I wanted to do something large...with a bit more detail.
I also wanted something that could be motorized...maybe have a spinning propellor?
What I have been working on is roughly 1/6 scale, but that was a fluke.
I started with a small electric motor, measured its width, etc and built that center former box big enough to accommodate it.
Then I just worked outwards from there and when I measured it all, it was already close to 1/6 scale.
So I made the necessary adjustments to get it as close as possible to 1/6.
As I mentioned at the start, this is an old project idea that I never got rolling with...
until now...after I saw a motorized engine model online.
This engine interested me because the single row (9 cyl) WASP engine powers the little GeeBee racer,
but more importantly, the double row WASP engine (18 cyl) is the engine in the P47 Thunderbolt Fighter.
And of course, I have a few Jug kits in my store.
Did you know there is a four row WASP?!! Thats 36 cylinders! The WASP Major.
Check it out:
Pratt & Whitney R-4360-35 Wasp Major, 4-Row, Radial 28 Engine | National Air and Space Museum
One of the problems I have run into is the number of WASP engine variants and different Cylinder designs.
*Different years and different applications...like Corsair I guess?! lol
I am attempting to focus on the R2800-21, a later version specifically for the P47 I believe.
Because of the scale, I can't over-simplify as much as I would like to!
For the longest time I was working on a Cylinder assembly, which tunred out to be a lot more challenging than I had thought.
Rendering it as a buildable paper model isn't going to be easy!
I finally completed a design before starting on the Crankcase...
only to find out its not the same as the intended v.21(P47) version!
Regrettably I will have to chuck out all the cylinder work and restart from scratch now.
As I said, this is to be a P47 engine...I had planned to build it on some sort of engine stand,
or maybe even a stand similar to the Thunderbolt frame.
Maybe something like whats in the photo below.
The internet offers me a lot of reference photos of WASP engines, but a little too much to be honest,
and its confusing to pick through the hundreds of variants.
I'd love to focus on one engine (like the one in the photo) but there just aren't enough photos of this particular one.
If anyone is visiting a Museum that has a P47 R2800 on display, I'd love a few hundred photos of it?!
The one pictured is in the USAF Museum Dayton.
It would also be nice to get some actual measurements since I have been guessing on a few things!
