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1/48 scale DH 83 Fox Moth
Designed by Arthur Hagg in 1932, the Fox Moth with its cockpit aft of a small cabin, has something of the lines of Hagg's later creation the celebrated de Havilland Comet. The attractive aircraft features many pleasing shapes, the characteristic de Havilland tail and wing tips, the elegant gipsy engine cowling and the way the shapes of the front windows are repeated in the Fox Moth's nose profile.
Conceptually a 'feeder airliner', the depressed economy of the 1930's was reflected in both the need for and the development of the Fox Moth, which borrowed components from the De Havilland DH 82A Tiger Moth. Although we have already designed the Fox Moth in 1/72 scale, the new scale is an opportunity to add much detail and create a more visually impressive model. We've included a picture of our 1/72 scale with an image of the 1/48 scale fuselage for comparison.
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1/48 Scale DH 83 Fox Moth design
Like many of our designs the fuselage requires inners to add rigidity.
One of the things we wanted to do was create a bulge to replicate the form of the cabin windows. The doors have two small darts and are filled with tissue and white glue, then set into the appropriate gaps. The deck of the Fox Moth involves careful gluing and features three small darts on either side to enable the desired curvature.
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Components for assembling the cockpit.
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Keeping the fuselage square is very important, something that can easily go awry with a misplaced bulkhead or cabin assembly.
We've also started on the wings, which are shown here without their tips.
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Wing assembly showing the internal pieces with the wing tips in place. If you glue edge to edge, the joins on the tips are barely visible.
The cardboard and 0.25 wire spar make up into a tidy well formed wing. Important always to match the dihedral of the spar against scale drawings.
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This is another beautiful Contour Creative Golden Age model. Many thanks for the clear explanation and excellent images, Terry. They are msot valuable.
And thanks for making these wonderful pieces of aviation history available. Don |
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Checking the design
The only way to really find out if the design is accurate is check against good photographs!
The prototype fuselage is photographed with as little lens distortion as possible then the image is imported into drawing software and the key features of the model aircraft are traced, before laying the traced image over an accurate profile drawing, which is referenced with photographs. Here we can see that there is still some more engineering required, but overall the design is very accurate - including the rivets around the window.
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I love this kind of thing: a peek behind the scenes at the research and design and the comparison of the model or drawings with photographs.
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Hi Don..hope you are well..I think you will like this one. It has some nice engineering and not as challenging size-wise as the 1/72 scale. I can't say the design has not been without its headaches - the usual problems with inaccurate master drawings to hurdle - but it is nearly finished.
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We have re-engineered the design and now, with the fuselage in place and only the lower wing attached, the attractive and distinctively early 'thirties
appearance of the Fox Moth is now evident. The front engine cowing is created from an asymmetric structure and reinforced with tissue paper and white glue. This is a refinement of earlier designs and ensures the starboard side of the cowling has no join lines. Slightly stretching the paper with a ball end or an engraving tool (or a similar 'found' object), adds a more rounded and realistic appearance to the cowling.
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