Barry's Stinson SM 6000B Trimotor *FINISHED*

[splash]

very impressive work.

[AndrewR]

This is looking good. Curtains for the windows?

[Barry]

The mice are in the back room sewing away madly even as we speak.

[vacant]

The windows have worked a treat.

[Zee28]

Obviously, I wouldn't swear on the forum, but if a could it'd be elongated by a lot of extra 'U' in the middle. I'm with Paul and his emoticon, this looks scary!

Barry you are a hero and legend for tackling this, admiration is not a strong enough word......

[Barry]

Passenger cabin done. I've now decided against curtains as they don't seem to have been used by the commercial carriers at this time. Sorry Andrew.




Cockpit done except for control wheels.

[AndrewR]

Passenger cabin done. I've now decided against curtains as they don't seem to have been used by the commercial carriers at this time. Sorry Andrew.

Oh the humanity!

Looks fantastic, even without the drapery.

[PaulBradley]

Looks terrific, Barry - most impressed so far.

[SJPONeill]

That's looking really good...

[lancfan]

Very impressive work Barry.

David.

[Barry]

So...This is how I approached the problem of the windscreen:

The plan was to affix the center section first and then the outboard pieces in turn.




To get the shape of the outside pieces, stretch tape over the opening and use a pencil to mark along the sharp edges of the existing pieces. This didn't work very well for some reason...the resulting shapes were all over sized
and had to be carved/filed down.





Nevertheless, this was the process....







In the end, the sequential installation plan didn't work for me either. I wound up removing the center section and gluing it to both the outer pieces to form sort of a fan-like piece which i could 'fold' along the still soft join lines. With a little more trim-fit-trim-fit etc. the thing finally fit. (more or less)





After some filler in the seams, I have this:





This is stretched sprue, lightly sanded, representing ribs on the tail planes.




On the under side, just scribed lines.




Tail attached. Next the tail planes, then the wings, then all that struttery suspending the engines in the proper location under the wings.

[PaulBradley]

Neat!!

[lancfan]

Nicely done.

David.

[splash]

I admire people like you who have the skill and patience to work with stretched sprue it's a skill I have never acquire.

Regards Splash

[Barry]

Stretching sprue?....heat it to a soft saggyness over a candle and pull smoothly . If it pulls apart, it was heated too much...try again. Some sprue doesn't work well. Try a different manufacturer.