Potez 58

There were a lot of details to reproduce on the engine hood. Apart from the structural lines that I had already made, I reproduced the rivets last night. Long work…

I continued working on my engine hood with the closing system. To do this, I took the piano hinge to which, I removed the axle and I blew up a…

After finishing the doors, I start the mockup details of the front part of the Potez 58. Below is an enlarged photo of the front part with the engine access…

After having cut the doors (see my previous posts) on the sides of the fuselage, I now had to provide an opening and closing fixing system.I used the mini piano…

Everything is said in the title. I started by tracing the doors on the fuselage. Then cut with dremel. Straight lines were cut with a disc. The curved parts were…

I finished wrapping the different faces of the fuselage. As a reminder, I put a layer of nitrocellulose coating, followed by a light sanding to remove the wood fibers and…

I started finishing the fuselage in September.I used a 25 g per square meter of glass fiber bonded to the nitrocellulose coating.The fuselage is sanded to rectify as much as…

I also continued my work on the seats with the upper surface of the stabilizer and the junction with the fin.As you can see in the photo below, there is…

The wing has a Clark Y profile and is therefore flat on the lower surface, so no worries for the seat.On the other hand the profile of the stab is…

For the finishing of the wheel fairings, I used a detailed enlargement of an old photo of the size which allowed me to see that I have to redraw the…