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  1. Clunkmeister
    It seems the witch was already here at my shop.
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    Of all the stupid things, I struggled with the canopy fit on my first one of these. I let my guard down for 10 seconds and ended up creating myself 10 days needless work.
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    Looks great, John. This kit will throw you a curve every now and then Clever, eh? But in your defense, you're always chasing the little things with this. I think it's gonna be one of those great builds.
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    Crazy??? My ex says I'm something like the south end of a northbound mare...
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    Phil, I certainly get passionate about the models I really, really want to build. Unique subjects, overlooked aircraft types, and subjects that had an impact in my life are those types. A regular 109 or Spitfire doesn't do it for me, but this, a Fairchild 71C, Seafang, Bristol Freighter, all unique subjects that light my fire. A Blackburn Buccaneer and a Hawker Henley can get my juices flowing as well. But I also hear the big Fokker F.10 calling as well.
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    I'm suitably impressed with this, Cees. This is truly amazing, actually. I've never been a Phantom fan, but of all of them, the Spey powered version did it the most for me. Just so much more hulking and mean looking. Your ability to foresee problem areas is way beyond my meager paint-by-number abilities, then to actually turn those thoughts into actions that work is simply mind boggling. I'm still futzing around with models resembling four cornered shipping crates, and you're dealing in curvy ladies. Amazing work, Sir!
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    Me too, Hubert. The F.10 used a full wheel, and it was of a similar vintage. And a wheel would certainly have been beneficial.
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    One other thing we see is that as expected, aviation is evolutionary in nature, not revolutionary. These Fokkers have advanced greatly since the Dr.1, D.Vll, and D.Vlll were knocking Allied airplanes from the sky over Belgium, but not so much as to be unrecognizable as Fokkers. Tony Fokker and Robert Noorduyn absolutely OWNED the commercial airliner market in 1929. Ford was a far distant second place. Fokker Trimotors would carry more, fly farther, more economically, and easily run and hide from the draggy old Fords. Not until the early 30s wooden wing failures on trimotors due to improper storage and care by the users did the metal Fords gain any decent following. It also led to the development of purpose built metal airliners from Boeing, the Model 247, and Douglas, the DC-1, 2, and 3.
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    A clue to the cockpit layout is shown at the museum display of a crash scene at a museum in Alberta. We see a SINGLE basic leather pilot seat atop the engine oil tank, footboards like a Gladiator, Hurricane, Stearman, T-6, and PZL.11, and the elevator actuator tube out the sides of the fuselage for the elevator cables. But no sign of a wheel, yoke, or stick, though. Drat!
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    PHere’s most all the interior pics I’ve found so far. Along with Martin’s panel pic. The cabin pic is a Fokker factory pic, and you can see that Fokker and Noorduyn went to town making the cabins look like Pullman berths. I expect these Canadian workhorses soon lost the fancy broadcloth interiors in favor of plywood floors and interior walls, and hard leather benches.
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    Carl, From what I understand, a 3D printer shoots a very small line of liquid plastic onto a bed, and builds it up, pass after pass, until the end product is achieved. As a result, 3D prints have a “grain”. Material is added, not removed, so the interior is often hollow. As a result, you can “break through”, as I did, but the magic of Milliput saves my day again. Also, that is what accounts for the ‘grain’ on the surface of the parts, which needs to be treated like a pebbly surface on a bad low pressure injection kit and needs to be knocked back and the surface scribed with prototypical surface details such as panel lines, inspection panels, gun service bays, etc. In it’s hobby form, using less than NASA grade printers, it’s not a perfect art. Yet. But in a few years, watch out! In the meantime, it’ll give you good forms to base a project on. Consider it an already cut out vacuform kit. You need to open it up, prep and detail the surfaces, then scratchbuild all the details such as cockpit, engines, gear bays, landing gear, etc, etc, etc. plus, you’re on your own for clear parts. The Fokker has all flat clear parts, so it’ll be a nice, fairly basic project.
