Sopwith Camel Remix
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This is a remix of @xcorwin's excellent Sopwith Camel model https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:2979886, but I can't add…
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This is a remix of @xcorwin's excellent Sopwith Camel model https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:2979886, but I can't add it to his project as a remix because he has "No Derivatives" in his license.
The parts here are all to the same scale as his model, and my Fuse-Z attaches to his Fuse-Y correctly.
NB that these parts are probably unusable for an RC model; the elevators, tailplane, and rudder all print out as solid and consequently are quite heavy. Fuse-Z is modelled as a solid, and needs some infill.
This is a W-I-P... so far I've only published the empennage, but I'm also remixing the front of the fuselage, mainly to allow incorporation of a Clerget 9B engine model. Probably I'll also need to remix the wings, for the same reason as the tailplanes.
The main motivation for this remix was that I'm printing a scaled-down (83% of his) model, and the tailplane and elevators don't print... the internal structure "bleeds through" the skin and leaves holes. Also his model has recesses in the Fuse-Z and a hole in the rudder for (I assume) RC servos and linkages. And I wanted to print a "wooden" tailskid. Along the way, I discovered some Sopwith empennage plans, and his are slightly different. Whilst there, I added control horns to the elevators and rudder.
Edit 8 May 2019: After looking at a real Sopwith Camel, I now see that the curved turtledeck from behind the cockpit only extends as far as the front of the tailplane, so Fuse-Z and the fin will need to be redone.
Print Settings
Printer:
Zonestar D810
Rafts:
No
Supports:
No
Resolution:
0.2 or better
Infill:
5%
Filament:
Chinese cheapo PLA, but any material should be OK
White and "Army Green"
Notes:
Print rudder and elevators standing on their hinge edge. Print tailplane standing on inboard edge, rudder on bottom edge, Fuse-Z on front face. Elevators are symmetric, so just print two the same.
The square alignment holes that match to Fuse-Y are really too close to the edge of Fuse-Z if you print this scaled down as I did. After I printed this, I realised that the holes could be moved inboard by a couple of mm, and matching "offset" pins printed to align with the original Fuse-Y. If someone intends to print this scaled down, I recommend they do a remix incorporating this.How I Designed This
I designed this by importing the STLs into OnShape.com, which is my preferred CAD package. From there, I "traced" them and created new 3D models using OnShape.
You can see (and copy) my project at https://cad.onshape.com/documents/3f38fed3aaa4533599523efe/w/d5ec5078d7f3f6d5d773f977/e/e34ebbec6474110e3f01ecc7 or by going to OnShape.com and searching Public documents for "Sopwith Camel F.1".
Category: Vehicles