Henschel HS-132 - Diagrams Available!

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Enjoy!

- Eric

Henschel HS-132 - ALL DONE!

Some finishing touches...the BOMB.

 

Lots of fiddly pieces...  The the bars on the fins were a bit of a pain to assemble.

 

Bomb done! 
Now it's time to put all the parts together.

All done!

Now I'll need to write some assembly instructions.  Once done, I'll release this model, then start on my new one!

Henschel HS-132 - Part 23

Here's my update for this weekend:

The landing gears!  Lots of fiddly parts.  I had to go really slow on these.

After the glue dried, I finally got to attach them to the main body of the plane.

And finally, the HS-132 can now stand on its own three legs. :)
Good thing I haven't attached the engines yet.  I've already put in three medium sized computer screws in the nose.  But it's still turning out to be a tail sitter.  With the fuselage cavity still open, I can still attach more weight.

Henschel HS-132 - Part 22

Tails done!

 

I was a bit worried about the rudder because there was no other way to design it other than to to have the open edges facing forward.    Thankfully, they turned out pretty well. 



 

Here's a shot with the wings, elevators and rudders finally assembled.

Bottom shot showing the wheel wells.

Finally, a shot with the engine fitted.  The only things remaing are the landing gears and the SC500 bomb. 

Henschel HS-132 - Part 21

Time to put some wings on this plane!

 

I'm VERY happy with how the wings turned out.  In my previous designs, I always relied on using separate parts for making the wingtips.  This time, I carefully worked with the quirks of Metaseq to produce a 1 piece wing.  (Or rather... treat the whole wing as the wingtip..hehe)

 

I also made use of a stubby set of wing formers.





 The wings fit the fuselage really well!   

Here's a shot with the Engine and Wings dry fitted to the fuselage.  I'll resist the temptation of gluing them on until I've finished the tail part.
But that will have to wait till next weekend. :(

Henschel HS-132 - Part 20

I finally got to finish assembling the parts for the BMW003 jet engine.
Lots of small fiddly parts made this component kinda hard to make.
But with some patience, it worked out quite well.

The shot above shows the engine dry fitted to the fuselage.  Fits quite nicely!
But I won't glue it yet.    I may need to use the hole on the fuselage later on to make sure the wings are aligned. 

Henschel HS-132 - Part 19

The smokestacks from the Eric Flugzeugwerk factory begins billowing out black smokes.
Construction of the HS-132 has begun!

I start with the fuselage.

First the problems.  In the picture above, you'll see an open part in the fuselage.  I had a lot of problems when I wrapped the fuselage segment around the former before attaching it to the main fuselage.  I had to reprint the ruined parts.
I had better success by first attaching the fuselage segments to the main fuselage, and then inserting the fuselage formers after.

The front wheel well spans across one fuselage former.  It was a bit difficult to assemble that one as well.
Surprisingly, the gun ports were easy to make.

 Fuselage done!  No texture alignment problems. :)

 Next up, the BMW003 engines.