I have the wonderful pleasure of using my bit of free time during this summer to do a beta build of Murph's BMW Schnellbomber 1. This is pure Luft '46 stuff, and it's my favorite design of the bunch.
I am building this straight as designed and printed. I am keeping the connected glue tabs. I usually remove them and add my own connecting strips, but I thought I'd give the old tabs another go. The only fancy stuff I'm doing is edge coloring, and using cardboard behind the engine plates, and on the wheel sides.
1. The model is 8 pages + 1 instruction sheet.
2. I started the build by doing the wing spar box. As this plane has a very unique wing shape, I thought I'd build it and test if I'd need to add reinforcing to the wing spar. After building, it is quite rigid, so nothing else should be needed at this small of a scale.
3. Some details of the wing spar- engine exhaust ports (exhaust exits trailing edge of wing, to these spots will be visible.
4. Nose section rings formed
5 & 6. Nose section completed. ( I had some trouble with the tiny tabs fitting properly at first. This was my doing, as once I got the pieces massaged correctly, they went together well.)
7. Mid fuselage sections formed
8 & 9. Mid fuselage connected to nose section
10. Tail section parts
11. Tail sections formed
12. Completed tail and nose sections: I dry-fit the nose and tail sections at this point to try and find an approximate center of balance. Doing this helps determine about how much nose weight will be needed.
13. I settled on 3 small fishing weights. Not sure on the actual amount of weight (size 5 weights)
14. To prep for adding weight, I stuffed a small amount of glue soaked napkin (or paper towel sometimes) into the nose section and packed it in place.
15. I rolled the weights in glue, and dropped them in place in the nose on top of the napkin. I then packed more crumpled napkin on top of the weights until I filled the fuselage section to the wing box openings.
16. Vertical and horizontal tail pieces. Be sure to NOT score the leading edges. These should be rolled to a nice smooth point, not creased.
(Note, there is an optional tail piece included that does not have the swastika)
17. Assembled empennage
18. Completed tail section
19. Completed fuselage (with wing box inserted)
I am building this straight as designed and printed. I am keeping the connected glue tabs. I usually remove them and add my own connecting strips, but I thought I'd give the old tabs another go. The only fancy stuff I'm doing is edge coloring, and using cardboard behind the engine plates, and on the wheel sides.
1. The model is 8 pages + 1 instruction sheet.
2. I started the build by doing the wing spar box. As this plane has a very unique wing shape, I thought I'd build it and test if I'd need to add reinforcing to the wing spar. After building, it is quite rigid, so nothing else should be needed at this small of a scale.
3. Some details of the wing spar- engine exhaust ports (exhaust exits trailing edge of wing, to these spots will be visible.
4. Nose section rings formed
5 & 6. Nose section completed. ( I had some trouble with the tiny tabs fitting properly at first. This was my doing, as once I got the pieces massaged correctly, they went together well.)
7. Mid fuselage sections formed
8 & 9. Mid fuselage connected to nose section
10. Tail section parts
11. Tail sections formed
12. Completed tail and nose sections: I dry-fit the nose and tail sections at this point to try and find an approximate center of balance. Doing this helps determine about how much nose weight will be needed.
13. I settled on 3 small fishing weights. Not sure on the actual amount of weight (size 5 weights)
14. To prep for adding weight, I stuffed a small amount of glue soaked napkin (or paper towel sometimes) into the nose section and packed it in place.
15. I rolled the weights in glue, and dropped them in place in the nose on top of the napkin. I then packed more crumpled napkin on top of the weights until I filled the fuselage section to the wing box openings.
16. Vertical and horizontal tail pieces. Be sure to NOT score the leading edges. These should be rolled to a nice smooth point, not creased.
(Note, there is an optional tail piece included that does not have the swastika)
17. Assembled empennage
18. Completed tail section
19. Completed fuselage (with wing box inserted)
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