Vickers "Vimy" / Modelik / 1:33

[jobeaux]

Woo hoo!, coming along great. I too am interested in how you did the turnbuckles, they are perfect!

[B-Manic]

You are really making good progress. The rigging is fantastic.
You can see from Billy's first picture why it has the nose wheel.

[chapuzas100]

The turnbuckles are the I added the kit to facilitate the assembly process as the guy wires of the wings, I was inspired by this photo of a wing vickers



parts the brush with ms paint and it is these



first printed them on gray paper of 160 gr, I put double

I will try to explain the process of assembly, cylinder made of paper strips 2 * 7 mm



then gave way rolled in a 1 mm drill bit first and then the other of 0.5 mm





Now I put some pictures with the assembly sequence





give something white wood glue to paper to Pour the copper wire and cut the excess

So until I have a mounted section



When I mount the top of the wing do the same with the other end of copper wire









more white glue for wood and some gray paint



I hope the pictures will explain better than the online translator

Un saludo

[B-Manic]

The pictures are a perfect explanation - thanks.

[cardist]

Simple and effective, I like it. Thanks.
Bernie

[SJPONeill]

In this scale you have to do these details for the rigging as the turnbuckles and fittings are so noticeable on the real thing...I was struggling to come up with a workable system (could come up with the various component parts but it was the whole sum of the parts thing...) for my Ilya Muromets...this way takes away all that pain (as much as pain can be taken away from rigging biplanes) and produces a top result!!!

Great effort, chapuzas100!!!!

[Leif Ohlsson]

Oh, this is good! I notice with pleasure that you are working with white glue, not necessarily cyano-acrylate, even for copper wire. I am going to sit back and learn a lot here.

By the way, the nosewheel discussed was jettisoned, dropped, immediately after the start from New Foundland. It was only for take-off. This is one aspect that differs from the ordinary Vickers Vimy.

In other long-range flights with the Vimy, e.g. to Australia, both the nose-wheel, and the nose skid were kept.

The reason for the nose over at landing was not the lack of nose-wheel, but the fact that they landed in a bog. Both flyers were absolutely exhausted, physically and mentally, after a night flight over a cold and cloudy north Atlantic. Several times during the flight Brown, the engineer, had to climb out on the wing in the middle of the night and try to dislodge great lumps of ice from one of the carburettors. Also one of the exhaust manifolds broke away, which made the engine spew sparks continuously over the airmen, sitting right in line with the propellers. Alcock lost control over the aircraft in cloud and darkness and spun in, only recovering at very low altitude over the ocean.

No wonder they elected to land immediately they spotted some green earth which seemed capable of accomodating the Vimy, instead of flying on to London as planned.

This is a worthy effort, replicating the aircraft of that flight.

Leif

[chapuzas100]

Thank you very much for your comments and for your encouragement.

The construction progress and every day is bigger.



Un saludo

[Ron40]

Great progress and workmanship also. If you don't win
the contest then it's rigged...Ron

[chapuzas100]

The model is completed























First I want to thank everyone for the comments that you done with my work, I had to run hard to arrive in time for the contest and that is why the model has several flaws, luckily in the photos are few.

A greeting and thanks.