently.

[uncletony]

Attention Albatros, Fokker & Pfalz superdetailers & dioramists:

I've redesigned the Mercedes D.IIIa crankcase offering. Major change is correcting and resizing the bosses for the bolts that hold the halves together; the drawings I originally based these on were not accurate in this regard.

Also, importantly, the halves are now guaranteed be printed in "upside-down bathtub" orientation -- in other words, the critical detail will face up, and will print with a minimum of artifacts (aka the white fuzzy crap).






https://www.shapeways.com/product/STXNQESA7

[uncletony]

Nice. So will your old cylinders fit?

yes, that's all the same.

[RAGIII]

Outstanding Bo. Someday I will actually plan an Albatros with the hoods off. I will certainly use all of your Mercedes products when I do so!
RAGIII

[uncletony]

Watch this space for details

[Jamo]

Not sure if your research is complete yet Bo. I searched my collection of photos and there may be some details you haven't seen yet

[uncletony]

Jamo -- that's awesome and yes, very useful, very much still in the research/ pondering the best way to do this/ phase.

My inclination is to make the the replacement radiator go hand-in-hand with the HGW PE shutters. Bigger question is whether to completely replace the wing center section, or, is the required surgery going to be easy enough?

If anyone has a broken or abandoned LVG kit that they could spare the radiator section for some experimentation, that would be helpful...

[seiran01]

Bo - I'm looking forward to seeing the product, in whichever form you decide to design it!

My 2 cents,  I think it'd be a better approach to just do replacement radiator and not the full center top wing. Shapeways printing will likely still require the builder to put in work to smooth out the print lines even in the highest resolution printing (unless they've added an option recently I'm not aware of...). My thought is that in the end it'd be less work for the builder to simply cut out the kit rad and drop in yours. Any chance you'll consider doing the shutters as well? I fouled up my HGW rad set beyond recognition, think my hands are simply too clumsy to work with PE even under the best circumstances 

Cheers
Mike

[uncletony]

Input duly noted, thanks Mike

[Umlaufmotor]