Nakajima B5N 'Kate'

Testor's Wood and Metal cement is celluloid. It is similar to Ambroid, but thicker consistency.

Phil

DUCO and Sigment are good alternatives, too! Started the wing this weekend. Ribs rough cut, pinned together then top surface sanded. I'm building the top half of the wing first then will add balsa to the flat bottom in order to make a semi-symmetrical wing. To cut the spar slot for the tapered spar a 'spacer' was put on one end so that the slot is 4mm on wing tip end and 8mm on root end. Passing this across the table saw got the desired result. The spar was pinned flat side down then ribs added. The false LE added after truing the front end of ribs with sanding stick. Once dry the ribs were sanded fair. There are double ribs at the dihedral break location. A dihedral gauge used to set one rib properly each side. When wing is done the outer panels can get cut free then re-glued with a brace. Top surface LE and TE sheeting added. Once it's all dry it'll get finished. That's all for now!

ARUP, Whats the wingspan on your Kate ?

akjgardner, it'll be a little over 25". I've been working on it a little at a time. Been putting ribs on bottom side a few at a time then sanding them. Eventually it'll be a semi-symmetrical foil.

got any new updates on the Kate?

akjgardner wrote:got any new updates on the Kate?

He's working on the Nieuport 28.

Yes, I would like to see the Kate in finished form too. BTW, looking at the last photo with the Ambroid, my LHS has a lot of it for sale. Maybe it's available again.

My apologies for the inactivity. The wings just don't look like Guillow's construction and I've been thinking about re-building them but then I hate to just toss what is built. The Nieuport plans are laid out but nothing is started. I'm lazy! Better buy that Ambroid while you can. Its shelf life is almost forever and you will eventually use it!

rsv1cox wrote:

akjgardner wrote:got any new updates on the Kate?

He's working on the Nieuport 28.  

Yes, I would like to see the Kate in finished form too.  BTW, looking at the last photo with the Ambroid, my LHS has a lot of it for sale.  Maybe it's available again.

Bob is it the same as the pic of that there tube?? and how much was it if so> Eric

This is it Eric.



I no longer have the receipt but the price didn't scare me off, probably $2.99. I was in there last week and the Ambroid display had about 6 tubes left. I will check the price when I go back next time.

Bob

Bob O buddy /pal /long distance friend /sweet pea of mine if that's 2.99-3.99 or so would you bee so kind as to pick me up 2 tubes and send them to me I will pay you for your price and time . Eric

No problem old buddy friend of mine and fellow model airplane knocker. I should be going back sometime next week.

The ole' sweet pea Bob

Thank You Sir. Eric

ARUP, have you ever considered using CAD ?  Your drafting and geometry skills demonstrated are certainly adequate.

ARUP wrote:Fred, thank you kindly for your response AND your 'views'. I have a thread going on RCG and it has absolutely no responses and very few 'views'. Amazing.

Here's how the fuselage formers will get their stringers. The largest former was number 4 so it was traced onto a piece of paper then a scrap paper was used to measure a quadrant. It was 44mm long and 4 stringers should suffice so 44/5 gives ~9mm spacing. Artisitic license used to draw points around the former then diagonals drawn to get these points, mirror image fashion, to the other quadrants. This becomes the guide to draw stringer stations on all the other formers. These former were then traced onto the plans for future reference. Hope this makes sense.







I have more formers to cut from balsa. Once they started getting put onto the plans more pics will come!

I purchased 'Compufoil' many moons ago. I also did a test trial of Solidworks. I can make 'em work to some degree considering I didn't really know what I was doing but just couldn't get 'warm and fuzzy' with 'em. Too sterile. I have written code using keypunch card readers as an engineering student in the 70's and, man, did I ever hate that stuff! FORTRAN, COBOL, One Write Plus, Dec10, Paschal, etc. It was sheer misery! PC Write was better and modern computing is even brainless! I could do the work and make the programs 'do' what they were written to do but... to put it bluntly... that crap sucked! To this day I have an aversion to all things 'computer' but they are ubiquitous anymore and a necessary evil, IMHO. FWIW, I built my own rig which I use to play 'Wings Over Flanders Fields', 'do' e-mails and internet stuff, like on here, so they do have some virtues! I can build and solder electronics projects but it just isn't my 'thing'. I like pencil, paper, straight edges and eraser! I can even loft lines and do other various 'sundry' draftsman exercises. It's fun to take a few photos to find 'vanishing points' in order to generate three views. Simple but tedious stuff. I had a tutorial on another forum showing how you don't need CAD to generate plans and sections but the thread got absolutely no hits. *sigh* I'll never do that again. I like building unusual models which means there are no kits and plans are either non-existent or not to my liking. It's very handy being able to make your own! If you wanna see 'tedious' have a look at my 1923 'Charlotte II' build on scalesoaring.com forums in 'scale sailplanes'.