Zenrat's Flying Circus

[ericr]

And this is a giraffe skin seat cover.

(besides seaplanes, giraffes are another hobby of mine)

[Old Wombat]

There's something strangely appealing about the front end of the La-200.

I really should get hold of one & bash the front end onto something else.

[PR19_Kit]

And this is a giraffe skin seat cover.

OK, that's suitably awesome, but how did you actually DO it? 

[NARSES2]

Raiden's looking good and as for the giraffe seat cover 

There's something strangely appealing about the front end of the La-200.

I know what you mean. There's something almost cartoonish about it ?

[zenrat]

And this is a giraffe skin seat cover.

OK, that's suitably awesome, but how did you actually DO it? 

I found a image of giraffe skin on line, printed it onto paper towel (taped onto a piece of A4 printer paper), and then stuck it to the seat soaked in PVA glue.

Raiden's looking good and as for the giraffe seat cover 

There's something strangely appealing about the front end of the La-200.

I know what you mean. There's something almost cartoonish about it ?

It's tempting to paint the nose red and christen it Рудолпх.

[zenrat]

Engine for the '68 Dodge Dart LO23 is almost completed.
68 Hemi Dart WIP 27-11-2021 by Fred Maillardet, on Flickr

Raiden got it's engine.
Raiden WIP 27-11-2021 by Fred Maillardet, on Flickr

[PR19_Kit]

I found a image of giraffe skin on line, printed it onto paper towel (taped onto a piece of A4 printer paper), and then stuck it to the seat soaked in PVA glue.

Excellent! 

What a great idea, and carried out to perfection.

[TheChronicOne]

Yeah, the black and green DOES look good! To hell with that NMF!        Yo, I'm surprised paper towel, taped smooth and flat and secured, or otherwise, would fit through a printer! Makes me wonder what else might fit through one........   

[jcf]

It strikes me that the circular cross section fuselage would be perfect for a large radial engine like an ASh-73.  Or maybe two coupled together.

Or perhaps something Shevetsov ASh-82 based. The M-3 was a 21-cylinder three-row
development and the ASh-2 was a 28-cylinder engine, basically a double ASh-82.

The ASh-73 was a large engine with a 1,375mm (54") diameter vs. 1,260 mm (49.6 in)
for the ASh-82. A double ASh-73 would be ginormous, and end up longer, and heavier,
than the 24-cylinder liquid cooled multi-bank radial VD-4K.
https://oldmachinepress.com/2015/05/28/dobrynin-m-250-vd-3tk-and-vd-4k-aircraft-engines/

In any case whichever engine, an installation like that envisioned for the pre-war French SNCM
130/137 would look cool. The engine was basically three V-8 engines on a common crankcase:

https://oldmachinepress.com/2020/12/05/sncm-130-and-137-24-cylinder-aircraft-engines/

[jcf]

Yeah, the black and green DOES look good! To hell with that NMF!        Yo, I'm surprised paper towel, taped smooth and flat and secured, or otherwise, would fit through a printer! Makes me wonder what else might fit through one........   

Some printers have a thick paper/cardstock setting or automatically compensate for thicker paper.

[zenrat]

Printing onto suitably trimmed newspaper can produce interesting results.
As far as thickness goes commercially available magnetic "paper" is thicker than paper towel taped to paper.

If taping paper towel to printer paper use masking or draughting tape.  I used cellophane tape and the ink still hasn't dried...

I broke one of the Raiden's undercarriage legs today.  Completion is delayed while I repair it.
I also wired the Hemi's distributor.
49 Ford body is in the dehydrator for a week so I can polish the paint.

[TheChronicOne]

It's not really the thickness of it that concerns me, I've had printers run through stacks of paper a dozen thick or more on accident, but it's the lack of stiffness... all those other things are rigid whereas paper towel is "floppy" and might tear easier... I'm just a little surprised that it can fit through the printer without tearing loose or bunching up. Then again, I was imagining a larger piece of it that would be difficult to secure in the middle.

[zenrat]

Paper towel on it's own won't feed through the printer (I know this for the obvious reason) which is why I tape it to a4 printer paper.
I tape all four sides.

[DogfighterZen]

Very nice work on all fronts! The Raiden is looking great!

[zenrat]

Thanks DFZ.

Raiden is now done.  Pics tomorrow.
Also something else i've knocked up.