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HAWKER FURY BIPLANE-complete build sequence 'build A Long with Wonwing'
Wings have all been cleaned up,tips shaped and the Fury rigged up with weights and wood jigging pieces,as you can see upper wings are in place and glued,the model will not be touched but left to dry until tomorrow when the the lower wings can be fitted,it is a tricky job best done in stages...- wonwinglo
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Aircraft paintings in watercolour
Arado 234. Arrow Sport. FW.190 D9 Bristol Sycamore. Venom. Westland Wyvern. Hangar montage. Comet 1.- wonwinglo
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HAWKER FURY BIPLANE-complete build sequence 'build A Long with Wonwing'
A morning spent fettling the wings and making adjustments to the wing fitting areas,the wingtips have been fitted with depron infills so these can be sanded to the contours of the wings,nice and light and a good base for where the tissue covering goes.- wonwinglo
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The biplanes are ready for summer-When it arrives !
All overhauled and ready to flex their wings,but where is summer ? checking back in my log books five years ago I was flying by this time,and I hope that Weston Park at the weekend is going to be good weather as well. From the front to rear-Fokker D7 in Howard Hughes personal scheme,model will...- wonwinglo
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HAWKER FURY BIPLANE-complete build sequence 'build A Long with Wonwing'
Time to move onto the wings. Lower spars laid down.- wonwinglo
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Aircraft paintings in watercolour
A few more to brighten up a a wful rainy cold evening,thank you for your kind comments it is a pleasure to share them with you all. BE2C Hawker Hart. Me.163 Komet. de Havilland Chipmunk. Notar helicopter. Piper Aztec. Savoia Marchetti SM.55. Shorts Seamew. Spad SVII- wonwinglo
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Aircraft paintings in watercolour
Lightning. Albatros DVA. 'Channel Dash' Mosquito. DH.84 Dragon. Hunting Percival Sea Prince. Cierva C.30A Autogiro. Robinson R.22.- wonwinglo
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Aircraft paintings in watercolour
A few of my watercolour aeroplane pictures. Thruxton Jackaroo. Hawker Hurricane. Handley Page Hastings. Hawker Hind. Handley Page Marathon. Northrop Gama Boeing PT-17 Stearman. Brantly B.2- wonwinglo
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HAWKER FURY BIPLANE-complete build sequence 'build A Long with Wonwing'
With the cabane strut wood pieces now added and the tail assembly ready for installation here are some more pictures from the workbench today. And some bonus items ,the Hawker Fury has nearby friends under restoration and under build. The Bristol Beaufghter undergoing restoration...- wonwinglo
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HAWKER FURY BIPLANE-complete build sequence 'build A Long with Wonwing'
And showing the strut wires in place plus the addition of a wooden forward facing strut in between soon all will be faced with wood as well,the wire is for strength and the wooden streamlining for scale effect. The jigging you see below the wing centre section is torn away when everything is in...- wonwinglo
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HAWKER FURY BIPLANE-complete build sequence 'build A Long with Wonwing'
Moving on to sort out the cabane centre section and allied strutting,the only real way to do a biplane centre section is to prepare simple sacraficial jigging,the jig is placed around the area of the fuselage and parts built around it giving the exact wing incidence and rigging decalarge,the...- wonwinglo
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A 78 year old relic-BOEING STEARMAN PT-17
This is the most important and cherished model in my collection,built in 1941 by my father from firewood whilst serving in the RAF and undergoing his flying training at Lakeland,Florida with Uncle Sam,the model is of the aeroplane he was training on the Boeing PT-17 Stearman Kadet trainer...- wonwinglo
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HAWKER FURY BIPLANE-complete build sequence 'build A Long with Wonwing'
The work on the Hawker Fury today centers around starting to make the tail surfaces and adding a bit of cockpit detail,here we go.... We can use the kit parts to make the tail frames but these will have 1/32nd balsa cladding and hinged with additional spars in place for our small powered...- wonwinglo
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HAWKER FURY BIPLANE-complete build sequence 'build A Long with Wonwing'
Time to fit the small outrunner motor so everything else can be worked out around it,firstly a small ply bulkhead is made up and the motor bolted into place,then it is positioned so it gives 3 degrees right thrust to compensate for the torque of the motor pulling to the left,a few degrees of...- wonwinglo
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HAWKER FURY BIPLANE-complete build sequence 'build A Long with Wonwing'
Quite a bit of progress today centered around the wheels and removal of the front upper portion of the fuselage for access. The flimsy vac formed wheels have ben transformed into workable items,I did not want to discard them because the shape is very distinctive to the Hawker biplane...- wonwinglo
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HAWKER FURY BIPLANE-complete build sequence 'build A Long with Wonwing'
This mornings work on the Hawker Fury centered around the undercarriage main leg fairings which support the hefty internal suspension on the real aircraft,also the undercarriage attachments were improved,they just go into thin air on the plan as is usual with this kind of model,I use kits as a...- wonwinglo
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HAWKER FURY BIPLANE-complete build sequence 'build A Long with Wonwing'
We are sailing along now with the fuselage and all stringers are in place,as the nose needs to take the motor this has been sheeted in between the stringers a time consuming task that took about a day to complete,everything has now been sanded and contoured around the nose area,next task is to...- wonwinglo
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Gloster Meteor T7 Scratchbuild
Balsa and Pine scratchbuild Gloster Meteor T.7- wonwinglo
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