Hanriot HD2 1/48 floatplane.

[Louis]

Hello,

 

It will be him:

Or something like that.

I gathered some documents:

Windsock data file # 12 and # 92
"Le Fana de l'aviation" N ° 579

 

Full images of a restored Belgian Hanriot:

 

http://www.theaerodrome.com/forum/showthread.php?t=61062&page=2]http://www.theaerodrome.com/forum/showthread.php?t=61062&page=2

 

Photos (there are also other planes):

 

https://ww2aircraft.net/forum/media/hanriot-hd-2-code-d47-french-navy.27522/]https://ww2aircraft.net/forum/media/hanriot-hd-2-code-d47-french-navy.27522/

The kit shows some oversights:

 

The rear part of the fuselage should be redone to look like this:

 

 

 

 

 

The hatches at the front of the fuselage will probably have to be moved. I can open one of the two.

 

 

The slot under the engine hood must be drilled.

 

The two parts that must be assembled to form the engine hood. To avoid scratching the entire interior in order to refine the entire hood, I copied the small part. Covered with pencil lead, a piece of scotch tape to take the imprint and the scotch tape is glued to a piece of plastic (0.2 mm). Then we drill the holes at the ends and end up cutting all around the imprint. The rounded shape is given by fixing it on a cylindrical support with scotch tape and immersing it all in boiling water. By cooling (with cold water) the part keeps its rounded shape.

 

 

 

 

The cockpit will be redone despite the good work done by Eduard and the inconspicuous once the plane closed.
I have already scraped a lot with the mini drill and the file.

 

 

 

 

Edited April 4, 2020 by Louis
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[Louis]

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Edited April 4, 2020 by Louis

[Louis]

I opened the hood on the left side.

So you have to scrape and sand the inside, for a long time, and reduce the thickness to the maximum, trying not to destroy everything inside because it may be seen.

The door is cut out.

A very thin plate is cut and drilled to put inside and reduce the opening of the hatch.

The goal is to do something like that.

It took me a long time to decide where to put it. There are lots of versions and the vintage photos of the seaplane used by our navy (The french one)  are not numerous and often of poor quality. I hope I have looked at my photos ...

The interior of the cockpit is under construction.
The vertical uprights have a "profiled" shape. I cut them in a 1mm wide plastic strip with the scalpel blade and the file.

Above the horizontal upright is a rod with a square section of 0.8 mm side. It is also re-cut to fit it into the corner of the fuselage.
More or less like this:

I closed on the left. I have refined the walls too much and they have been drilled.

I finished the opening with the frame cut from a plastic sheet, the thinnest from "evergreen" (0.1mm?).
Difficult to set up in the fuselage.

The adjustment will be made with the file

Inside, the wall around the opening will remain as it is, ie ugly, it should not be seen.

The silhouette of the wooden upright visible through the opening is complicated to grasp.

So I drew the opening on paper and then made a sketch from the photo. The map available in Windsock does not match the photos.

A piece of tape (the mat which does not stick too much) is placed on it to make several impressions necessary for the four pieces.

The holes and the openings are drilled before the part is cut.

Finally we glue a pierced part on a not pierced part:

[Louis]

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Edited April 4, 2020 by Louis

[Louis]

The internal structure is almost complete.
I had the bad idea to stick the right part in the fuselage and to start my assembly from there.

The square rods are 0.5mm x 0.5mm.

Part of the engine needs to be done:

I used this montage and the descriptions found on the net:

http://www.master194.com/forum/viewtopic.php

https://issuu.com/chestnuts/docs/clerget-blin_9b]
https://www.aerovfr.com/2016/05/retroconception-pour-un-clerget- 9b

https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k9810818g/f72.image.r=Le Clerget 9B?rk=107296;4]

The two magnetos in black (a little too low).

Two new tanks:

Does anyone know where the big horizontal copper pipe goes under the spring?
The spring seems to be connected to the throttle by rods.

It remains to bring everything in.

[Louis]

The wooden support is put in place after installing the cables. Two up, two down and one running along the support.

 

 

Once everything is closed, you hardly see anything. It's dark there like in an oven ...

 

 

And in the cockpit it's the same.

 

That's all is stuck in the fuselage, more or less well.

 

The copper pipes a little big.

 

 

The little aluminum thing connected by a spring to the dashboard.

 

 

It was necessary to lengthen on each side the air intake pipe of the carburetor which crosses the passenger compartment right through:

 

 

The throttle that comes from the box is far too large and is a little near the dashboard.

 

 

I redid the white dial and its big cable which is just below so that it looks like the pictures on the dashboard (I only know that of the planes saved at the Hendon museum).

