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Model Forum / General / Models / February 2006Trumpeter Chinook and Armored Train Engine Questions
Before I make the dive, does anyone know if the blades on the Chinook fold? otherwise I'm gonna need a wide, wide shelf. and does the engine come with rails for display? thx - Craig The kit instructions don't show a folded blade option for the Chinook. The BR52 comes with rails and a railbed section, like what comes with the DML railcar kits. Dave > Before I make the dive, does anyone know if the blades on the Chinook > fold? otherwise I'm gonna need a wide, wide shelf. > > and does the engine come with rails for display? > > thx - Craig Do Chinook blades even fold? Intentionally? Yes, in either direction. >A direct-action shock absorber is attached to the blade and to the pitch-varying housing. >When the inboard end of the shock absorber is disconnected, the blade can be folded in either >direction about the vertical hinge pin. See http://www.chinook-helicopter.com/standards/areas/blade.html For a very good description of how the entire rotor mechanism works, including detailed sketches. >Do Chinook blades even fold? Intentionally? Dave, Any info on the rail scale. I believe one of the Trumpeter Rail guns was scaled to 1/32 on the rails so it would be able to run on a popular railroad scale which made it incompatable with the Dragon and Iron Works railroad Kits which were 1/35. Val Kraut Val, I've heard that the rail gauge is different between the Trumpeter Leopold and the DML rail kits also, but I don't have any info on whether this is changed in the BR52 kit. If I were them, I would probably might have made it compatible with their own rail kits (Leopold and Karl w/ railcars) so they can be joined together Unfortunately, I don't have any of these Trumpeter kits myself. Dave > Dave, > Any info on the rail scale. I believe one of the Trumpeter Rail guns [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > > Val Kraut > Any info on the rail scale. I believe one of the Trumpeter Rail > guns was scaled to 1/32 on the rails so it would be able to run on a > popular railroad scale which made it incompatable with the Dragon and Iron > Works railroad Kits which were 1/35. The track gauge error was corrected in their later Karl Morser kit, not sure if the right gauge track and wheels were ever back-incorporated into later Leopold issues. I would expect that the BR52 has the correct track gauge. KL |
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