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| CPN | Guillows Series 300 - Cessna 170 | Parked | 15-Mar-10 21:12 |  |
| Views : 867 |
| Nice and straight for a change. I need to add red tissue to the top rear of the fuselage and the tips of the stabilizer - and a tailwheel of course. I also need to paint the inside of the red marking on the tail white. |
| CPN | Guillows Series 300 - Cessna 170 | Parked | 15-Mar-10 21:11 |  |
| Views : 938 |
| I spent the better part of an hour trying to find pictures on the internet of C170s painted in what I have come to call "The Guillows Paint Scheme". Believe it or not, I found a few. From viewing the pics, I realized that it is a two color scheme and the rest of the aircraft was polished aluminum. Since polished aluminum is the bare material the plane is made of, I decided it would be appropriate to leave these unpainted areas bare silkspan. |
| CPN | Guillows Series 300 - Cessna 170 | Parked | 15-Mar-10 21:08 |  |
| Views : 971 |
| This kit is the second balsa model I ever built. The first was a Sterling peanut scale Fokker D.VIII that my father had started. I have always loved this kit and this plane. |
| CPN | Guillows Series 500 - FW 190 | Parked | 14-Mar-10 19:03 |  |
| Views : 833 |
| Here is the image I was trying to reproduce. I don't think the Guillows kit is patterned after the A-7, but who knows, it might just be a representative of any of the BMW 801D radial engined variants. Here's the website I found this at: http://www.rlm.at/cont/profil06_e.htm . |
| CPN | Guillows Series 500 - FW 190 | Parked | 14-Mar-10 18:56 |  |
| Views : 969 |
| Here's about the best picture of the finished (except landing gear - we may never get to that) aircraft. The model is extensively thinned out on the inside with alot of extra wood taken out. The camoflage is Model Master Acrylic RLM 74,75,76 airbrushed on. The red for the band and spinner is Testors flat red enamel. The prop and cowling is Testors flat black. The underside of the cowl is Testors flat yellow. The cowl is painted with Design Master white floral spray and the black stripes are vinyl striping cut to shape. The model is covered in silkspan applied with a purple glue stick and the whole darn thing is oversprayed with a thin misting of Testors Dullcote. The Guillows decals had to go the way of the white buffalo, being to bright and sharp for my eye. I peeled them off and then photoopied them onto tissue paper glue sticked onto printer paper. I then cut the "tissuecals" out with and Exacto knife and attached them with a 30/70 white glue / water mix. The numeral "3" is cut out black domestic tissue as is the exhaust area aft of the cowl. |
| CPN | Guillows Series 500 - FW 190 | Parked | 14-Mar-10 18:50 |  |
| Views : 625 |
| Bottom view. I need to add some wheel detail here and some detachable landing gear. The plan is to fly the ship but we'll see... I'm too afraid right now. You can also see that I attached the blisters too far back on the cowl. I think the only way to correct all these mistakes is to build another one. |
