Aileron Removal-Part-6 of Detailing & Building the Revell Monogram 1/48 scale B-17G.
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- Опубликовано: 5 сен 2024
- In part-6 of detailing and building the Revell Monogram B-17G, Mike shows you how to remove the ailerons, clean them up and reattach them with scratchbuilt hinges.
Mike, thank you very much for this series on b-17, explaining in great detail the scratch building of the ailerons, looking forward to next part too!
Mike, you make want to get these kits and do some scratch building.at last it will have to wait till I can get all of my modeling stuff out of storage.....
Thanks for the tutorial Mike. I've been doing this for years and people always ask me about it. Your approach is somewhat different from mine, but I believe I like your approach more. I am curious about how you deal with the offset in the trailing edge of the cutouts for the ailerons. You briefly mention that the top and bottom edges don't line up, which is what I have seen as well on nearly every model I've built. I know that this is an intentional design on the real aircraft so I have always tried to maintain that offset. However, it does create problems with positioning the up aileron because the top edge extends further back than the bottom edge.
Looking at the videos, it appears that the vertical filler between the wing top and bottom fits up against the bottom edge and up underneath the top edge which would tend to even them out if the offset is not too great. But that would also mean that the lower aileron forward edge would tend to hold the aileron further away from the wing unless a corresponding offset amount was removed from the aileron lower surface forward edge. Hope this description is clear.
Anyway, can you expand a bit on this particular aspect of the process? Thanks.
Howdy
i just even out the opening in the wing and aileron.
this simplifies things and makes adding the hinges easier.
Mike😊
@@scalemodeling Thanks Mike
The aileron design where the width between the top and the bottom are different is known as the Frise aileron design. It allows air to seep between the aileron and the wing when banking. The air helps push the aileron up or down which assists the pilot with banking at speed. Once powered control surfaces in aircraft became standard, the design became obsolete. In 1/48, if you're posing flexed ailerons just a couple degrees it's hardly noticeable. If working in a larger scale or flexing the ailerons more, you may want to model this feature.
Did mine with the flaps down makes cutting the aerolons out easier as you do it with the wings in half and you can lean into the line's without the wing flexing same with the flaps 🤔