...sends greetings from central Indiana. My name is Duane and I have been lurking around this forum for the past few weeks gathering protocol info. I found the link to this forum while doing power plant research. In a short time it became obvious this site is the real deal, knowledgeable and civilized. Just shortly after my 49th birthday (5 months ago) I realized the big 5-0 is knocking on the door and I am running real short on "somedays" so if I'm going to build the darn thing now is the time. I'm a production designer by trade and I have finally settled down off the road enough to start a long-term building project. I've built a version of most things with wheels (motorcycles, cars, farm equipment, etc) but this will be my first project that's suppose to leave the ground on purpose.
I'm working on a scaled warbird. It is an 82% Stuka-G tank-buster. I couldn't find any kits and I'm not much of a kit person anyway so I've been working on the design myself in AutoCAD. My son is a systems engineer for General Dynamics in the satellite area and he and some of his aircraft development buddies are willing to double check Dad's math so I think I've got some significant "smoking hole" prevention in place and I hope to do right by Mr. Junkers design. The design as it stands now will be of wood/composite a la the WAR Replica construction mode. I"ve been building scenic elements out of those materials for years and very comfortable with the techniques. Besides I don"t want to take on the learning curve of an English Wheel. I look forward to picking the brains around here. Cheers!
Duane
Ps. To you recent younger newbies whose intros I just read. Stick with it; you'll be amazed how quickly you can spend your "somedays", LOL!!!
I'm working on a scaled warbird. It is an 82% Stuka-G tank-buster. I couldn't find any kits and I'm not much of a kit person anyway so I've been working on the design myself in AutoCAD. My son is a systems engineer for General Dynamics in the satellite area and he and some of his aircraft development buddies are willing to double check Dad's math so I think I've got some significant "smoking hole" prevention in place and I hope to do right by Mr. Junkers design. The design as it stands now will be of wood/composite a la the WAR Replica construction mode. I"ve been building scenic elements out of those materials for years and very comfortable with the techniques. Besides I don"t want to take on the learning curve of an English Wheel. I look forward to picking the brains around here. Cheers!
Duane
Ps. To you recent younger newbies whose intros I just read. Stick with it; you'll be amazed how quickly you can spend your "somedays", LOL!!!
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