Slingsby Gull scale 1/4

[bocorvin]

Merci Philippe et oui j'aime cette planeur aussi .
Je travaille maintenant a l'interieur, mais il n'y a pas beaucoup d'information, helas.

Vincent (DB)

[bocorvin]

Bonjour a tous,

Some time ago I had already made the head, ( see page 7), helped by a nice tutorial https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WlPYWe2bGUo


from super sculpey. Its is made round a clump of aluminium foil on a wooden peg, which I later removed. I started painting it with acrylics, shortly after that my wife took it over ( I was quite pleased).

This close it looks a bit exagerated, but I think a model needs that to look realistic. In the meantime I made a pair of sunglasses from hard brass wire, with glasses of an old polaroid one. I also made hands from super sculpey, reinforced with a copper wire (mains electric wire)






The copper wire slides in a hole in the arm and glued with PVA
My sister Hans had finished the clothing, it fitted nicely, even his trousers were ironed



His head is fixed on a wooden dowel, glued with PU in his hollow head

The peg is secured with some velcro in his body, just to get some friction.
The pilot needed a harnass, which I could not buy at the time, so I made one of elastic band, stitched on some leather (again an old wallet) and I used brass bushes which go at servo's. It was toned down with an airbrush. The safety pin was bend and soldered from hard brass wire and some brass strip.







Handle for the spoilers

closure lock of the canopy







release handle for the dolly

leather pouches

hinges for the rudder pedals, made from plasticard, with pins as bolts



en all put together





the middle steel wire with the red ball is the uncoupler. The pilots fits in







and with a closed canopy


With the interior and pilot finished the Gull is now ready to fly, I just have to wait till its possible, just wait and see...

Vincent (DB)

[VincentB]

Bravo Vincent, magnifiques tous ces détails et le modelage de ton pilote est très réussi

[bocorvin]

Merci pour les comments Vincent et Jenny fait la peinture de la pilote

Vincent (DB)

[Claude Moinier]

Prachtig Vincent

[bocorvin]

Dankje Claude, en nu nog vliegen!

Groet, Vincent (DB)

[Johannes]

Hi Vincent,
dein sehr schön gebautes Flugzeug wird duch die tolle Einrichtung
und den schönen Pilot unm noch einiges aufgepeppt - super

Gruß mit der Hoffnung das der Erstflug nicht
zu lange auf sich warten muss

Johannes

[de Schaetzen Harold]

Proficiat. Prachtig. En nu nog vliegen.
Mvg.
Harold

[bocorvin]

Danke Johannes en Harold
Geduld fur die erstflug....

LG, met vriendelijke groet,

Vincent (DB)

[Clifton]

Superbe Vincent, j'adore ton pilote. C'est du beau travail !

[bocorvin]

Merci Philippe pour le pilote .
Le "tutorial" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WlPYWe2bGUo est tres bonne avec des instruction tres claire, malheureusement c'est en Anglais.

Amicalement,

Vincent (DB)

[chantereau michel]

Bonjour Vincent
Bravo l'intérieur est magnifique
tu es un vrai sculpteur, le pilote est super
je te souhaite bon vol
Michel

[bocorvin]

Bonjour Michel,

Merci pour ton comments . Heureusement il y a du progress dans les pilotes!

On attend l'ouverture de site pour voler...

Vincent (DB)

[ManfredNeu]

Hier stimmt einfach alles - Modell, Cockpit und das fliegende Personal. Wunderbar

Dann auf zum Erstflug

Gruß Manfred

[bocorvin]

Hello Manfred,

Danke , und dann die Erstflug, soll leider noch ein bisschen dauern!

Gruss,
Vincent (DB)

[Peter64]

Servus Vincent,
ich gratuliere dir zu diesem Meisterstück . Eine sehr schöne Arbeit .
Liebe Grüße
Peter

[bocorvin]

Peter, danke fur die freundliche Worte

LG
Vincent(DB)

[Fotor]

The Gull has made its first flights today on a beautiful flying day.
Here some photos that my son and I made. Borcuvin will tell the story here soon.

















































































I dare to say it performed flawlessly.
It was a joy to see!

[bocorvin]

Hello everyone,
To start, thanks a lot Raymond and Jasper for all the beautiful pictures, its so nice that I can just fly and I only hear the sound of the shutter and get those pictures later .

Yes the gull had its maiden today, magnificient weather, a nice wind, sun and we could use another part of the field which on which the grass was really short!
Rob towed me steadily with his new Eco Boomster, giving me confidence all the time . Thats very important on moments like this !

The Gull performed without a hitch, the CG was OK, it glided smoothly, even the brakes did more than I expected. Of course I had to get accustomed to this glider, she has a fairly short tailboom, so it took me some time to keep her level all the time.
On some photo's the is flying as a Gull I with struts and on other photo's as a Gull III or "Cantilever Gull" without struts.

It took a long time of , and finally it was very rewarding to see a model of this old glider silently sailing under the clouds. , .

Vincent (DB)

[Fotor]

We also made some video material. Give me a few days to edit it into a nice video.
Stay tuned!

[Sed]

Congratulations ! Magnifique ! Vivement la vidéo !

[Johannes]

Hi Vincent,
auch von mir : Herzlichen Glückwunsch zu diesen toll gebautem
Flugzeug.



LG Johannes

[GARCIA]

Bonjour Vincent, superbe réalisation je te souhaite de nombreux vols avec ce beau planeur

[bocorvin]

Thanks Sed, danke Johannes et merci José

It is always a relief when its flying well, I am feeling .

LG

Vincent (DB)

[Clifton]

Very nice in the sky ! Beautiful !

[Fotor]

Le video du Gull:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGyF4sVfEfQ

[bocorvin]

Thanks very much for that brilliant video Raymond, what a wunderful job .
And not to forget your son Jasper, a great aid!

Vincent (DB)

[Johannes]

Tolles Video
Danke

[ManfredNeu]

Gratulation zum Erstflug , klasse. Das motiviert ungemein. Danke Gruß
Manfred

[GARCIA]

Belle vidéo et surtout un magnifique vol. Félicitations...