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| SteveM | Dumas Kit #1815,DeHavilland DH89 Dragon Rapide | Build | 22-Mar-10 21:48 |  | | Views : 1015 | | Making the tail feather outlines. I elected to make the bowing forms out of a lamination of 1/8" and 1/16" balsa sheet. It would have been easier to use some 3/8" thick by 6" wide sheet I had, but I couldn't bear to carve it up when I had a pile of low quality balsa from Tower Hobbies on hand. Notice I had plenty of broken sticks. |
| SteveM | Molt Models Hellcat | Reference | 14-Feb-10 10:11 |  | | Views : 9196 | | So far you guys haven't convinced me to move to TX or the east coast. |
| SteveM | Dumas Kit #1815,DeHavilland DH89 Dragon Rapide | Build | 08-Feb-10 15:25 |  | | Views : 1136 | | Thursday night I informed Dumas of the defective engine cowl front on the far right in the picture. They got the replacement cowl here very quickly! |
| SteveM | Dumas Kit #1815,DeHavilland DH89 Dragon Rapide | Reference | 28-Jan-10 17:12 |  | | Views : 1173 | | For Bill |
| SteveM | Dumas Kit #1815,DeHavilland DH89 Dragon Rapide | Build | 27-Jan-10 22:27 |  | | Views : 1094 | | These are the front pieces of the engine nacelles and a few motors for size comparison purposes. |
| SteveM | Molt Models Hellcat | Build | 27-Jan-10 21:42 |  | | Views : 9377 | | A thin coat of Liquitex gray as a primer adds 0.1oz. I think from here I'll jump right into the final colors rather than add another coat of primer. |
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| SteveM | Dumas Kit #1815,DeHavilland DH89 Dragon Rapide | Build | 27-Jan-10 17:21 |  | | Views : 1077 | | The kit includes good quality wood, several plastic pieces, Sullivan cable, aluminum tubing, music wire, styrene rod, 3 sheets of plans, and an instruction booklet. Not pictured is the tissue, peel and stick decals, tail feather patterns, and a bag of miscellaneous hardware such as wheels and string. The bottle of Ambroid Pro-Weld is from the LHS, I got their last bottle. The directions talk about using a CAB cement, but assumes I know what that is. Are we talking about traditional Ambroid liquid cement, Testors wood cement, Sig-Ment, or something else? |
| SteveM | Molt Models Hellcat | Build | 26-Jan-10 22:11 |  | | Views : 9599 | | Pushrods are installed, waiting for the tailfeathers glue to dry, and the elevator to straighten out. |
| SteveM | Molt Models Hellcat | Build | 26-Jan-10 20:09 |  | | Views : 10746 | | The Hellcat is getting a little portly. Recovering the fuselage in silkspan and two layers of thinned nitrate dope on everything added about 0.2 oz., the tailfeather push rods add another 0.2 oz. or so. The only thing missing from this picture is paint. This is the first plane that I have treated with nitrate dope. In fact, it was a mix of 50% nitrate dope, 25% thinner, and 25% retarder. |
| SteveM | Molt Models Hellcat | Build | 18-Jan-10 22:31 |  | | Views : 11098 | | In an earlier photo I show the weight of the uncovered frame without the radio, landing gear, plastics, and a tiny part of the fuselage was 5.6oz. Here we are at 7.73oz. covered in domestic tissue and silkspan with everything except paint and the linkages to the tailfeathers. I wonder what I did with the linkages? I guess AUW will be on the plus side of 8oz. which is on the heavy end of the expect 7-8oz. listed in the instructions. |
| SteveM | Molt Models Hellcat | Build | 17-Jan-10 22:15 |  | | Views : 11273 | | Covering the wing with silkspan (dry with an UHU glue stick) was refreshingly easy and went smoothly. About all that is left is to redo the control surfaces then fortify the fuselage as John C. suggested. |
| SteveM | Molt Models Hellcat | Build | 17-Jan-10 09:33 |  | | Views : 11374 | | Less than an hour of work to replace the Doculam with silkspan while listening to Norm build a drop leaf table. The area you see covered hear is all the further I had got with Doculam and it was painful progress at best. |
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