Search results

The propeller assembly is a bit more mysterious. Going on things I've watched in other build threads I've tried to make it as smooth looking as possible. First up you have to wrap a large piece around some wire pieces. Now that I've done it, I can't figure out why the wire is needed (see...

Next up I'm doing the cockpit and propeller assemblies in parallel so as to save time, one bit can dry while I work on another. The cockpit is nothing out of the ordinary, but one note is that the seatbelt parts (K6 series) don't seem to be mentioned in the diagram anywhere. UPDATE: I've...

I think I saw that the online version had been updated. But I'll keep an eye out... Rick

I was going to ask the same thing, but I too was heistant to question "The Man" on anything! I'll bet Johhny has a good reason, but I'd do it the lazy way (assuming I'd attempt such a mind boggling thing in the first place!).

Lastly (for now) the finished motor. About 105 parts in all! I'm kinda glad it did not have any more cylinders :grin:

OK, here is one cylinder done and mounted. I painted the wire flat gray to take the shine off.

Once the head is on you have to glue on the little pushrod covers. They need to be rolled into a curve, and I found a neat little hard foam rubber block that makes a handy curve roller for small parts, pressing and rolling with small round things like the toothpick here. Hope the picture...

Once the bottom bits are together, you have to cap it with the head piece. When glueing the 3 main parts together, align all the seams so they can be at the back, and that puts the main cylinder part in correct orientation to receive the head part. you'll have to squeeze the cone part together...

This is the first time I've done a radial motor, so I had to guess and experiment with sequence of assembly. I think for this one I came up with one that suited me that was fast and easy, you may not like it at all! I see that the 2 cylinder band pieces have a glue tab so they must intend...

Here are all the parts for one cylinder laid out. The wire is here 20 gauge floral stem wire, a bit less than 1mm. I found both 20 ga and 18 ga wire at Michael's for less than 2 bucks for a bag of wire that'd last a lifetime.

Here's a pic of the crankcase (don't get too excited now). I found that the front of it has the white area where the conical front section glues is drawn too large. You have to color it in with marker or paint. I started trying scoring the parts on the backside by transferring lines with a...

Started with getting the laminated parts ready. I decided to go with built up card stock instead of cardboard to see how that went. I ended up going with 3 sheets of 110 lb stock plus the one sheet of 65lb that the parts were printed on. I don't have a digital caliper (yet, it's on the List)...

Hi all, I'm going to try my hand at a build thread! I'm starting with something relatively simple, and a free model to boot. It is the GeeBee R1 racer by Rafal Ciesielski. You can download it here: http://www.gremirmodels.com/downloads.htm I wanted to start a build thread for several...

VERY cool project, David! How large were all those disks? I just got a hobbico circle cutter and it does a pretty decent job, all the way down to 2 cm diameter. And it only cost about $8-9. Too late for this project, but it sounds like it'd be a big help with something like this...

This is just astounding! I know the link has been posted a few months ago mentioning the functional paper V-Twin on this guy's site, but now he's got a V-8 - with 5756 parts! A kit is forthcoming for $85, which I'd never buy but still. :-o http://www.yeesjob.com/paper-model.htm