Also redo a few rods on the throttle side and under the dashboard as well as a raised floor to hide the misery.

 

 

It's still just as dark ... except with the cell phone lamp directly in the hole (of the fuselage ...).
I had redone the lifter, I applied myself but we do not see it at all. Same thing for the small oil tank behind the dashboard.
The boards to put the feet I redone are more apart than the original and the spreader of the box was no longer large enough.

 

 

If I summarize, the only parts visible and that it is possibly interesting to redo are the structure of the cabin and the cables, the gas handle (which I have not redone), the white dial and the copper pipes on the left side of the passenger compartment. For the rest it is not worth it.

Okay ... well, I'm going to close the fuselage and start the engine.

 

Regards!

 

[Louis]

I redo the floats in 0.5mm plastic.

 

Those of Eduard are ugly, false and too long.
On the photo I had already cut the front to try to recover them.
And I'm not even showing you seen from above ...

 

I had made two photos of HD2 floats:

 

 

 

Regards

 

 

 

[pheonix]

This is an excellent and very detailed account of what you are doing. With all odf that interior work being covered up have you not thought about leaving some side panels off to allow people to see what you have done?

 

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[RichieW]

I'm a bit late joining this one, it's looking like it will be an absolute stunner. A lot of skills on show already, will be following along very keenly from here.

 

Excellent stuff!

[Courageous]

Great stuff. Keep it up.

 

Stuart

[John Masters]

Great work so far.  Love the floats.

[Louis]

Hello !

 

The floats are almost finished.

I hesitate to redo the fuselage stop which is completely round on my kit while it is probably faceted ...

 

 

 

 

 

 

Before cutting the back I took a loan with a pencil and tape and I made a back.
On the back of the room I made grooves in the evergreen plastic with the back of a blade. Then we fold.

 

 

Left 1st try, plastic too thin. Right, second try with 0.2mm.
More rigid is better but at the first drop of glue grooves have melted and the glue has dispersed on the surface.

 

 

 

4th test (the third has disappeared on the workbench ...). As the folding does not allow it to keep its shape, I taped it on a conical tool handle and passed to boiling water to give it the right shape. It's better.

The circular arc piece is glued to the front to give it its shape.

 

I proceeded to amputation, leaving the front of L’arête to put a metal piece on it. The plastic part will be slid underneath.

 

The transplant remains to be successful ...
Seen from above we can see that the sides of the ridge (in contact with the fuselage) are rounded. I have not yet figured out how to make them straight.
I tried to stick a trapezoid "cover" on the inside but it didn't hold. The ciano is not effective, and the other adhesives damage the room.

 

 

 

finally I fixed two guides in dymo tape to serve as guides and support the sides of the piece above.
The part therefore enters "forcefully" between the guides.
Before placing it I filled it with epoxy glue so that it flows inside and sticks the piece to the fuselage. I also put some along the zone to stick not believing too much in my idea of "dripping".

At the same time I hope that by hardening it maintains a little the shape of the part.

 

 

 

Obviously I kept everything in place by hand for 15 minutes while praying.

It almost worked ...

The bonding was not done everywhere and I started to stick to the superglue.

 

 

I have the right side to fix.

 

... and putty everything.

 

Regards.

 

Edited April 7, 2020 by Louis

[Louis]

Hello,

 

I still haven't finished chewing ...

The plate that covers the back is being manufactured:

The form is taken with transparent tape.

The plate is cut from a plate of edible aluminum (connoisseurs will no doubt recognize a pie dish here). The aluminum is smoothed with the handle of a brush on a glass plate and sanded with 1000 paper so that there are no scratches or marks in it.

The leather protection around the entrance of the passenger compartment has been sanded in the area in contact with the dorsal edge to avoid having to make a rounding in the aluminum (and because it is like that in real life also by chance).

I will do it again later.

Eduard seems to have been inspired by this plane to engrave the top of the fuselage (blue arrow).

 

 

 

 

But for the moment I can't find any image with this small riveted plate which is perhaps only a contemporary reinforcement and that's good! ... because it will be easier.

 

 

 

 

 

I'm going to drill the hole to fill up ...

 

Regards

Edited April 10, 2020 by Louis

[Louis]

I think I made a mistake.

 

Does anyone see my plate behind the cockpit?

 

Regards.

[Marklo]

7 hours ago, Louis said:

 

Does anyone see my plate behind the cockpit?

Such is modelling. I put the canopy on my Stuka on Wednesday pleased with the fit and ready to prime until I noticed the mg still on the bench grrr...

