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Hangar	Aircraft	Category	Date	Preview
biplane guy	Guillows Series 200 - Fokker DR-1 Triplane	Parked	02-May-17 14:14
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aileron controls
LASTWOODSMAN	Herr Engineering HRR 105, Fokker D-7	Parked	02-May-17 10:53
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Since "Discretion is the better part of valour", I thought it would be prudent to carve up a practise prop block, to monkey around with and see how it shapes up first, and learn from those mistakes, instead of wrecking my good laminated prop block right away.
mlriley540	Scratch Built Brewster Buffalo	Build	01-May-17 22:02
Views : 773
Making good progress.
LASTWOODSMAN	Herr Engineering HRR 105, Fokker D-7	Parked	30-Apr-17 20:06
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The laminated Prop Carving Block is freed up from its clamping prison, and squared up to 220 grit sandpaper. The next step is to drill a perpendicular center pin hole, trace some outllines from 0.0035" thick (22 pound) opaque Vellum tracing paper sheets. and transfer the outlines to the block.
heywooood	Todays Hobbies F4-E Phantom II	Parked	30-Apr-17 12:07
Views : 4868
more or less what I was going for..
heywooood	Dumas Kit #401, Laird Super Solution	Parked	29-Apr-17 23:40
Views : 880
some progress on the infill - there are some interesting contours to this fuselage - should be fun in the shaping process

Hangar	Aircraft	Category	Date	Preview
mlriley540	Scratch Built Brewster Buffalo	Build	29-Apr-17 23:26
Views : 823
This is a sturdy model, i think the short tail will allow it to be fairly heavy.
mlriley540	Scratch Built Brewster Buffalo	Build	29-Apr-17 23:25
Views : 783
Going good so far, a fun build.
LASTWOODSMAN	Herr Engineering HRR 105, Fokker D-7	Parked	29-Apr-17 12:03
Views : 717
BACK TO THE DRAWING BOARD !! - I will cut it all out, sand it, glue raw tissue onto the plane, then shrink it and clear it, the normal way - but first, my 10" X 1 1/2" X 1/2" laminated prop carving block is dry after being glued and clamped up for a week - prop carving and sanding fun coming up !!
LASTWOODSMAN	Herr Engineering HRR 105, Fokker D-7	Parked	29-Apr-17 11:57
Views : 630
The pics show how awefully horrendous it looks on the plane. A DISMAL FAILURE ! At least I gave it the "old College effort" .
LASTWOODSMAN	Herr Engineering HRR 105, Fokker D-7	Parked	29-Apr-17 11:54
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After all that work, I glued it on anyway (an exercise in futility), and tried to stretch it out flat, and reshrink it, to no avail.
LASTWOODSMAN	Herr Engineering HRR 105, Fokker D-7	Parked	29-Apr-17 11:50
Views : 670
When I cut the finished tissue out of the jigs after a few days, it shrunk into a homogenious, rippled, shrivelled, and wrinkled "Orange Peel" texture, from not being stretched taught, as it was stretched perfectly taught while in the jigs.

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