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Title: Dancing wings hobby fokker E
Post by: kpnuts on November 16, 2019, 05:09:35 AM
Hi all heres my next foray into balsa model aircraft, the instructions are in another league to hobby kings (mind you its dwarfed by hobby kings Fokker)
(https://i.ibb.co/fMwjNRR/IMG-20191115-183.jpg)
(https://i.ibb.co/DLRYzf4/IMG-20191115-54850.jpg)
(https://i.ibb.co/WyVHtw9/IMG-20191115-5377.jpg)
(https://i.ibb.co/PmhJJM2/IMG-20191115-297.jpg)
(https://i.ibb.co/Rh3Tvs9/IMG-20191115-49589.jpg)
(https://i.ibb.co/vjpFZG3/IMG-20191115-59840.jpg)
(https://i.ibb.co/QdPZ6r8/IMG-20191115-58170.jpg)
Title: Re: Dancing wings hobby fokker E
Post by: Frank3k on November 16, 2019, 05:46:01 AM
Wow - how did you get such a nice curve on the cowl? Did you have to steam the balsa?
Title: Re: Dancing wings hobby fokker E
Post by: kpnuts on November 16, 2019, 06:06:53 AM
Just soaked it for ten mins
Title: Re: Dancing wings hobby fokker E
Post by: apophenia on November 16, 2019, 12:52:59 PM
Quote from: kpnuts on November 16, 2019, 06:06:53 AM
Just soaked it for ten mins

Nice work! I'm looking forward to this   :D

It seems that its 410mm span makes this a 1/23rd scale Fokker-E. I've never heard of anything in that scale before but, hey,  close enough to sit beside a 1/24th Merit Dr.1 or the old Revell 1/28th kit  :smiley:
Title: Re: Dancing wings hobby fokker E
Post by: kpnuts on November 20, 2019, 04:31:25 AM
Bit more done to this.

(https://i.ibb.co/RTnxhDw/IMG-20191119-45654.jpg)
(https://i.ibb.co/vznJNff/IMG-20191119-46853.jpg)
(https://i.ibb.co/sK9yWJs/IMG-20191119-46151.jpg)
Title: Re: Dancing wings hobby fokker E
Post by: Old Wombat on November 20, 2019, 08:11:57 AM
The pilot appears to be slightly under-fed. ::) ;)
Title: Re: Dancing wings hobby fokker E
Post by: Camthalion on November 20, 2019, 07:28:31 PM
looking good
Title: Re: Dancing wings hobby fokker E
Post by: kpnuts on November 27, 2019, 04:49:01 AM
More done to this one, it's a nice little kit and goes together well.

(https://i.ibb.co/vdHGCtr/IMG-20191126-38980.jpg)
(https://i.ibb.co/3SL4yLR/IMG-20191126-38235.jpg)
(https://i.ibb.co/PNtqdGq/IMG-20191126-3774.jpg)
(https://i.ibb.co/3kyDkwC/IMG-20191126-37626.jpg)
Title: Re: Dancing wings hobby fokker E
Post by: Brian da Basher on November 27, 2019, 05:40:05 AM
Nice progress! Looks like you're getting closer to the finish line.

Brian da Basher
Title: Re: Dancing wings hobby fokker E
Post by: Old Wombat on November 27, 2019, 08:52:49 AM
 :smiley:
Title: Re: Dancing wings hobby fokker E
Post by: kpnuts on January 02, 2020, 03:57:02 AM
Nearly finished just need to order a prop.
(https://i.ibb.co/PzhNQDR/IMG-20200101-33413.jpg)
(https://i.ibb.co/6FrspTq/IMG-20200101-3439.jpg)
(https://i.ibb.co/m4M3Q8B/IMG-20200101-31984.jpg)
(https://i.ibb.co/5TfxMH5/IMG-20200101-32674.jpg)
(https://i.ibb.co/8MpZ4QJ/IMG-20200101-35714.jpg)
(https://i.ibb.co/Hx1Wmc0/IMG-20200101-34528.jpg)
(https://i.ibb.co/7VdfwrB/IMG-20200101-3556.jpg)
Title: Re: Dancing wings hobby fokker E
Post by: Brian da Basher on January 02, 2020, 06:43:55 AM
The rigging looks great!

I especially like it posed on the ship like that. Sort of like a W.W. I German version of the early Sea Hurricanes.

Brian da Basher