N Gauger's Scratchbuild '09 Summer Challenge

[ngauger]

Ok - here are Proto & Model views        

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and the point of the tunnel where the air is split (To the left) the wall of foamboard is where the fence is on the prototype

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Testing the bricks I Printed bricks from an online pic.

[Spitfire]

Looking good Mikey!!!

Val

[Lester Perry]

wow or maybe bow wow would be better

[ngauger]

LOL Les - that's Wiley E. Coyote - My forman hehehe

[ngauger]

Ok - the floors are being painted... The roofs are started "Fitting pieces together"

Just to give a comparison between the picture and the building

[nachoman]

Looking quite interesting...

[Lester Perry]

Oh yeah, It is really beginning to take shape now.

[ngauger]

More work on fan

I had to design a "Center support for the fan, since the framwork would not hold the weight of the blades if i built it all out of balsa.

The support frame is foam, but there's more below

[ngauger]

backup for "foam support" an Erector Set beam - screwed into the foam and holding up the axel of the fan

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Now - to build the blades..... 1 down - 9 more to go!!

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and - then attach said blade to fan support

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Now go back up and look again at the first set of pics... You'll see the fan support, with blade attached - and the erector set beam behiond the "foam' beam

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[ngauger]

Some more progress pics - i had to actually use a toggle bolt to hold 2 pieces together to glue them This thing is way too big