[WWI] Added:Nie 11 Progress

[Crawford Neil]

No, but funny you should say that. I suggested to Diego a while back
that someone COULD make operable controls in 1:48 and that I might try
it some day. I'd have to improve my skills a whole lot though.
 
Jim

 I've done it on a Spitfire in 1/48, must be about thirty years ago now.
It still works, I made a little hook thing that
you can put in the cockpit and move the stick, the elevators wiggle
nicely. I had working flaps and sliding 
hood on it too, but had enough sense not to try and do the ailerons. The
difficulty is to not compromise 
scale accuracy, it would be easier today now we have photo-etched brass.
I used thread as control wires,
today I'd use wire, but even so I think you will find the aileron
operation more than tricky even in 1/48. 
Getting wire to follow those little guide wheels in the wings would be a
challenge in accuracy, it might
even be easier to do a Spad with those control thingies down by the
outer rear struts. How about a wing warper!
I enjoyed doing it then (as far as I got), but gave up doing it as a
hopeless effort, it might be different now though.
/Neil  
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