Nemere scale 1/6

Clifton · Posté le: 25/01/2016 00:06 Sujet du message:

Wow, so marvelous again. Lots of details so nice on this scale. Congratulations. [amen]

bocorvin · Posté le: 30/03/2016 19:42 Sujet du message:

Thank you all for the compliments!
All that was left to be done was the pilot and some interior details.
After a lot of hesitation I started with the head making in super sculpey, thanks to this forum! I found it not very easy to work with (its a bit sticky) I wanted tomake a pilot resembling Lajos Rotter.

After a lot of sweating this was the result...

It was heated in the oven (a bit to hot). I was to lazy to replicate it, so I drilled the head out to keep the weight down.

and accidentally drilled trough it. So I had to repair its scull .

I made the figure of balsa. The knee and elbow joints of copper (electrical wire) glued in the balsa limbs with cyano, the shoulder and hip from elastical cord.

(The protruding iron wire loop is just to pull the elastical cord through the balsa)

For his hair I used plumbers hemp (I guessed Lajos had black hair) glued on with PVA coloured with black acrylic paint

In the meantime Jenny had painted the face

I had asked my sister, Hans, to make his clothing. She started to make a pattern

and then the pants, shirt (with very small buttons!)

All the clothing has velcro on the rear.

Yes, the head is a bit big.
I also made a pair of sunglasses out of a pair old polaroid sunglasses.

and 0.45mm hard brass wire from Alan Gibson.

His "boots" is just his balsa feet, painted with cellulose with porienfuller, black acrylics and porienfuller again, well polished Very Happy

.
I could not easily find a suitable harness so I just made it; the buckles from tinned 0.7 mm hardbrass and some scrap

it is secured with a 0.3mm clip, through a 0.5mm hole im the central (2mm) pin. It is attached with fake hexagonal bolts behind his shoulders.

In the cockpit itself I made the uncoupler handle on the left

The wooden round knobs came from an art shop. On the right side I made a holder for rhe aerial map.

Suddenly it seems finished! All the electronics work, cg is OK. She is a bit heavy, 2800gr.
Now its waiting for good weather, so we will fly it for the first time .

Some shots outside,

To be continued.

philippe44 · Fidèle Posteur Inscrit le: 25 Nov 2013

sebastian92 · Posté le: 30/03/2016 19:50 Sujet du message:

very very nice job !!
you have chance to have a lot of place in the nose to place all radio and details Wink

Greg · Posté le: 30/03/2016 20:46 Sujet du message:

Stop, I can't more my eyes was putting outside!

Christian · Posté le: 30/03/2016 21:32 Sujet du message:

Christian

michel · Posté le: 30/03/2016 21:41 Sujet du message:

Superbe, et bons vols.

Michel

Clifton · Posté le: 30/03/2016 21:44 Sujet du message:

So marvelous details. Great great works [bave]

VincentB · Posté le: 31/03/2016 04:53 Sujet du message:

Congratulation Vincent, amazing work on the clothes [clap]

your pilot "hand made" has a Spirit, not like those from shop Wink

stéphane monot · Posté le: 31/03/2016 06:16 Sujet du message:

Hello,

bocorvin · Posté le: 31/03/2016 07:31 Sujet du message:

Merci a tous, pour tous les compliments! Very Happy

My sister will be very pleased too,.
With a bit of luck it will fly on sunday, I'll keep you informed.

Amicalement,
Vincent

DOMINIQUE DIOT · Posté le: 31/03/2016 08:17 Sujet du message:

nickel

Philippe26 · Posté le: 31/03/2016 08:36 Sujet du message:

Hello,
What can I said ? nothing more, It is a superb work.
And the pilot has not only a spirit, he has a soul.....
[amen]

Great job.
Philippe

LEROY · Posté le: 31/03/2016 09:30 Sujet du message:

It is splendid, your pilot is a prowess [clap]

Michel.L

RichardP · Posté le: 31/03/2016 15:21 Sujet du message:

waouh

CHAUSSEBOURG · Posté le: 31/03/2016 15:51 Sujet du message:

Beautiful work! Congratulations and best wishes for the maiden flight!
Pierre

caralp_laurent · Posté le: 31/03/2016 15:59 Sujet du message:

Hi Vincent,
It's awesome, congratulations [amen]

Not that heavy 2.8 kg, rather perfect Wink

Lolo

bocorvin · Posté le: 10/04/2016 21:19 Sujet du message:

Merci a tous pour les commentaires joli!
Sorry I did not reply sooner but I was a bit nervous for the first flight! A lot of people said things as : "how dare you to fly with that thing you put some much time in".
Last week we had reasonable weather so we flew it, all went well, the photo's are OK, but the video didn't work out the way we wanted it.

The pilot is preparing for the first flight, sweating hands maybe?

I like to try a manual start first, put some tape on the fuselage for grip, the fuselage was wet.

Sjoerd giving it a mighty push! She flew without a hitch!

Preparing for the start, Claude is keeping the wings of the tarmac Very Happy

Rob is towing with his Piper, you can see the dolly just right of the white line.

His piper had plenty of power to clear the trees!

She flew beautiful Very Happy

The spoilers need a bit of trimming up.

She landed OK! Very Happy

The photo's were taken by Rob, Adri and Sjoerd.
Hopefully we can make some video's, I let you know.

Vincent

Sed · Posté le: 10/04/2016 22:09 Sujet du message:

Congratulations [clap]

!
Wonderful work, so splendid on the floor and splendid in the sky [amen]

!
I wish you a lot of flights.

VincentB · Posté le: 11/04/2016 03:47 Sujet du message:

Congratulation Vincent for this maiden flight [clap]

he's Claude Moinier on the photo?

stéphane monot · Posté le: 11/04/2016 06:09 Sujet du message:

Félicitations et bons vols [clap]

DOMINIQUE DIOT · Posté le: 11/04/2016 07:41 Sujet du message:

bravo et nombreux vols avec [clap]

Christian · Posté le: 11/04/2016 08:08 Sujet du message:

Christian

CHAUSSEBOURG · Posté le: 11/04/2016 09:37 Sujet du message:

Beautiful in flight! Congratulations
Pierre

LEROY · Posté le: 11/04/2016 10:45 Sujet du message:

Beautiful in flight !! [clap]

Michel.L

bocorvin · Posté le: 11/04/2016 12:40 Sujet du message:

Merci Serge, Vincent, Stéphane, Dominique, Christian, Pierre et Michel pour les compliments! Very Happy

Vincent, you are right, it's Claude Moinier.

Vincent

Anonyme · Serial Posteur Inscrit le: 26 Jan 2006

Lovely sailplane, not large but ideal for many flights all year long on aerotowing or slope ! [clap]

sebastian92 · Posté le: 11/04/2016 14:08 Sujet du message:

MARVELOUS first flight !! [clap]

a very nice building for a long time to fly now !
Next to see a vidéo so ?

Clifton · Posté le: 11/04/2016 19:38 Sujet du message:

Congratulations for this first flight. [clap]

michel · Posté le: 11/04/2016 21:32 Sujet du message:

Vincent .

Michel