Made a 12 inch long steel airplane from rough plans, to which I added a scaled, nine cylinder rotary engine I designed from tiny hardware parts.
Behind the engine is a clock mechanism. (As you can see, the photo was taken at a little after 9:30.) The second hand is the propeller. The landing gear is my vague evocation of 1930s style wheel coverings and model wheels.
It’s a cutesy sort of item, but trust me, it was a lot of work. (Especially the bloody cowling around the engine.)
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Looks very nice to me! It’s especially impressive to me, as I know nothing about working with metal. Also, this:
http://www.art.com/products/p871854450-sa-i4060500/frederick-barnard-charles-dickens-s-a-tale-of-two-cities-portrait-of-sydney-carton.htm
Is that a red bottle of discwasher fluid on your shelf? Yes, I’m bored here with the show my wife and I are watching now.
It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done…
Nice work!
Thanks!
The very first thing that struck me was “how did he do the cowling?”
Excellent work.
Nice. I like the second-hand-as-propeller idea.
OK, HERE GOES MY NERD SIDE.
IF THE PROPELLER SPINS AND THE ENGINE
STAYS STILL IT IS A RADIAL ENGINE.
IF THE CRANKSHAFT IS FIXED AND THE
CYLINDERS ROTATE WITH THE PROP IT IS A
ROTARY ENGINE.
PRETTY MODEL AND NICELY DONE. AS A METAL FAB GUY AND AIRCRAFT MECH, I SAY “NICE
JOB”.
WILL FREISMUTH
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