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| hjlittman | Guillows Series 300 - Piper Cub 95 | Build | 28-Oct-11 12:54 |  | | Views : 829 | | Frames being covered, wet, with Esaki tissue. The color scheme is right off the box cover. The bottom of the fuselage is covered with blue tissue. The blue side flashes will be added, dry, as trim after the fuselage has it's first Krylon misting. The blue tissue would turn green with the yellow under it if applied wet. Then the fuselage will get another Krylon misting. Yes, the struts are covered with tissue. |
| hjlittman | Guillows Series 300 - Piper Cub 95 | Build | 23-Oct-11 00:05 |  | | Views : 736 | | The basic sanding is done and after the cowl key and magnets I will be able to start the covering process. There are a couple of other changes from stock...I added the wing locating pins, like my Beaver and Porter designs, to keep the incidence correct and a real tailwheel instead of the wooden cutout. |
| hjlittman | Comet Kit #3204 - North American P-51A | Parked | 22-Oct-11 17:03 |  | | Views : 1132 | | Comet P-51A temporarily occupying a space on ceiling while Piper takes priority. |
| hjlittman | Guillows Series 300 - Piper Cub 95 | Build | 22-Oct-11 17:01 |  | | Views : 624 | | Front of former B1 and back of former at rear of cowl (B0..my designation) are covered with 1/64" plywood. Rare earth magnets will hold cowl on and provide needed ballast. |
| hjlittman | Guillows Series 300 - Piper Cub 95 | Build | 22-Oct-11 12:08 |  | | Views : 674 | | Straight out of the box build except for the removable nose and colored tissue covering. |
| hjlittman | Guillows Series 300 - Piper Cub 95 | Build | 22-Oct-11 11:44 |  | | Views : 687 | | Finally got it on the board |
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| hjlittman | Comet Kit #3204 - North American P-51A | Reference | 13-Sep-11 15:36 |  | | Views : 1089 | | Southern California sunset. There is a reason that painted backdrops in Hollywood movies look like this. |
| hjlittman | Trillium Balsa LC004 Citabria | Parked | 06-Sep-11 17:08 |  | | Views : 1340 | | You ever have one of those conversations that starts with "What if you...", or "I wonder what would happen if..."? Well, this is the result of one of those conversations, a tailless (well, elevatorless) model made of a foam picnic plate. Yes, it does fly! It.was a complete b**** to trim, but flies better than the improved Citabria. |
| hjlittman | Comet Kit #3204 - North American P-51A | Build | 06-Sep-11 16:57 |  | | Views : 1182 | | Mustang is putting on weight. Plastic spinner is from another Mustang kit to the same approximate scale. I will make a lighter plastic for flying. Still needs control surface outlines on wings and exhaust stacks. Trying to keep it under 30 grams with rubber. |
| hjlittman | Trillium Balsa LC004 Citabria | Parked | 06-Sep-11 16:51 |  | | Views : 988 | | Modified for "white prop". New prop is much lighter so required another rebalance. This time weight in nose. Still weighs 17 grams. Needed a 1/32" shaft for new prop so I drilled 1/8" hole in Guillow's thrust button and slipped Peck thrust button in hole. Works fine. |
| hjlittman | Comet Kit #3204 - North American P-51A | Build | 30-Aug-11 14:48 |  | | Views : 1167 | | Well, I got the wing recovered, but I'm still having trouble with the metallized tissue. I have other projects to attend to and this is not for competition, so I amd going to try a heat gun on the wrinkles, declare it done, and finish it. I'[m sure it will fly OK anyway. |
| hjlittman | Trillium Balsa LC004 Citabria | Build | 25-Aug-11 19:29 |  | | Views : 892 | | Citabria on the balance rig for rebalance after a small change.. |
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