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    So am I to assume that the channel to the left of the hand pump is the stick? I have no clue if I’m dealing with a wheel, a yoke, or a stick.... And if it’s a stick, it sure seems like it’s set up for single pilot operation, with a pilot sitting dead center.
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    Same on the tail: sand down the front of the tail fairing to match the fuselage height, which will give it its noticeable dogleg.
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    You see what I’m trying to do here? Sand down the tailcone, then sand the relief section in the wing fillet to intersect the tailcone as seen in the pics. These pics better illustrate it.
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    If you don’t appreciate working with resin, you won’t appreciate this stuff either. The plastic here acts quite similarly to resin. It can warp while curing, but unlike resin, it can peel away when sanding. This is NOT a solid block, instead it’s a built up piece of various latticeworks. Sanding too far can allow for holes and cracks to appear. I needed to reduce the tailcone size, so some excessive work was needed, followed by a liberal application of Milliput. It’s importrant we achieve exactly the right crossection, so some minor changes were needed. But, as they say, we have first blood, so onward and upward. Notice the slight angle change of the top of the fuselage right aft the wing? That was something Mike and I both missed, so I cut down the top of the fuselage and will sand the wing turtleneck on an angle to intersect. Previously, we had it as a solid continuous line fro trailing edge to tailplane. oops.
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    Yep. I have the panel pic, and most of the Fokker and Fleet of Canada pics are on the Finch and the bigger trim motor airliners. The Super Universal seems a bit tough to find, because of its uniquely Canadian and Alaskan history, far away from the limelight. Also, in case people didn’t know, Japan produced its own unauthorized version of the Super Universal as well, and they served all through WW2.
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    What I need are some really, really good pics of the cabin interior and the cockpit, controls, pilot seat, etc. there a few pics of the restored aircraft’s panel, and one or two pics of the factory promo pic of the cabin, and a vintage panel pic. pretty much nothing else at all.
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    A size comparison. The Fokker is big. The CF-100 is huge!
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    The preorder page is up now, so I’ll definitely get one and see. Personally, I see very little benefit compared to the resin offering other than not needing to deal with pour blocks. One of the biggest issues with the resin offering were a few slightly overscale cockpit parts, and some fiction happening between the two crew members. No rollover bar, etc. Also those PE flaps are a real mojo drainer. Hopefully, AM comes to the rescue there. http://www.infinitymodels.cz/shop/
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    This aircraft supposedly used a 450 hp R985, but this certainly appears to be an R1340. And that’s probably the best that aircraft ever looked since leaving the factory in 1929.
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    I’m not sure if that was delamination, water damage, or a trick of the light, but it sure looks strange. I don’t think I’ll replicate that as it’s only in one or two pics.
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    I’d like to, no doubt.
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    So Mike Swinburne 3D printed me a Super Universal kit and it’s not a small aircraft. If anyone has some good pictures of the cabin, plus the cockpit area and control layout, I’d be obliged.
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    When, after decades of service, these aircraft finally broke down one too many times, they were generally just abandoned in the spot they stopped moving under their own power.
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    It’s been awhile since I really had my model mojo” going. Along the way, with various fits and starts with various ongoing projects, a few new truths began to emerge: Standard WW2 fighter builds bore me to death. Tamiya plastic bores me to death. I discovered I love building wood model ships in 1/64 scale. I love resin the best. Unique subjects never done before in man scale interest me even more. Then with Joy’s Dad passing, our getting the 56 Meteor up and running again, and then dealing with all our issues, the bench seemed to fade far away. My last real Passion Build was the RCAF Lanc conversion, which, let’s face it, was really a group effort. So I also figured out that I have a soft spot for civilian, or quasi civilian aircraft. Preferably in Canadian Service. One of my dream builds has been the Fokker Super Universal. It, along with the Fairchild 71C, and the Junkers W34, proved the viability of modern life in the Canadian North. All three aircraft had the same formula: single engine, float and ski capable, taildragger monoplanes with Pratt and Whitney radial power. Of these, the Fokker was by far the most numerous, proving to be a roaring success, which wasn’t surprising, being that it was designed specifically for the harsh realities of the Canadian north. So let’s see what we can do with the big Super.
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