Scratchbuilt 1/72 scale Pujol Vendome

 (The completed model is here:)
http://wingsofintent.blogspot.com/2013/11/scratchbuilt-172-pujol-vendome-completed.html

The Pujol Vendome is an example of how local industries (in this case Spain’s) started to produce efficient designs, either of their own creation -as it was the case in the then leading countries- or acquiring the rights to fabricate known, proven designs, as it is with this French Vendome.

Pujol, Comabella & Cia. produced in Spain during the mid 10’s a number of these machines and at the same time pioneered the local industry, provided useful know-how, and gave the opportunity to pilots and personnel to be trained and be familiarized with this then incipient mean of transportation.

In the lines of the contemporary conventional arrangement, the Spanish Vendome used an 80hp Gnome rotary and -instead of ailerons- wing warp control (no, no Star Trek's Warp Speed by any means).

The construction of the model follows too the usual lines of engineering and materials, as can be seen in the accompanying images. 

 The new, multishaft, Dremel chuck is a gift that a friend from Malabamba gave me in his birthday, now that's generosity.:

Finished prop and assembled spoke wheels:

Flying surfaces before fine tunning:

Fuselage sides receive longerons and bulkheads:

Stab and elevator separated:

Bottom of the fuselage closed, metal control horns inserted in rudder and elevator:

 Seats, back fus cover:

 Wood master and vacuformed cowl, front capot::

 Interior painting, prop stained and varnished:

Top fuselage covers in place, wing halves separated:

Painting has began:

The engine cowl is painted aluminum and then varnished, the wood areas of the model are so painted:

Rudder is masked:

 Rudder finished:

Wings are glued to the fuselage:

The Rudder is glued in place. The diagonal bracing of the fuselage bays is in progress:

 Control cables in place, wing rigging in progress:

 Model ready to receive final components: