[WWI] Added:Nie 11 Progress

[Crawford Neil]

I wonder if a better way to do the pulley wheels might be in p/e too, in
layers like some people have
done engine cylinders, that would mean you could make the track in the
middle really deep enough 
for the control wire to track properly.  Glueing neatly and strong
enough would be another challenge.
/Neil
 
 


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[mailto:wwi-bounces at wwi-models.org] On Behalf Of Tom Mason
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	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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		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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