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| scigs30, Image # 38790 | 05 Jun 17 23:33 | 
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| scigs30, Image # 38789 | 05 Jun 17 23:33 | 
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| scigs30, Image # 38788 | 05 Jun 17 23:32 | 
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| scigs30, Image # 38787 | 05 Jun 17 23:32 | 
I had off today so I was able to finish my Piper Cub. I first sprayed with Aerogloss Cub yellow dope thinned 50/50 using my airbrush from the 80's. On Badgers website under "Garage sale" these are going for 5 bucks each :D For my plastic models I use an Aztec airbrush. The Badger 250 is easy to use and clean works great with harsh dope paint. As you can see not really scale for a Piper J3 but a nice vintage any way. I built it per the plans with no modifications and used everything in the kit. The weight with the heavy wheels is 69 grams, without heavy wheels 57 grams. The only other 1 1/4 wheels I have is wood Comet wheels bringing the weight to 64grams. Balanced with clay she weighs 83 grams with Sterling wheels and 78 grams with Comet wheels. I will probably use the Sterling wheels for the test glides tomorrow. The kit decals were old so I sprayed with a coat of Testors Gloss Cote before using. All and all the decals went on pretty smooth for being older decals. I still have a large stash of old kits, don't really want to sell them so I should just keep building. Originally I thought I would build these old kits for electric RC or freeflight, but that would take too much work and I will never get through my stash. I am not a collector, just like building and my hope is to build them all someday. |
| David Duckett, Comment for image # 38758 | 04 Jun 17 19:42 | | http://brodak.com/finishing-products/dope/brodak-paint-4oz.html Brodak makes dope, thinners, and light and medium weights of silkspan. The medium weight is just about the same as the old K&S heavy grade silkspan. The thinners from SIG will work quite well with Aerogloss. |
| mlriley540, Comment for image # 38758 | 04 Jun 17 15:48 | | One of Mike Brady's many talents... |
| scigs30, Image # 38765 | 04 Jun 17 15:08 | 
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| scigs30, Image # 38764 | 04 Jun 17 15:08 | 
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| scigs30, Image # 38763 | 04 Jun 17 15:08 | 
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| scigs30, Image # 38762 | 04 Jun 17 15:08 | 
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| scigs30, Image # 38761 | 04 Jun 17 15:08 | 
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| scigs30, Image # 38760 | 04 Jun 17 15:07 | 
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| scigs30, Image # 38759 | 04 Jun 17 15:07 | 
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| scigs30, Image # 38758 | 04 Jun 17 15:07 | 
Here she is all covered and doped thinking about adding Cub Yellow. This was covered with the light weight Silkspan that came with the kit, a little yellowed but cleared up after brushing on 2 coats of thinned dope. I am using the last of my Aerogloss dope for this project, my favorite dope that is no longer being made. I was hoping some other company would have bought the Aerogloss line, but that never happened. I have enough colored Aerogloss dope but not enough thinner, I have heard that Sig thinner works with Aerogloss so I will have to weight and see. I really like the look of doped silkspan and was thinking about leaving it white, but it is a Cub so I think tomorrow I am going to airbrush the Aerogloss Cub yellow on. I have always liked silkpsan, super easy to use and strong and really does not add much weight. I know a lot of modeler who used to use it for small freeflight models with complex curved structures since this stuff goes on great when wet. I don't think K&S makes silkspan any longer, but Sig and Guillows still sells the lite stuff. I also know people who use it on the nose blocks since regular tissue can be tricky. When I first started building, I really struggled with applying Guillows and comet tissue to my builds, remember we did not have YouTube or internet back in the day to learn from. My first good covering job came from a Sterling kit with Silkspan, I covered it just like the plans stated except I used Elmers glue to attach the silkspan, for me back then it came out nice. Of course I ended up screwing it up by trying to paint the plane with colored dope and a Testors paint brush. Covering with wet light weight silkspan is how I learned how to cover with wet Esaki and Domestic tissue, of course there was a larger learning curve with the tissues. I apply the silkspan the same today as I did back in the day, brushing on thinned Elmers glue, wetting the tissue with a water bottle then stretching the covering on. If the silkspan lifts, I re wet the area of silkspan and reapply nice and tight. I have never tried applying dried silkspan, but I am sure it would work fine. The covering and 2 coats of thinned dope added 6 grams to my previous weights. Hopefully I will get around the airbrushing tomorrow and finishing in the next week. |
| scigs30, Comment for image # 38740 | 04 Jun 17 10:59 | | Here is the episode where the dad and kids are building this kit.
[url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2xV4zA6A8E[/url] |
| scigs30, Image # 38753 | 04 Jun 17 10:58 | 
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| scigs30, Image # 38752 | 04 Jun 17 10:58 | 
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