Focke-Wulf Fw 389E Sturmtaucher - Finished pics pg 8.

[PR19_Kit]

Every little helps. 

[zenrat]

Mock up.
Parts from Fw 200, Fw 189, Evergreen tube, and Sensodyne Electric Toothbrush...

[Tophe]

Lovely asymmetric layout,
Go on!

[PR19_Kit]

I have visions of the tail assembly waggling back and forth because Fred forgot to remove the motor and battery from the toothbrush! 

[Tophe]

I have visions of the tail assembly waggling back and forth because Fred forgot to remove the motor and battery from the toothbrush! 

This would be Variable Geometry in a very innovative way, congratulations to the inventor!

[zenrat]

Designated Fw 389E by Tophe and named Sturmtaucher (Shearwater).

[NARSES2]

I have visions of the tail assembly waggling back and forth because Fred forgot to remove the motor and battery from the toothbrush! 

I have visions of Fred going "but darling I thought you said you'd finished with that toothbrush ?" 

[Martin H]

I should probably pay homage to Kit by making the final wingspan just slightly more than a standard Fw200.

Dont stroke his ego to much

We will never hear the end of it 

[PR19_Kit]

I should probably pay homage to Kit by making the final wingspan just slightly more than a standard Fw200.

Dont stroke his ego to much

We will never hear the end of it 

It's already a given, you weren't going to hear the end of it anyway. 

[zenrat]

TBH i've been saving the electric toothbrush heads for years as the shape has always struck me as potentially being usefull.

[Weaver]

Nice one!

Funnily enough, I've been staring thoughtfully at those toothbrush heads too, although I was thinking of an extendible tailboom with an ELINT radome on the end. Not doing it now though.

[NARSES2]

TBH i've been saving the electric toothbrush heads for years as the shape has always struck me as potentially being usefull.

And finally it was  I'm terrible at seeing the future usefulness of household objects, or at least when I do save them they never come in useful until I've just thrown them out 

[zenrat]

They are basically a tapered cylindrical housing with a 90 degree drive on the end.
I can see them mounting propellors (similar to an SR.N-4) or wheels (like the Joe 90 car).
in this case I needed something tapered for the end of the tail boom.  I have removed the brush headband may put a clear dome in it's place for a really tiny observer (nazi genetic engineering breeding a race of superdwarfs?).
I have boxes of stuff which "might come in usefull" including passport glue tape refills (similar to white out tape thingos - contain gear wheels), pen bodies (tapered tubes), and old #11 blades (I will one day build a Cars that ate Paris VW homage).

Nothing done today due to work and spousal construction requirements (it's not raining, are you going to finish building that Gazebo/Pergola?).

[Tophe]

Nothing done today due to work and spousal construction requirements (it's not raining, are you going to finish building that Gazebo/Pergola?).

I hope there will be rain the rest of the week...

[NARSES2]

(it's not raining, are you going to finish building that Gazebo/Pergola?).

There's only one answer to that if you want to remain fed among other things