| Hangar |
Aircraft |
Category |
Date |
Preview |
| Huey V77 | Scratch Built Gee Bee Model "Y" | Parked | 31-Mar-17 11:50 |  |
| Views : 333 |
| Here's the cowl, not happy with the rocker cover blisters, have some work on them. Also have to make an engine and prop. |
| Huey V77 | Scratch Built Gee Bee Model "Y" | Parked | 31-Mar-17 11:40 |  |
| Views : 340 |
| Been messing with this the last couple of nights. Mixed Radome Tan and gloss White to get the base color. Amazingly the tissue tightened up. Some "Puckers" are still there. Don, on full scale using the "Dope" system, you apply two cross coats of nitrate to the fabric. nitra incapselates the fiber. Then you apply up to 4 coate of silver. Silver is butyrate mixed with aulminum power to block out UV light. Then you apply clear butyrate to fill the weave of the fabric. then several color coate. The last plane I did is a Aeronca Champ with 16 coats of dope. It looks beautifull, yet you can till see the weave. My Stinson model has two coats of nitrate and two coats of butyrate on silcspan. I heald its shape when paint was applied. |
| Huey V77 | Scratch Built Gee Bee Model "Y" | Parked | 27-Mar-17 18:27 |  |
| Views : 403 |
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| Huey V77 | Scratch Built Gee Bee Model "Y" | Parked | 27-Mar-17 18:27 |  |
| Views : 367 |
| Using Radome Tan for base color, closest I can find to the origonal colors. |
| Huey V77 | Scratch Built Gee Bee Model "Y" | Parked | 27-Mar-17 18:25 |  |
| Views : 343 |
| Wrinkels where there were none.... |
| Huey V77 | Scratch Built Gee Bee Model "Y" | Parked | 27-Mar-17 18:24 |  |
| Views : 376 |
| Tryed some color, this stuff sucks! Using acrylic paint this stuff wrinkels and doesn't shrink back. Should have gone with Nitrate! Tempted to tare it off and start over. Nasty learning curve... |
