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| Creosotewind | Scratch Built Solid Models | Parked | 14-Jun-14 19:35 |  | | Views : 852 | | No room on the couch (davenport) to sit down. You can bet I did not walk through the house with it assembled. I could barely handle the 3' wingspan of the Piper Cub without hitting something. Good thing I'm not a pilot. |
| Creosotewind | Scratch Built Solid Models | Parked | 14-Jun-14 19:33 |  | | Views : 977 | | The parts of the plane under several layers of Bondo, primer and final paint. |
| Creosotewind | Scratch Built Solid Models | Parked | 14-Jun-14 19:32 |  | | Views : 910 | | Great stuff for adhering clear parts. I think it is the same stuff that watchmakers use to attach crystals. I bought it at a hobby store. |
| Creosotewind | Scratch Built Solid Models | Parked | 14-Jun-14 19:31 |  | | Views : 915 | | The basic structure is from the model. I cut out the small windows and filled them with clear plastic, probably from some of those packages that are impossible to open without a nuclear device. I made the reflector from mirror paper from the art store. It took a while to figure out the shape, but it seems to look ok. The base is from that PVC box I cut apart. The slots slide over the wooden frame in the fuselage. |
| Creosotewind | Scratch Built Solid Models | Parked | 14-Jun-14 19:27 |  | | Views : 818 | | Back to the camera. |
| Creosotewind | Scratch Built Solid Models | Parked | 14-Jun-14 19:27 |  | | Views : 836 | | Paint for the rocket rails. Access panels are card stock (again). I tried using aluminum tape, but it was too thin and didn't show well under the paint. |
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| Creosotewind | Scratch Built Solid Models | Parked | 14-Jun-14 19:25 |  | | Views : 841 | | For a first effort it was ok, a noble try. But compared to Ted's work, it paled in comparison. |
| Creosotewind | Scratch Built Solid Models | Parked | 14-Jun-14 19:24 |  | | Views : 857 | | ...and filled the voids with florist's foam. Cut and sanded to get the shape I wanted. Then I filled with light spackle, sealed with primer and then painted. |
| Creosotewind | Scratch Built Solid Models | Parked | 14-Jun-14 19:22 |  | | Views : 899 | | The model didn't come with a tail cone. I tried to find something off the shelf, but no luck. I asked Freeway Flyer (Ted) if he could make one on his lathe (what modeler on this site has he not assisted?) In the interim, I tried something new for me, that I found on a paper modeler's site. |
| Creosotewind | Scratch Built Solid Models | Parked | 14-Jun-14 15:38 |  | | Views : 879 | | The platforms with the missile rails. The one on top is attached to the hardpoiint stand, and has two blank rods for missiles. |
| Creosotewind | Scratch Built Solid Models | Parked | 14-Jun-14 15:37 |  | | Views : 902 | | Start of the missle platform. One rough and the other starting the shaping. |
| JohnG. | Guillows Series 500 - Hawker Hurricane | Build | 14-Jun-14 07:13 |  | | Views : 3522 | | LG and MG's |
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