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| Skyediamonds1985 | Guillows Series 200 - SE5a | Build | 12-Nov-15 21:22 |  | | Views : 381 | | Problem with the sticky paper was that after threading the Solartex film, when I tried to pull it off, the threads came apart. Only option was to try to simply leave the threads and covering on the paper and glue to whole thing to the fuselage. |
| Skyediamonds1985 | Guillows Series 200 - SE5a | Build | 12-Nov-15 21:19 |  | | Views : 409 | | Here is a really good example of what was happening as I tried to loop the needle back through the paper and covering. You can easily see how the previous threads were pulled apart and distorted. So, I figured the next best thing would be to use sticky paper to help hold things down. |
| Skyediamonds1985 | Guillows Series 200 - SE5a | Build | 12-Nov-15 20:50 |  | | Views : 411 | | I initially laid out some strips of Solartex on a piece of paper and tried to stitch them together. Thinking that I could simply glue on the results to the fuselage. As it turned out, each time I threaded the needle, the covering would move around or the thread would distort and stretch. If you zoom up, you can easily see the inconsistency of the stitching. |
| Skyediamonds1985 | Guillows Series 200 - SE5a | Build | 12-Nov-15 20:45 |  | | Views : 466 | | Well, to make a long story of my trials and tribulations short, I think I've got it. This stitching was done on my "faux" sample fuselage to practice my craft. I encourage you to zoom up and you can see the slight imperfections as a result of my learning. I'll show you just a couple of extra pictures of some of my mistakes that finally led up to where I am now. |
| Skyediamonds1985 | Guillows Series 200 - SE5a | Build | 12-Nov-15 20:38 |  | | Views : 460 | | In my last "installment" I left it where I managed to have the fuselage constructed and covered in a manner to resemble the real aircraft's horizontal split by the pronounced stitching |
| Skyediamonds1985 | Guillows Series 200 - SE5a | Build | 04-Nov-15 21:32 |  | | Views : 495 | | One final experiment, was the matching of olive drab color of the Solartex with spray paint from a can. Since I live in a small apartment, I don't have the room (Read that, luxury) of having an air gun with compressor. I was very happy to note that between Model Masters and Tamiya, Tamiya # TS-28 olive drab matches the Solartex beautifully. This means that I can add metal paneling around the engine area using plastic sheets (or glossy paper) and simply spray Tamiya's olive drab for a perfect match. That's it for now. It'll be a couple of days for me to work on the model. |
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| Skyediamonds1985 | Guillows Series 200 - SE5a | Build | 04-Nov-15 21:25 |  | | Views : 583 | | Yes. It appears to have worked. Among several prominent features of the S.E. 5, besides the radiator and top wing-mounted machine gun, was the fuselage stitching. Instead of simply adding cross stitching to the model, I thought it might be kind of cool to actually simulate the upper and lower halves of the fuselage and link the two with stitching, as you can see from the drawing of the real aircraft in the background. |
| Skyediamonds1985 | Guillows Series 200 - SE5a | Build | 04-Nov-15 21:21 |  | | Views : 473 | | After covering the sheet balsa, I then glued it to the lower half of the "faux fuselage" for final view of my desire to simulate the fuselage on the real aircraft |
| Skyediamonds1985 | Guillows Series 200 - SE5a | Build | 04-Nov-15 21:19 |  | | Views : 499 | | I gave my 1/16" sheet cut balsa one last check for fit before covering |
| Skyediamonds1985 | Guillows Series 200 - SE5a | Build | 04-Nov-15 21:16 |  | | Views : 474 | | I then trimmed away some of the excess off the ends. Not bad, eh? |
| Skyediamonds1985 | Guillows Series 200 - SE5a | Build | 04-Nov-15 21:13 |  | | Views : 432 | | This is the very first time I've ever used heat-shrink covering. In this case, at the advice of Meku, I used Solartex which has a very fine weave pattern and it comes in various colors. I chose olive drab. So this will help explain, in part, why I chose to fabricte a "faux fuselage" to practice my covering techniques. Its one thinkg to watch dozens of videos on "How to's" but it's another to actually do it myself. |
| Skyediamonds1985 | Guillows Series 200 - SE5a | Build | 04-Nov-15 21:08 |  | | Views : 512 | | I decided to laminate the last two 1/16" strips of balsa to give it added strength to account for any covering shrinkage |
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