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Re: WWII MOC: Focke Wulf
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Wed, 5 Sep 2001 14:37:17 GMT
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In lugnet.build.military, Lindsay Frederick Braun writes:
> In lugnet.build.military, Shaun Sullivan writes:
> > This looks fantastic! At first glance I was afraid that you had beat me to it
> > ... on my current list of projects (both underway and in the planning stages)
> > is an Me Bf 109. Though they look quite different, the visual of a German
> > monoplane was enough to strike fear into my heart :)
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> Hey, I'm in even more fear, because I have a Ta-152--the high-
> altitude mod of the FW-190 design spec--on my list. But it is,
> of course, a very tentative list; the He 162 and Ba 349 are ahead
> of it, which gives you an idea of how far there is yet to go.
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> That's a great rendering, Geordan--I especially like the work
> that went into modelling the canopy. LEGO can never be perfect,
> but the urge to slap a Naboo Fighter canopy on every aircraft
> is hard to resist!
Thanks Lindsay, It is hard to resist, but some planes (like this one) would
look goofy with it.
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> BTW: An excellent reference, which I swear by, for Luftwaffe
> aircraft photos and technical drawings:
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> William Green, _Warplanes of the Third Reich_ (Doubleday, NY,
> 1970). Research has revealed more in the intervening 30 years,
> but it's still the granddaddy. It was reprinted by Galahad Books
> in 1990 and there may be a few copies still kicking around in
> secondhand bookstores. If not, it's an almost guaranteed
> library denizen (unless it's checked out). The best part is
> all the freaky prototypes he's got photographs and drawings of.
> Forward-swept-wing six-engined Nazi jet bomber? It's there!
> 672 pages of techie goodness.
I'll have to see if my library has it, I think I've checked out prettymuch
all of the WWII aircraft resource books over the past month or so, but there
have to be a few that I've missed.
> > It does look great, though! I especially like the way you accomplished the
> > landing gear ... I've been mulling over ideas in the back of my mind for how to
> > best incorporate the folding wheels ... this is a nice idea that I hope to
> > steal ;)
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> Ditto. I've actually done wheels similarly, but rather using
> the 1x3 tile base--not the actual complete 1x5 hinge assembly.
> How strong is it functionally? Does the gear ever threaten to
> emerge from the housing without permission?
No it doesn't, And I only have three of the old smooth rubbber (plastic?
:-D), twoof which are on the p-51. I f it used those type of wheels it would
comemout very easily.
(Bad landing
> gear! Bad! Bad!) I think your solution gives easily the best-
> looking closed landing gear I've seen on a minifig plane.
Thanks
> > > Please let me know what you think, this is not the best I can do, I think
> > > this could have been improved if I had my whole selection of parts, oh well,
> > > the p-51 and the SM Spitfire are on their way.
> >
> > We're holding you to this, by the way.
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> I'm interested to see how the Spitfire will turn out! Do you
> have a specific plan for handling those complex curves?
Yep, I'm still pondering over the landing gear, would you rather buy a plane
that had them fold under without any recessed area, or the landing gear
actually fold into a reccessed section?
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> > Hmm, guess I'd better really get underway on that -109. The Stuka's a sitting
> > duck otherwise ...
>
> snip.
-Geordan->
> LFB
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| (...) Hey, I'm in even more fear, because I have a Ta-152--the high- altitude mod of the FW-190 design spec--on my list. But it is, of course, a very tentative list; the He 162 and Ba 349 are ahead of it, which gives you an idea of how far there is (...) (25 years ago, 5-Sep-01, to lugnet.build.military)
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