My 1/72 Scale Planes

[Draco]

First full day of relax in three weeks.
I made the inner wing reinforcements, and the central part of the fuselage. I included too 3-4 gr of lead over the front wheel pit.
I'm planning to reinforce the tail and the leading edge of the wings, because they are the areas where the people will tend to pick the plane.

[Vinalssergio155]

A pleasure to greet you, excellent models you have built. Zio models are great, your work is very good and if you want to fit better try to paint the white edges with a similar color, you will see that great change is achieved.

[Draco]

Good idea, Vinalssergio155, thanks!

Im keeping with`the Draken, but, as you can see, I've printed two Prudenziatti models, one Albatross D V and one Eindekker.
I've reinforced parts of the Draken, and included a lot of tabs.
You can see that the air intakes are oval shaped (I'm using the 3D drawing in https://www.taringa.net/posts/info/1...gon-Sueco.html that casually, when printed in letter size, is exactly at 1/72 scale)
I forced the parts to maintein the oval making custom inner jet intakes.
Unfortunately this change of shape mean that the frontal part of the wings doesn't fix well with the fuselage, leaving a gap.
And, the real plane extends the air intakes ahead of the front undercarriage. If you see the picture with my plastic F-16 model, the paper model doesn't fit with the 3D drawing (nor the real model pictures)
I don't want to look disappointed. I like the paper model, It's easy to build and fun to do. Just that when you do yours, I'm hoping that you find a corrected version to download.
I'll do more Stahlhart models, surelly a B-26, and yes, this Draken is going to be treasured.
I used 4 gr of lead over the front wheel pit, but I found it too much. Just 2 gr will be enought.
The nose pitot (look at http://www.bundesheer.at/sk/lusk/abf...47a_zinner.jpg) is black with yellow stripes.

[Draco]

I had very few free time this weekend. Even so, I'm planing to finish the Draken this week and, after doing the Albatross DV and the Eindeker, I'll (probably) do a painted Swordfish. Surelly the Q of Queeny from the book To war in a Stringbag (https://www.amazon.com/War-Stringbag.../dp/0553136542)

[Draco]

And a small advance. As you can see, few parts remaining.

[Draco]

A friend of mine made remember the first Draken that I assembled. It was supposed to fly using a hand-made reactor engine that I thank God never did, because it would had exploded.
But, good memories....
The landing gear is being made, but if I had silver paint and plastic glue, I would had made it very different, more realistic. But... you must do the best that you can, if you say that you won't do something because it won't be perfect... then you'll never do anything.

[Draco]

And the Draken is finished!
As I said, the Stahlhart model is good, but at the same time has some inacuracies that baffles me. As you can see, the "elbow" of the wing has a crease. It was caused by the oval jet intake. The original paper model (OPM) has circular jet intakes. As you can see in the picture, that's not true. Another detail is that the jet intakes must be 5mm longer (depending the scale) reaching just to the begining of the frontal landing gear pit.
The paint is realistic. The fins are fine too, except the ventral one, it's a big rectangular one back and not a small aerodinamic one ahead.
The white rectangle painted on the rightmost landing gear door is not a mistake, the original one has it.
Mmm... can't upload the pictures, I'll try latter

[Draco]

Ok, I uploaded the pictures. Yes, I liked the plane.
I just need to fine some place to store it...
And start the next...

[Draco]

Some days of stress, some good news at the job, one day to relax with a Zio Prudenzio's Eindekker.
As you can see, the wings don't have aleirons, they flex. It has a few paint, being the rest metal and natural silk. The engine is rotative, meaning the propeler was fixed. The wings were designed with a bird's profile, meaning someting similar than a current date fixed fully open flaps profile.
The landing gear is complex... The join between the fuselage and the horizontal stabilizer is funny

[MichaelS]

Really nice job so far. I like Zio's kits as well. Just enough of a challenge to keep it interesting.