[Louis]

If someone has a picture of the plane with a plaque ...

Eduard puts one, WIndsock also in his plans.

According to windsock, there is a US version which has no plate. Finally, this is what has been noted and drawn in the plans of the book ...

 

Has French aviation used this version ???

I have so few photos ...

 

Regards

[pheonix]

If you have very little information, then others probably have not got much either. In which case who is to say that you are wrong. One of the problems of modelling these early aircraft is the lack of clear information on many features - so we just use "modellers license" or best guess.

 

P

[Louis]

Hello,

 

I preserve "modellers license" for later.

 

 

 

Thank you Peck for the pictures.

 

After many hesitations this is the goal:

 

In red it will disappear.
In green to engrave.
In blue probably in aluminum tape.
Plus rivets, nails etc.

One of our colleagues suggests that the tank behind the pilot could have been removed to maintain the aircraft's center of gravity in the right place when it has been fitted with large floats.
He made a scratch in 1/32 to see here: shock::

https: //forum.largescaleplanes.com/index.php? / topic / 81122-hanriot-hd2-scratchbuild /

I redid my back, longer.

 

And I removed the protection that I had put to protect the opening ... the top melted, the front was deformed.
It was just a piece of plastic and tamiya tape. I had put a Surfacer veil on the front of the fuselage. He may have attacked very fine plastic.

 

 

After an evening of work, a night of reflection and full of Evergreen and tests. I try a transplant starting with the deepest and going up to the surface. Three layers of plastic.
The hole above and the wall are consolidated from the inside with Super Glue.

 

 

 

 

 

Re-cut hole and grafted part:

 

 

To putty.

 

Regards.

Edited April 19, 2020 by Louis

[pheonix]

Some tricky restoration work there but you have made a first class job of it.

 

P

[RichieW]

Great fix, very impressed by your patience and perseverance.

[Louis]

Thank you!

 

The missing slot in the hood is drilled and sanded with a file. It is missing either on the HD1 or the HD2. Please note it is not always centered. Its position depends on the model.
The angle between the two pieces of scotch tape: 55 ° ...
The slit may be a little thin yet?

 

 

 

The rear part of the slots was glued, puttyed and sanded.

 

 

 

[Clerget 9B / Z 130 / 110hp (Small Stuff):

approx. 110 pieces ...

 

 

Note if you mount these engines, take the time to observe them with a magnifying glass so as not to break the small parts which are molded on the cylinders for example. What I did not do, of course.
I broke half of the small hooks which are at the top of the cylinders. There are two per cylinder, I often only have one.
Fortunately this should not be seen.

It remains to be checked whether, once fully assembled, it will fit under the hood.

 

 

 

Regards.

[pheonix]

Those slots in the cowling are very impressive. Small Stuff engines are very detailed indeed - but getting them to fit under kit cowlings can sometimes be a real problem!

 

P

[RichieW]

.Zooming in on that engine is scary, so much detail on a 1/48 engine and a higher parts count than most kits. It looks fantastic though, well worth it. I doubt the naked eye would notice the missing hooks even if they weren't hidden under the cowling.

[Louis]

Thank you!

 

Hello!

 

I remade the air intakes of the carburetor (well I think that's it).
They are badly placed on the kit for my version. You have to climb them up a bit.

At the end it should look like this:

 

 

 

 

There are apparently several more or less elongated versions. We do not see well on vintage photos most of the time.
I used Eduard's model. I made a copy of it with transparent tape and powder pencil lead.
I pierced both ends with a 1.1mm cookie cutter for the big one, 0.7mm for the small one. Then cut between the two holes with a new blade and sand.

 

The tools :

 

 

Drilled and sanded:

 

Then cut around as close as possible with the razor blade following the model. Rounding is done with a file.

It is not very difficult to do but it is very small.

 

 

An aluminum tube is made in a piece of aluminum tray. I found nothing else to do them during this period of confinement. The hardest part is not losing the coins. Cotton swab or a real aluminum tube would have been simpler I think.

 

The tube seems to be "higher" in its rear part than in its front part. Perhaps so that the air enters more easily.

 

 

Regards.

[Louis]

Hello!

 

The engine is finally finished. It's very small but everything comes together without the need for adjustment. Fortunately...
75 pieces + 18 spark plug wires (not very useful after all).
It is weathered with engine grease oil paint. It is less yellow in reality.

The copper tubes are painted with Alclad paint, the bent part is weathered with a little dark gray ink (Faber Castell pen) and with dark blue and black pastels. All tapped with Prince Auguste brown ink to make it shine a little. I am happy with the result but from the front we do not see them.

Regards