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| heywooood, Comment for image # 40306 | 11 Jun 18 17:08 |
| I alternated between fitting the rear half inside of the front half...down at the legs and again near the top of the body. Then liquid cement to melt the seam and putty to round the edges of it, with CYA adhesive overall along the entire seam to seal it. |
| Skyediamonds1985, Comment for image # 40306 | 11 Jun 18 16:39 |
| I agree with Heywoood. For the life of me, they seldom, if ever, matched. Just be prepared for plenty of filler.
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| heywooood, Comment for image # 40306 | 11 Jun 18 13:54 |
| or discarded because they couldn't be.. |
| David Duckett, Comment for image # 40306 | 11 Jun 18 11:56 |
| I wonder how many of those two pieces, with the balsa top, have been glued together? |
| heywooood, Image # 40306 | 11 Jun 18 11:11 |
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| heywooood, Comment for image # 40305 | 11 Jun 18 10:46 |
| basic working Continental crankcase. I have also made the cylinders more robust, thicker and taller, more to scale to my eye..once all the plumbing is done I guess we'll see how it all looks. Still some sanding and cleaning up to do here. |
| heywooood, Image # 40305 | 11 Jun 18 10:43 |
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| Don C, Comment for image # 40304 | 10 Jun 18 21:25 |
| I remember this stage from my Stearman. You made a good choice. Off to Minnesota to check out the mosquito supply. Looking forward to seeing this when I get back. |
| John M Oshust, Comment for image # 40304 | 10 Jun 18 17:15 |
| Sweet slice and dice! |
| heywooood, Comment for image # 40304 | 10 Jun 18 15:09 |
| nipple-ectomy completed...let the games begin |
| heywooood, Image # 40304 | 10 Jun 18 15:08 |
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| heywooood, Comment for image # 40296 | 09 Jun 18 14:42 |
| You guys are the best. I’m just going to set and think on what I’m going to do at this point. I have the images of everyones builds here and like all the various approaches taken so far. I just have to sort out what I’m going to do.
I definitely appreciate the offers of reference materials and suggestions!
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| biplane guy, Comment for image # 40296 | 09 Jun 18 09:49 |
| I modded the Continental radial on my Stearman build as well. Pics are in my hangar. Also there are extensive cockpit and instrument panel pics if you should decide to detail your cockpits. |
| heywooood, Comment for image # 40296 | 08 Jun 18 22:43 |
| I might just do that here...I've got the cylinders - all I need to do is carve a crankcase out of balsa block and I can make a better Continental block than this in my sleep probably. I just dont know if I want to commit the time to do it. |
| heywooood, Comment for image # 40296 | 08 Jun 18 22:39 |
| I appreciate the offer - thank you...at this point I am still working out the front end and will likely 'go skinny' on the panel and 'pits as a result of whatever happens up front. The other Stearmans I built were the Herr Eng. and the Sterling crop duster. Next time I will either make the part with balsa or slice off the ridiculous nipple on this thing and just use the big ring that goes to the fuselage #1 former- live and learn |
| Skyediamonds1985, Comment for image # 40296 | 08 Jun 18 21:10 |
| Heywoood, check out my previous posts on this PT-17. I scratched out the radial engine but only the cylinders. I kept the original plastic crankcase. The infilling looks great! You're going a fantastic job! It looks as though those two colored pictures are of two separate aircraft, judging from the tail #'s and all. I still have all my original drawings of the instruments which I used to take photos and reduce them to scale. If you're interested, let me know. |
| heywooood, Comment for image # 40296 | 08 Jun 18 13:15 |
| I'll be making some modifications to this kit going forward, including around the nose and power plant...not sure how they came up with this configuration for the plastic nose/crankcase but We'll make do. Meantime - look at the Oreo's I made lol.
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| heywooood, Image # 40296 | 08 Jun 18 13:09 |
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| heywooood, Comment for image # 40256 | 05 Jun 18 21:31 |
| This is the look I will be trying to replicate...with an empty front seat, but as close to this as I can get. |
| heywooood, Comment for image # 39684 | 29 May 18 10:38 |
| yes please!
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