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hi guys, im looking for pictures of the interior of a Smith Miniplane Homebuilt. i already tried google a.net and 1000planepictures.com any help is appreciated...

thnx

http://www.airbum.com/pireps/PirepMiniplane.html

http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.rcbuzzard.com/images/smith003.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.rcbuzzard.com/rene.html&h=426&w=545&sz=117&tbnid=e1zKeMsAAHB5VM:&tbnh=101&tbnw=130&hl=en&start=3&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dsmith%2Bmini%2Bplane%26svnum%3D10%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26sa%3DN

http://www.contactmagazine.com/Classifieds/SmithMiniPlane.html

http://www.skyclassic.net/sky_disk/Fuselagex.html

You may have seen some of these....There aint' a whole lot goin' on in the cockpit.

http://richard.ferriere.free.fr/3vues/miniplane.jpg

Jeff

thnx a lot man! the last link is what i am using for 3-views, and the first like is all the info ive had so far...ive never seenthe otherones u posted, theyr great! thnx a lot!

You might want to look at your "Cowl" before you go to much further.
http://www.airliners.net/open.file/0415976/L/
I know it's picture of a Pitts.....But the "Smith minplane" is related to the Pitts!

yeah i kno, the cowl is really pissing me off i re-do it every flippin daya nd it still looks wrong

Post a wire frame?
Maybe it's just a matter of moving some points and vertices'.


Jeff

Did this real quick with splines.
Think of it as a sheet of aluminum bent a little to go around the engine.



Jeff

hi jeff,

its roughly 2am and i came back home not too long ago from an ealry st patty's day celebration (ironic thing is, im not irish...free beer to haha) this is what i managed to do... i used the cross sectionof a pitt's cowling and shaped my tube accordingly, then i re-shaed the tube so it would match the miniplane's cowling using the pitts template...sorry if i dont make much sense its just that this cowling business is really bothering me haha

here are some pix of what it looks like now... i will work on it some more tomorow if time allows



comments welcome...

EDIT: forgot to add the pix