DH50 and B24 Liberator

Bager
There’s the possibility that at a later stage we’ll take a mould from that replica sometime if we have other people who want one.
I thought there was a long chance that someone might want to make a flying one someday, so I built about 3 degrees of washout into the wings, as I thought that might make it less touchy to fly.
The B24 and the S25 Sunderland have the cockpit placement that lends itself to making a flying miniature.
The S23 Empire boat and the PBY Catalina, sadly, don’t work out so well because their windscreens are too far forward.
I started making a 1/4 scale Sunderland to fly, but lack of suitable engines and lack of time and funds eventually put the brakes on that idea and I scrapped it.
I still think a flying Sunderland around 1/3 scale would be a useful, almost practical aircraft with the right engines.
GeoffR

The replica Empire Flying Boat will be the dream of a lifetime I would guess! That’s some project!

[DH86 and S23 will be full sized. That means they can never be fully assembled in my workshop. The S23 poses some challenges, and will need engineering input, but should be quite striking. It will float in a purpose-built harbour.
GeoffR[/QUOTE]

There’s room in that B-24 Mini for a pilot… ever consider a flying version?

Geoff
Nice to see a B-24 Lib model .
My RAAF father’s 31 SAAF Lib. KH158 [with 8 crew] is still missing somewhere in or off Italy , since 12th October 1944.

Anne

We make moulds for the wings (from a fabric covered wing),tail surfaces, engine and struts, and building jigs for the propellers. The rest is steel tube closely following the equivalent size and positioned spruce of the original, covered with flat fibreglass panelling.
Our flying wires are precision cut (Abrasive Water Jet) flat bar with rounded edges.
We hope the replicas will last indefinitely with practically no maintenance, and they are robust enough to be interactive, so within reason patrons can touch and have access to them inside and out.

DH86 and S23 will be full sized. That means they can never be fully assembled in my workshop. The S23 poses some challenges, and will need engineering input, but should be quite striking. It will float in a purpose-built harbour.

No moulds taken from the Liberator sadly…time and money wouldn’t allow.

GeoffR

G’Day Geoff,
Nice stuff, as ever. For a heart stopping moment I thought you’d knocked out a 1:1 Lib over a weekend! 😀

Regards,

Splendid jobs, both! Do you produce moulds at the same time or are they once only ‘scratch-builds’?
What scale will the DH-86 and Short S.23 Empire be?

Prototype DH86 from Getty
http://tinyurl.com/3xom3ql