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| Skyediamonds1985 | Guillows Series 200 - SE5a | Build | 11-Apr-16 22:27 |  | | Views : 387 | | Adjusting for engine clearance and exhaust plumbing |
| Skyediamonds1985 | Guillows Series 200 - SE5a | Build | 11-Apr-16 22:26 |  | | Views : 346 | | Making a template. |
| Skyediamonds1985 | Guillows Series 200 - SE5a | Build | 11-Apr-16 22:26 |  | | Views : 342 | | Right side view of the real aircraft. Trying to emulate the large paneling surrounding the engine. |
| Skyediamonds1985 | Guillows Series 200 - SE5a | Build | 29-Mar-16 22:50 |  | | Views : 366 | | About to add the British insignia. The Guillow's kit's roundels are too large and not to scale for this model. I'm going to have to carefully cutout the roundel right at the fine line. Most customized decals are generated from a computerized printer which only produces the image on paper. Therefore, the paper itself has the carrier film spread all over the sheet and each image must be cut out on it's own. Large letters and numbers shown in my previous postings, will each have to be cut out. I'm going to have them resized as they're too large for this fuselage. John Brantley does a good job at producing customized images, but needs to know the exact dimensions and letter fonts, logos, insignias and so forth. i |
| Skyediamonds1985 | Guillows Series 200 - SE5a | Build | 29-Mar-16 22:39 |  | | Views : 410 | | Applying custom decals before the rest of the stitching. A word about customized decals.... These three stripes are blank decal sheets with white color background. They were then cut into thin strips and the white colored background was allowed to slide off. |
| Skyediamonds1985 | Guillows Series 200 - SE5a | Build | 29-Mar-16 22:37 |  | | Views : 398 | | Starting the long road on stitching. |
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| Skyediamonds1985 | Guillows Series 200 - SE5a | Parked | 29-Mar-16 22:35 |  | | Views : 345 | | Close up of one of the thin metal tapes in brass. |
| Skyediamonds1985 | Guillows Series 200 - SE5a | Parked | 29-Mar-16 22:34 |  | | Views : 363 | | Very thin (I think 1/64") metal foil tape in and chrome. Almost anyone can obtain black chart tape, but not in metal finish. Again, at the specialty hair and nail stores |
| Skyediamonds1985 | Guillows Series 200 - SE5a | Parked | 29-Mar-16 22:27 |  | | Views : 368 | | Very small and fine tweezers for $5.00 at the hair and nail specialty store. |
| Skyediamonds1985 | Guillows Series 200 - SE5a | Parked | 29-Mar-16 22:24 |  | | Views : 327 | | Small cutters (dice). Only five bucks at the nail and hair specialty shop. |
| Skyediamonds1985 | Guillows Series 200 - SE5a | Parked | 29-Mar-16 22:23 |  | | Views : 364 | | Got some news to share with everyone. I use a ball point pen as my "riveter" by lightly punching on the back of glossy paper (or thin plastic sheeting) and allowing the small "bump" or rivet to show through on the top side. Went through a specialty shop for hair and nail products (Okay guys, its my wife's favorite place) and discovered a couple of small ball ends. My wife says they're used for decorating nails with dots of nail polish. I placed them next to the pen to give you some reference. |
| Skyediamonds1985 | Guillows Series 200 - SE5a | Build | 21-Mar-16 20:13 |  | | Views : 466 | | End result. Looks the same as the stitching using the needle technique as seen above, but kind of "outside the box" thinking. This is going to be a long process, but hoping the end results will be worth it. Isn't that why we all build in the first place? |
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