Douglas Rolfe cutaway drawings

[JohnM]

Hmm! The Seabee in the Zealot downloads is by James Harston.

Regretably I don't have enough points on Zealot and am not allowed to download anything yet.

Johnny.

PS: I've just found a few listed on eBay. So I'm off for a gander.

[Gil]

Originally Posted by Swampfox

If your interested in an excellent collection of illustrations done during WWII, check out this amazing book.

Graphic War: The Secret Aviation Drawings and Illustrations of World War II: Donald Nijboer: 9781554078929: Amazon.com: Books

You'll be busy for days, weeks just paging through this one.

SFX

Just picked up a new copy for a bit over $12. I looked through the book and found the narrative more impressive than the illustrations. Strange, I know.

Leif's discovery of the RC-3 cutaways provided an interesting a-ha! moment. The fact that the lower fuselage is actually built as a boat prior to the upper fuselage addition makes many of the design question marks disappear.

To do the model justice it needs to be at least 1:24 to 1:16 scale. I've developed a method using homemade aluminum foil tape that can be burnished onto cardstock foil side down on a glass flat . Burnishing foil on top of paper laying flat on the glass does not work - the foil only picks up the paper imperfections relieving the modeler of any suspension of disbelief in his or her effort to mimic aluminum surfaces in miniature [guess how long it took to figure that one out...,]

The wing stiffeners represent an interesting problem. I've tried embossing the foil clad paper and it works to a point but is far from satisfactory. A thicker foil embossed using an embossing form works perfectly. The embossed stiffeners need to be back filled with a reinforcing paste or CA hardened paper inserts after final forming.

Other parts will need to be buck formed from thick foil and back stiffened with a CA paper layer. This not your regular cut, score, fold and glue model by any stretch of the imagination.

The parts and pieces of the design are slowly coming together. Inventing whole new modeling methods, techniques and combinations thereof is a daunting task, at minimum, requiring maximum tenaciousness in the face of a consistent and persistent world class failure conspiracy system...,

+Gil

[mbauer]

Sure would be grand to find out if Douglas Rolfe did some cut-aways of the Coanda 1910 powerplant and airplane!

His work is outstanding!

Thanks for sharing this thread Leif!

Mike

[JohnM]

James Harston's Seabee from Zealot successfully downloaded and printed.
I think it is meant to be an A3 print, but halving it to fit on A4
looks a more practical size. I think it's still a lot bigger than 1/72.
Wingspan will be 9". I've not tripped over any 1:1 dimensions for it yet.
Can any one relate that to a scale?

I'll build as is first off but I may well try another 50% reduction on it after.
I'll try to take pics as I build it, but my camera doesn't like close ups.

Johnny.

[Gil]

Hi Johnny,

I'll be watching your build of the Fiddler's Green version.

I took a little time to update the RC-3 fuselage design last evening. Still needs some work to massage the Nurbs surface seams. A render is included below.

+Gil

[JohnM]

Hi Gil,

You seem to be working from an acurate detail plan.
Can you tell me the actual 1:1 wingspan so that I can more acurately judge the scale of my one?

It was downloaded from Zealot. Author James Hairston, Uploaded by Elliott.

No mention of Fiddlers Green on it. If it was available on FG I would have found it a long time ago now.

I'm also bidding on eBay for Plans to build an RC version. I have an RC Catalina already.
Mine's the only bid so far, but being Stateside it will take a while to get here, if I win of course.

Johnny.

[Gil]

Hi John,

The wingspan of the RC-3 "Seabee" is 37 feet 8 inches. The drawings I am using are by Paul Matt and are fairly accurate.

+Gil

[Edubarca]

Originally Posted by JohnM

OK Leif. As long as you don't mind.

Just to say I found a plastic kit for a Seabee ...

Old Plastic Model Kits: model airplane kits, Revell, Monogram, Aurora

But at that price I guess they are pretty rare huh?

I also found some plans for a Flying scale Balsa one.

Republic Sea Bee

These could well be useful towards a paper one too methinks.

I'll start a new thread if I get anywhere with it, but my production rate is slooooow, and there's too many in the pipeline already.

Johnny.

There are several balsa flying versions of this beautiful aircraft,. Just check Outerzone : Free plans : Collection of free vintage model aircraft plans to download

[3Turner]

Please be mindful linking websites to the forum which hosts pirated materials; books, paper models, etc. I deleted one post with a link.
Thank you. Carry on.

[jarhead94]

Cleveland models had a kit of the Seabee & I
think you can still buy the plans from their web site.
it is a stick/tissue kit/plan

cheers