Allan's biplane- you may remember it

[Allan]

Hi all,

The interplane struts were knocked up from some lead from a propelling pencil- I sometimes use it for cannon barrels too.

The spiffy decals were a present from a bloke in my hobby club here in Canberra.

My What If story is that this is a Japanese Imperial Army plane from around 1918 and was flown by Colonel Korewa Oishiizou (that means "Boy! Is this delicious!" in Japanese), who was the All-Japanese Imperial  Navy domino champion.

I'll let you blokes have a good squiz at the model for a week or so and then Hyperscale it to see what sort of reaction I get.

Here's what I used to make the model
Fuselage: Huma Triebflugel
Wings/prop/nose: Siemans Schuckert
Wheels: FW 190
Head rest: FW 190 canopy







Hope you like it fellows.

Allan in Canberra

[K5054NZ]

He he what a gem! They'll love it over there!
The pint is a good touch!

[The Rat]

FUNKY!    

[lancer]

Brilliant!!

[Brian da Basher]

Boy it's delicious Allan! I love the spots on the wings and the swept-back tail and the landing gear! Excellent whiffer...and it'll drive the JMNs on Hyperscale nuts!

Brian da Basher

[cthulhu77]

Ooooohhhh boy...they are going to lynch you !!!   Fantastic build, love it !!!

               

[Allan]

Thanks fellows.

Just love the generous praise on this site.

I noticed that in the shots, one of the wings looks a little buckled. I think it

happened when I left the model in a box on the car back seat all day at work here

in Canberra the other day, where the weather has really been lovely and warm of

late and the mangos are dropping in price so that my wife and I like to eat at

least two of an evening after we water the back lawn and our tomato seedlings

near the pergola where we may fire up the barbie this weekend and grill some

chicken Thai style that should go quite nicely with a cool, crisp Frascati..

Allan in Canberra

[John Howling Mouse]

The interplane struts were knocked up from some lead from a propelling pencil- I sometimes use it for cannon barrels too.

Looks good but what do you mean by this?

Do you mean the metal sheath that holds the pencil lead?

I can't picture the graphite lead itself being strong enough to be useful.

What is a "propelling" pencil?  Is that a "mechanical pencil"

[Allan]

Hi Barry,

Pretty good progress your're showing with your models of late, Baz.

Yes, a mechanical pencil is a propelling pencil, the kind you click at one end and the lead slowly appears at the other in a thin metal sleeve.

I don't use the sleeve, but I suppose it might be useful for somehing.

The lead I often use for barrels and I find that it's more useful to me that stretched sprue because of its uniform cross section. The only drawback is that you have to position it  correctly before the superglue dries beause if the glue gets hard the lead can snap when you try to wiggle it into postion. The interplane struts are pencil lead and they went on pretty neatly and quickly with some dabs of superglue at each end.

Allan in Canberra

Finished my Ta 152 lat night and will post some shots on Thursday.
It's Monday arvo now.

[John Howling Mouse]

But doesn't the graphit lead break way too easily???

Me:  :dum:  

[Allan]

Barry,

Yes, the thin stuff does, but I try to avoid using it as much as possible.

Go for the thicker stuff and you'll find that it's quite useful material for modelling.

Allan in Canberra