Bughunter
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45 days ago
Rotherham Air Pump and Wheels
Today I have another nice part to show.
The Sopwith Camel has a clever engineering. Instead of a fuel pump (long fuel lines to the pump and back) it used a pressurized tank. So it needs only air under pressure which is less risky on a fighter airplane. And there are different sources of this air, e.g. a hand pump, by engine and an airflow driven one: The Rotherham Air Pump.
Fasten your seatbelts - I think this is the smallest kit Eduard has ever released!
Teaser pic 1 The result of this update: The installed Rotherham Air Pump
Pic 2 The manual with the kit part on the right: a PE sheet with many different mounts and a little black 3D printed block.
Pic 3 The parts in closer view.
Pic 4 It is impressive what you can read from old small photos: here clearly propeller R10 and the pump R13 are needed!
Pic 5 The needed parts prepared.
Pic 6 A huge improvement over the kit part!
Now ot the first teaser photo: At first I added the air pressure pipe (copper), mounted the pump and glued as last last step the little propeller (painted Gunze Mahogany and Clear Orange).
As there are some free pics in this update here are the wheels:
Pic 7 Now the wheels are painted too with the help of some masks.
Pic 8 The wheels are plugged on for test.
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antampatz43 days agoAhh... the size of these parts!
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Bughunter43 days agoReplying to antampatz
@antampatz Yes, this set has very small parts so it is easy to break them while cutting from the printed frame. My ultrasonic cutter helped here.
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- BBughunter42 days ago
Replying to antampatz
@antampatz It is useful, but I don't use it always for 3D resin parts as it creates a little "cloud" of dust? burnt? resin, That is for sure not healthy. So if possible I use a resin saw and water.
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ozzys44 days agoExcellent job , all them cool details
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- BBughunter44 days ago
Replying to Christian
@christian Thank you! Not yet, my estimate is 3 additional updates of the build.
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Bogdan Bolda44 days agoIt looks better and better! Super fine details, makes your bird unique! 🥰
- BBughunter44 days ago
Replying to Bogdan Bolda
@bogdanbolda Thanks! Regarding the level of details my other Camels of different sub types are nearly on that level too. I show a photo later.
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Replying to Bughunter
@bughunter Please do so! Those who build and piloted those machines were real dare devils!
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- BBughunter44 days ago
@manu2 Yup, nice but damn small!
- BBughunter44 days ago
@cristiancarlone Thank you and have fun with the future updates too!
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Cristian Carlone44 days agoReplying to Bughunter
@bughunter, I’m sure I will! Thank you for detailing so well your techniques and make me appreciate WWI airplanes more!
- BBughunter44 days ago
@runway07r25l Thanks you! Mission accomplished!
- BBughunter44 days ago
@dutchdavemodelbench Thank you so much! Yes, I try to work professionally, but not in the sense that I sell my finished models! Never 😝 I try to build up a collection of types, but all is simply not possible. A reference book on First World War fighter planes in my library lists 500 German models alone, and there are many more British, French and other models as well.
