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| John M Oshust | ManzanoLaser BAT FK-24 Baboon | Build | 03-Feb-17 16:15 |  | | Views : 822 | | Gumby has slacked off a tad. |
| John M Oshust | ManzanoLaser BAT FK-24 Baboon | Build | 03-Feb-17 14:58 |  | | Views : 854 | | Behind schedule. Only added two more today. Ho Hummm!! |
| John M Oshust | ManzanoLaser BAT FK-24 Baboon | Build | 02-Feb-17 15:23 |  | | Views : 867 | | Unless I cast some parts this valve setup is as close as I am going to get to the valve train. |
| LASTWOODSMAN | Easy Built PD-05 Waco "N" | Parked | 01-Feb-17 22:02 |  | | Views : 3066 | | A famous quote saying, that I read about this plane, that really got to me and left me pondering ... goes as follows "AFTER THE LAST WACO GRACEFULLY FLIES, THE SKY WILL BECOME MERELY AIR." |
| LASTWOODSMAN | Easy Built PD-05 Waco "N" | Parked | 01-Feb-17 21:24 |  | | Views : 3014 | | The spinner came from a "plastic decorative end" of a "Curtain Rod Bracket Set" from Dollarama and weighs 5.0 grams. The side fuse decals were my own design and were made from different colors of Top Flite "Trim Sheets" (Peel 'n Stick). |
| LASTWOODSMAN | Easy Built PD-05 Waco "N" | Parked | 01-Feb-17 21:12 |  | | Views : 3214 | | The color scheme of my "PURPLE WACO", was Violet (upper wings, upper stabilser, and fin/rudder), Cream - a pale tint of Yellow (underside of wings, stab, and fuse), and Lilac - a pale tint of violet (fuselage). The nose cowl and spinner were sprayed gloss "grape". |
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| LASTWOODSMAN | Easy Built PD-05 Waco "N" | Parked | 01-Feb-17 20:54 |  | | Views : 3056 | | The "N" series was produced in 1937 - 1938, and was powered by a Jacobs L-6 air-cooled, 9 cylinder, radial engine, 300 hp, 161 mph. They were reliable, rugged planes. |
| LASTWOODSMAN | Easy Built PD-05 Waco "N" | Parked | 01-Feb-17 20:47 |  | | Views : 3056 | | WACO stands for Weaver Aircraft Company (1919 to 1947), W.A.Co. (WACO - Wah - co , the first syllable pronounced as in wa-ter), one of the founders of the company was barnstorming pilot George E. Weaver. WACO made these closed-in cabin biplanes after 1930 and over the lifetime of the comopany, made over 80 different models, then ceasing production in 1947. |
| LASTWOODSMAN | Easy Built PD-05 Waco "N" | Parked | 01-Feb-17 20:32 |  | | Views : 3005 | | This is the "N" series Cabin Plane, with a fixed tricycle landing gear of "nosewheel" type. This "Golden Age" "sequiplane" is a common variation of a biplane, where the lower wing has not more than 1/2 the surface of the top wing - also called one and one-half wings ( 1 1/2 wings). |
| LASTWOODSMAN | Easy Built PD-05 Waco "N" | Parked | 01-Feb-17 20:24 |  | | Views : 3047 | | WACO "N" Golden Age Sesquiplane, Easy Built laser cut kit #PD05, $35, 25" wing span, scale 1:19, completed March 10, 2015, weight 54 grams. |
| hjlittman | Guillows Series 300 - Cessna 150 | Parked | 01-Feb-17 18:28 |  | | Views : 3411 | | I finally got my Cessna150 together. It's not one of my better efforts, but it's done and it flies. It is a straight out-of-the-box build except for the removable nose and the locating pins for the wings. Now, here is a comment on the quality of the current Guillow's wood...it weighs 48 grams! While not contest material, at that weight (It would be no trouble to get 10 grams out of it.), with that much wing area it is a more than adequate sport flier on four strands of 1/8" tan sport rubber, about 1-1/2 times the hook to peg length. That's quite an improvement over the die-cut days, the last 300 series model I built out-of-the-box weighed 78 grams ready to fly. Don't get me wrong, the old one flew, but not as well as this one. Interestingly enough, with enough ballast in the nose to fly well (8 bb shot) it still doesn't have enough weight in the nose to sit on the nose gear...curious. I had a minor disaster when I used a new paint pen to draw the door outlines on the fuselage. The line bled badly on the floral spray painted tissue. It looked terrible! The paint in the pen is waterproof and I was about to respray the fuselage when it occurred to me that the paint might no be alcohol proof.. Sure enough, 91% alcohol and some Q-tips took the paint right off. Unfortunately, it also took off some of the floral spray leaving a smudged outline where the bad door outline had been. I still had to re-spray the side of the fuselage but I already had markings and windows in place so I had to mask. This is where I first used Frog Tape For Delicate Surfaces. It worked beautifully and did not damage the tissue or painted surfaces at all. I would have normally used air brush frisket, but I had no spray bleeding at all with the Frog Tape. It's something I'll be using from now on. (No, that was simply a tip, not a paid commercial!) Unfortunately, the real Cessna 150 this was modeled after was written off in a hard landing accident a few years back. |
| hjlittman | HJL Models Wright Amount of Wrong | Parked | 31-Jan-17 15:29 |  | | Views : 4313 | | Finally! The production version of the Wright Amount of Wrong Embryo. Available on my web site 02/02/17. Yes, there are Wheel pants in the kit. |
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