The Focke Wulf Alternativer Antriebsflügel

[PR19_Kit]

Frank's donation of some wheels for the Triebflugal have got this build back on track. 

I also chopped the plastic legs for the small stabilising wheels right off, and have replaced them with some brass jewellery wire, which I can bend to trim the final angle of the aircraft. The wheels are drilled first and then glued in place with gel superglue as well, so hopefully they won't fall off as they might have done with normal styrene glue.

The only problem is the drilling as the wire is 1 mm dia. and the fins and wheel legs are about 1.75 mm dia! It needed VERY accurate drilling! 

[PR19_Kit]

How about this then? ALL five wheels on the ground at the same time! 



The beauty of using the jewellery wire is that it's reasonably flexible while not being too floppy and the vertical positions of the stabiliser wheels can be adjusted to suit. It worked a treat, and all I have to do now is glue on those pesky fairings that are meant to fit around the wheels.

[Old Wombat]

Bravo, Sir!                  

[frank2056]

 I'm glad the old parts are getting a new life!

The brass wire looks much, much better than the slightly elliptical plastic in the Huma gear.

I would be tempted to skip the clamshells on the outrigger gear - they were so annoying to glue on just right.

[Robomog]

Nice work getting that to sit right !

There's not a lot of wiggle Room on that type of undercarriage

  

Mog
>^-.-^<

[kerick]

Nice job on the outrigger wheels!
I hope that contraption doesn't start to wobble on engine startup! I'd be diving into a ditch if I saw that!

[Rick Lowe]

As everyone has said, a Worthy Effort and Result!   

[PR19_Kit]

It does look VERY unstable perched on the sideboard! 

Luckily it all comes apart so I can take it to shows, once it's painted and decalled anyway.

[zenrat]

 

[PR19_Kit]

The baby props that drive the BIG prop of the Alternativer Antriebsflügel kept on falling out of their sockets, and are so small that I was in danger of losing them, so I poked a VERY small amount of Blue Tak into the shaft tubes for the baby props and the problem's solved.   

I've got to the stage of painting the thing now, and while I LOVE Ratty's captured one I really don't want to copy someone else's idea, no matter how good it is, so I'm wondering about a colour scheme. Currently the nose/cockpit section is painted all over RLM 02, mainly because the RLM seemingly had EVERYthing painted that colour if they couldn't think of anything else, but ['m open to suggestions.

[buzzbomb]

  

[jcf]

The baby props that drive the BIG prop of the Alternativer Antriebsflügel kept on falling out of their sockets, and are so small that I was in danger of losing them, so I poked a VERY small amount of Blue Tak into the shaft tubes for the baby props and the problem's solved. 

I've got to the stage of painting the thing now, and while I LOVE Ratty's captured one I really don't want to copy someone else's idea, no matter how good it is, so I'm wondering about a colour scheme. Currently the nose/cockpit section is painted all over RLM 02, mainly because the RLM seemingly had EVERYthing painted that colour if they couldn't think of anything else, but ['m open to suggestions.

Greens and browns on the "topside"
of the rotors and engine pods, the nose and the fuselage "top" aft of the rotor and tops of the "top" tailfins. Greys etc. on the underside of the rotors and engine pods, the rest of the fuselage and "bottom" tailfins.

Or paint a spiral across the rotors.

[Old Wombat]

I've got to the stage of painting the thing now, and while I LOVE Ratty's captured one I really don't want to copy someone else's idea, no matter how good it is, so I'm wondering about a colour scheme. Currently the nose/cockpit section is painted all over RLM 02, mainly because the RLM seemingly had EVERYthing painted that colour if they couldn't think of anything else, but ['m open to suggestions.

Japanese? Hungarian? Swiss? 

[PR19_Kit]

Yes, defining which is the 'top' or the 'bottom' of this thing is a problem as it changes frequently.

I rather like the spiral idea, it was very 'in' among Luftwaffe fighter squadrons during WWII after all. But actually DOING it is a different ball of wax.

I'll think about that.................