repairing Nemere scale 1:6

[bocorvin]

Bonjour a tous,

Last weekend we had a tow meeting in Kampen
https://www.modelbouwforum.nl/threads/sleepmeeting-21-september-2019-bij-mvc-cumulus-kampen.266377/page-3
We had a magnificent day and the Fokker FG-2 and the Nemere made a lot of very nice flights.
With the first flight the Nemere refused to uncouple, so it made some hefty moves before I could fly it home with the tow line dangling at its nose. The Nemere has a carbon wingjoiner and I forgot the warnings of Philippe (Clifton) about carbon wingjoiners, so I didn't check. A couple of flights later I steered quite badly and I had to uncouple at 200m. Imediately after the uncoupling both wings came loose, taking the horizontaql stabilizers also off. The fuselage went down like an arrow and I thought; thats the end of the Nemere. We (some collegues helped) started to collect the stuff, it was a windy day and the grass was high, so it was difficult to find the remains. First we found the fuselage and to my disbelief, only the cockpitpart was demolished, the tail was in perfect order
It took a couple of ours and then we had collected both wings, stabilizers.


I started to clean up




I had to make two new frames, laminated from strips of 0.6mm ply





using the same techniques as in the original building


I repaired the stingers with scarfed joints





replaced the nose section, using the keelbeam as reference






I glued the interior back in, puzzled how I made it a couple of years ago






Glued new panels on the uotside




I use fineer for the covering of the nose






Next is the staining of the ply and the cockpit, I still have the mold

To be continued,

Vincent

[de Schaetzen Harold]

Dear Vincent,

Your repair job is as good as your constructions skill.
It will probably be stronger then your original construction. And nobody will see the difference.

By the way you had beautiful pictures from your camera.

I wish a god repair.
Harold

[Johannes]

Schade, Vincent das deine Nemere kaput gegangen ist
Ich finde es aber sehr schön das du das tolle Flugzeug
wieder aufbaust


Liebe Grrüße aus dem Südwesten
Johannes

(Komisch Es geht nur Güße oder Grrüße , ein R will er nicht )

[bocorvin]

Dear Harold,

Thanks for your nice comments .
Clifton warned for the carbon wingjoiners, I didn't checked it, pity.
I'll make a different wingjoiner, carbon tube with steel as safety or massive steel (thats very unforgiven with hard landings), so I still doubt.

Danke Johannes fur die aufbauende worte .
Wir haben anderhalb stunde nach die letzet Flugel gesucht, wenn wir die nicht gefunden hatte, . Glucklich war nur die rumpfnase zerstort, nach ein fall von 200m, Ich war erstaunt.

Ich habe Niederlandische wie heist das "spellingscontrole" gibts andere probleme.

LG,
Vincent