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| sweetwillie | Guillows Series 1400 - F-16 Fighting Falcon | Parked | 18-Jan-08 17:57 |  | | Views : 800 | | Question: What is wrong with this picture? |
| sweetwillie | Guillows Series 1400 - F-16 Fighting Falcon | Parked | 09-Jan-08 16:24 |  | | Views : 735 | | Just wanted to brag a bit, I caught this beauty at Lake Amistad while wade fishing. She was 11 1/2 lbs and 24 1/2 \" long with a girth of 20". It was a fight that I've relived a hundred times and counting. |
| sweetwillie | Dave Diels Engineering, Inc Kit #1, Boeing F4B-2 | Parked | 09-Jan-08 01:09 |  | | Views : 1180 | | I didn't beef up the upper wing, i hope I'm nopt sorry, It's not going to fly anyway. I've already got my red chevron painted on, Next, I'll mask it off and airbrush the yellow on. Stay tuned!! |
| sweetwillie | Dave Diels Engineering, Inc Kit #1, Boeing F4B-2 | Parked | 09-Jan-08 00:55 |  | | Views : 1218 | | The fuselage is a little twisted, and I had to beef up the front end to accept a motor. |
| sweetwillie | Dave Diels Engineering, Inc Kit #1, Boeing F4B-2 | Parked | 09-Jan-08 00:46 |  | | Views : 1189 | | I can't get the cabane struts the right length. I had them once, but being a novice, I didn't read the plans right, the struts have e legs like the wing struts. The wing struts are made from popsicle sticks. After seeing John O's radial work, it has ins |
| sweetwillie | Dave Diels Engineering, Inc Kit #1, Boeing F4B-2 | Parked | 09-Jan-08 00:35 |  | | Views : 1160 | | This is actually, a Golden Age F4B, the whole plane is too light and flimsy for my old fingers,I used up my allotment of 1/16 stringers on the fuselage because they kept breaking in my hands. I got some more balsa from Short's Basement and decided to beef |
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| sweetwillie | Guillows Series 900 - Skyraider | Parked | 08-Jan-08 23:06 |  | | Views : 1358 | | I tried to wash some exhaust onto the fuselage, but, you can see the results. I've got a lot to learn, and nothing but time on my hands. It a good thing that I have a photographic memory---------it's my |
| sweetwillie | Guillows Series 1400 - F-16 Fighting Falcon | Parked | 08-Jan-08 22:40 |  | | Views : 813 | | This is the second model in 40+ years, I covered it three times before I was happy with it. I'm building it in VA-176 if I can find a 1/32 decal of the bumble bee with his stinger turning into a Lightning bolt. Any on got any ideas, Also, I'm looking for |
| sweetwillie | Guillows Series 1400 - F-16 Fighting Falcon | Parked | 08-Jan-08 21:55 |  | | Views : 900 | | I drew these feathers in with a paint Pen, I'll have to get a steadier hand, or use some sort of straightedge. The blue has about 6 coats of paint, and you can still see the white through it. I think that next time, i'll figure out how to cover it so I do |
| sweetwillie | Guillows Series 1400 - F-16 Fighting Falcon | Parked | 08-Jan-08 21:48 |  | | Views : 840 | | I'll try again." The red is brushed on it's Rust-O-Leum Painters Touch Apple Red, it's acrylic and flows good when thinned with water, and clean ups a snap.The blue is Krylon's Gloss True Blue by Color Creations, it has some Rust-O-Leum Gloss Black acryli |
| sweetwillie | Guillows Series 1400 - F-16 Fighting Falcon | Parked | 08-Jan-08 21:39 |  | | Views : 1023 | | Whoops! I accicentally hit the space bar on that last pic. As I was saying, it has about 6 coats of Rust-O-Leum Gloss White enamel that was airbrushed on. |
| sweetwillie | Guillows Series 1400 - F-16 Fighting Falcon | Parked | 08-Jan-08 21:27 |  | | Views : 984 | | This is the first stick model that I had built in over 40 years, this is the third time that I've covered it and it has about 6 coats of |
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