| Hangar |
Aircraft |
Category |
Date |
Preview |
| hjlittman | Easy Built Heinkel 112 | Build | 10-Feb-11 10:37 |  |
| Views : 3004 |
| Heinkle re-do. The original wing ribs were so "punky" that shrinking the tissue compressed them into "S" curves giving warps that could not be steamed out. The model was unflyable. There were some other weakness in the fuselags, part because of the soft wood and part because of the design, even after I added some reinforcement. I tore the coveing off and did some re-engineering with stronger wood. The model is now going back together, warp free, and stronger, but seems. from weighing the components, to have only gained a couple of grams. Weather premitting, flight tests next week. |
| hjlittman | Guillows Series 300 - DeHavilland Beaver | Parked | 05-Feb-11 16:26 |  |
| Views : 2810 |
| Licence number belongs to an actual Beaver in the UK but it is ex-military and is currently in storage awaiting restoration. Maybe they will paint it like the model? |
| hjlittman | Scratch Built Gloster E28/39 | Parked | 05-Feb-11 16:24 |  |
| Views : 2757 |
| "Green" Beaver finished. |
| hjlittman | Scratch Built Gloster E28/39 | Build | 05-Feb-11 16:22 |  |
| Views : 2651 |
| Even the small details are tissue. These scoops were carved from balsa, sealed with water based Flecto Verithane, covered with wet tissue and Uhu glue stick and sprayed with Krylon on this simple fixture. |
| hjlittman | Scratch Built Gloster E28/39 | Build | 05-Feb-11 16:20 |  |
| Views : 2857 |
| Another Beaver prototype. This one is an all tissue job too. Trying to meet target design weight with a decorated model. |
| hjlittman | Scratch Built Gloster E28/39 | Build | 05-Feb-11 16:17 |  |
| Views : 2691 |
| L-20/U6A Version of Beaver. Covered with metallized tissue. Paint and ink do not stick to metallized tissue so all markings have to be glued on tissue. |
