Reworking aircraft models by other authors into 1/87 scale

[Karl]

Thought you might be interested to see this Leif.

https://aviation-safety.net/wikibase/wiki.php?id=189271

One of your models ditched in the sea.

[Leif Ohlsson]

Karl - what a pity on that pretty airplane. Good to hear, though, that the pilot made it.

Ryan - belated congrat's on your new pretty airplane!

- Leif

[Gil]

The Turbulent's landing without floats was well executed. The crowd later picked the Turbi up and brought it to the beach.

Ryan, a taildragger in its natural skin - quite a right purty bird. Are you giving tail dragger lessons in it? In fact that'd make a beautiful all aluminum 1:24 model.

-Gil

[RyanShort1]

Originally Posted by Gil

Ryan, a taildragger in its natural skin - quite a right purty bird. Are you giving tail dragger lessons in it? In fact that'd make a beautiful all aluminum 1:24 model.

Yeah, I don't give a ton of lessons in her with my real job taking up a lot of time, but that's her! Fun plane. And you're right, that would be a perfect aluminum job.

Ryan

[yashodhanp]

@Mr. Leif Ohlsson,
Hi, I am relatively new to this hobby. I have been trying to understand how to glue up the horizontal stabilizer. will i was able to understand the leading edge part, and the trailing edge. The sides are still a mystery to me. and how does one 'Close" these edges?
For the Cessna 172.
I shall be building the original plans by Julius.

any help will be greatly appreciated.

Regards

[Leif Ohlsson]

Hello Yashod (hope I got that right),

Closing the fuselage remained a mystery to me as well, when studying Jule Perdana's original design. Which is why I redesigned the fuselage parts in the 1/87 rescaled version which is offered in the downloads section. The description of that version can be found earlier in this thread.

I haven't actually built either version, so you will just have to make your own choice of which version to build. If you decide to build my version, I think it would be wise to rescale it back to some larger scale. 1/87 admittedly is very small... In any case, do have a look at the redesign of the fuselage parts, and see if the redesign might help you out. Perhaps you could do something like it with your original scale model.

I think this is a very worthy project to build and I do wish you luck. Hope to see the story of your build published here on the site!

Leif

[Leif Ohlsson]

Here's a comparison for easier judgement. First the fuselage parts from the original model:



I thought that you could eliminate the top glue join by redesigning the fuselage sides and let the bottom part become a separate part, like this:



In addition I added gluestrips for closing the engine compartment top. Perhaps some of these changes could be incorporated into your original scale build?

Leif

[Gustaf Magnumson]

very nice ride

[Gustaf Magnumson]

Nice model.
Very nice

in the future , I must uploaded my model Cessna 150 on this forum.