Allan's piccies: new Triebflugal

[Allan]

Here they are fellows: piccies taken at our last hobby club meeting of my Huma Triebflugal to be turned into a two seater with six twirly thingies and a 109 prop on the nose. Markings yet to be decided, but maybe triangles on the nose, a number on the fuselage and North Korean markings.

Camo? Maybe silver overall with patches of grey and green on the upper fuselage.

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Nev, can you see the spiral on the nose of the third shot?-that's what I meant about Tamiya masking tape improving my modelling out of sight-before I would have used ordinary masking tape and suffered the paint bleed, but no more.

I'm working on another Triebflugal and plan to turn it into a WW1 biplane using Siemans Shuckert (?) wings and rotary engine.

Well? Whaddaya all think?

Allan in Canberra

[Allan]

Sorry, Ithink it was Chris I was talking to about masking tape.

Allan in Canberra

[John Howling Mouse]

I've heard of it before.
Don't really know what it is.
But I like it---I LIKE it!  Keep the progress pics coming, please.

[noxioux]

My, she's tiny!  Doesn't that give your brain cramps working that small?

Looks good, though.  I wonder what it would look like if you could adapt some colorful JV-44 markings on it?

[cthulhu77]

Verrrrryyyy interesting !!!!
   Looking forward to more...
                greg

[Gary]

Very Cool and tiny!  

[matrixone]

Very cool idea! I really like it, can't wait to see the finished model.

Matrixone  

[Sisko]

I built the Huma triebflugal many years ago and my advice to you is to use brass tubing to hold the wings on. I just used the stubs in the kit wings and there is just not enough support to hold them up.

Looks good keep the pics coming

[nev]

This is a really interesting little model you got going here Allan

[Allan]

Thanks fellows.

More shots as soon as I can.

We have our hobby club's annual comp this weekend at the RSL (Returned Servicemen's League) Club here in Canberra on Sat and Sun. I'll try to post some pictures after the event.

Really looking forward to the traders and the sales of second-hand kits. Lots of decal and paint traders as well. And of course tucking into a steak at the bistro downstairs at lunchtime.

I'm toying with the idea of buying two Revell Heinkel Uhus and making one into a four engine job, but I might have to lengthen the fuselage. The other one I can make into a twin engine jet.

Allan in Canberra

[elmayerle]

If I'm not mistaken, aren't the wings inboard of the engines of a constant chord and profile?  That would simplify doing a conventional four-engined variant, but how about one with two push=pull engine nacelles?

[Allan]

Hi Wooksta and Elmayerle,

Thanks for the comments.

I think that what with a little, but fun, work needed to make the UHU a four-engine job, I'd most likely make it a recon plane with extra underwing fuel tanks to cut down on doing any armament work. I think you're right that the wing chord inboard of the inner nacelles is pretty uniform, so grafting it on might not be too hard. It's a project that I've often thought about and think that it would look real cool.

And then I'd go for only inner nacelle wheels and try to replace the kit wheels, which are really bad as you said, with something from the spares box. On the other hand, the resulting plane will be so distinctive that not many people would bother themselves inspecting the undecarriage.

I'd probably do all of this work before detailing the cockpit. I'd cement the fuselage halves together and much later knock up some kind of acceptable cockpit and slip it into the nose of the plane.

Push/pull sounds like a terrific idea as I've got quite a few props just lying around needing a home. That way I won't have to think up how to make the jet engines.

Have you seen the technique on the net when a bloke covered his UHU with dozens of small balls of Bluetac and then sprayed the thing to reproduce a mottled effect? I've noticed that we have some sheets of old puff pastry in the freezer that have long passed their use-by date and so might thaw them out and use them when my UHU reaches the painting stage.

And what do you think of that?

Allan in Canberra

[elmayerle]

Allan,

"Appropriate" the jet engines from, say, a couple cheap He162 kits.  There supposedly was a He219 with one or two jets slung underneath the fuselage for testing, at least.

For a push-pull engine nacelle, cooling the aft engine would be the real challenge, but I can think of two or three ways of doing a clean installation.

[Allan]

I see you there Chris.

Allan in Canberra

[Allan]

You're writing something aren't you Chris?

Allan in Canberra