[WWI] Added:Nie 11 Progress

[Tom Mason]

For operable ailerons how about the Avro 504? The control wires are on the outside of the wing. To me the hard part would be the pulley wheels and bracket that holds them. With photo-etch the brackets could be done and possibly do the wheel out plastic with a wire pin through its center.

T.O.M.
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  From: Crawford Neil 
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  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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