Hello !
As promised, and as title says, during the last month my father and me have made a wooden First World War propeller, a german one from the brand Axial. I'm sure you have seen it thousand of times in our Dr.1s and D.VII !
Well, it is not 1/1 scale, because it is 2,6 meters!!
So we decided to make a smaller scale, but that it had an important size (43 centimeter). Then, the other problem was researching for the plans, but after looking on specialized pages I found one. Also photographies were very important, I remember one that appears Werner Voss and his Dr.1.
Finally, we made a 'first try' with pine-tree wood (on the left), and then the final model (on the right) with walnut and oak wood, like real ones.
Ended project photos:
I forgot to say I have alittle 1/6th scale figure collection, and I made a pilot with loose parts
Here you have links of propeller, if someone is interested
http://www.holzpropeller.de/index_english.htm ---> Very Useful Plans, pics ... Also how to make your own Dr.1
http://www.woodenpropeller.com/ ---> Cool galllery of every propeller used by any country during 1WW
Well that's all folks
Cheers
Alberto
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Topic: Housemade Axial Propeller (Read 1443 times)
