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| hjlittman | Guillows Series 300 - Cessna 150 | Build | 08-Dec-16 14:44 |  | | Views : 1124 | | This is as far as I got with it by last night. I should have the time to finish iton Saturday, and maybe fly on Sunday. |
| hjlittman | Guillows Series 300 - Cessna 150 | Build | 07-Dec-16 19:35 |  | | Views : 1090 | | The tissue went on the fuselage, more or less, as intended. Since the real airplane that inspired this had (It was written off in a "hard landing" in 2014.) a bare aluminum fuselage I will spray the fuselage with gloss sliver floral spray. |
| hjlittman | Guillows Series 300 - Cessna 150 | Build | 07-Dec-16 19:32 |  | | Views : 997 | | Now I'm one of those showoffs that likes to wet cover half of a curved fuselage with one piece of tissue. Not easy to do with this one because the landing gear wires are sticking out and the cabin sticks up in the middle. I decided to cover with four pieces, the bottom between the landing gear legs, the sides to the center line and the top of the cabin. |
| hjlittman | Guillows Series 300 - Cessna 150 | Build | 07-Dec-16 19:29 |  | | Views : 866 | | The tops of the wings are also covered with one piece of tissue each, and advantage of covering wet. In this picture the parts are dry and trimmed but the Krylon has not been sprayed on. |
| hjlittman | Guillows Series 300 - Cessna 150 | Build | 07-Dec-16 19:27 |  | | Views : 764 | | I cover the bottoms of the wings first, being careful to use glue on the strut pockets where I will cut the tissue to insert the struts when the model is assembled |
| hjlittman | Guillows Series 300 - Cessna 150 | Build | 07-Dec-16 19:25 |  | | Views : 778 | | Sometimes I have to take a break from designing my own models so I got back to the Cessna 150. Nice thing about a Guillow's kit is that you have a structure strong enough to cover wet. I cover one side, let it dry, trim with sandpaper and cover the other side |
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| hjlittman | HJL Models Bostillation | Build | 15-Nov-16 21:45 |  | | Views : 699 | | All my new box fuelage designs have an almost self-aligning design that uses laser cut parts and some aligning tools that are part of the kit. The evaluation kits that I sent out have gotten good reviews and they are starting to sell. Of course, I really expect things will get interesting when I finally get the P-6E into kit. |
| hjlittman | HJL Models Wright Amount of Wrong | Parked | 15-Nov-16 21:41 |  | | Views : 893 | | Not that I haven't been busy with other designs. This is a biplane Embryo called the Wright Amount of Wrong. After all, who builds biplane Embryos? It will be a little different when it goes into kit. This is the second prototype and had a few kinks. Should be flying the production version just after Thanksgiving. |
| hjlittman | HJL Models Bostillation | Parked | 15-Nov-16 21:37 |  | | Views : 693 | | Last year I designed what I thought looked like a proper Bostillation.Turned out to be so popular that I put it into kit this year. The Irish Jumping Bean will be in kit before the end of the year also. I have another Bostonian design up my sleeve, but I'll surprise you with that. |
| hjlittman | HJL Models Irish Jumping Bean | Parked | 15-Nov-16 21:29 |  | | Views : 580 | | A couple of years ago I designed a Bostonian that I called the Irish Jumping Bean. Because it had threetails people were suggesting that it be called the Bostillation, I thought about it and decided that it didn' |
| hjlittman | Guillows Series 2000 - B-29 Super Fortress | Parked | 05-Nov-15 18:32 |  | | Views : 2214 | | Not a B-29, but I just can't seem to leave these multi-motot No-cals alone. Not quite finished here, motor sticks and landing gear not on for photo. |
| hjlittman | Guillows Series 300 - Cessna 150 | Build | 28-Jul-15 13:26 |  | | Views : 1189 | | Friday, I finished the nose and did most of the general sanding and cleanup for covering. Once I got the components completed it was easy to assemble it, temporarily, with three Scuncii clips so that people could see what it looked like assembled. (I have aluminum tube pins in the wing roots to locate the wings.) The remarks from passers who did not stop to talk were interesting. The little kids said, "I want to do that!" The teenagers said, "Wow! People actually BUILD those things." The adults said. "Wow! People STILL build those things. And, the senior citizens said, "I admire your work." All in all, it was fun. Out grandson had fun with us. His parents got some time to themselves. We enjoyed our grandson even if it does remind us of why we are to old to have kids, and I got this years entry started along with some free advertising. Not a bad week! |
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