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| hjlittman | Guillows Series 300 - Cessna 150 | Parked | 01-Feb-17 18:28 |  | | Views : 1400 | | 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 | Guillows Series 300 - Cessna 150 | Build | 08-Dec-16 14:44 |  | | Views : 1126 | | 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 : 1092 | | 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 : 999 | | 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 : 867 | | 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 : 765 | | 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 |
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| hjlittman | Guillows Series 300 - Cessna 150 | Build | 07-Dec-16 19:25 |  | | Views : 779 | | 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 |
| hjlittman | Guillows Series 300 - Cessna 150 | Build | 28-Jul-15 13:26 |  | | Views : 1190 | | 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! |
| hjlittman | Guillows Series 300 - Cessna 150 | Build | 28-Jul-15 13:24 |  | | Views : 1029 | | Thursday, I started on the removable nose. |
| hjlittman | Guillows Series 300 - Cessna 150 | Build | 28-Jul-15 13:23 |  | | Views : 938 | | Wednesday I built the the wings and tail feathers. |
| hjlittman | Guillows Series 300 - Cessna 150 | Build | 28-Jul-15 13:18 |  | | Views : 1009 | | Monday, I got the basic fuselage framed up and got the stringers on down to the level where you have to install the landing gear wire. On Tuesday I bent the landing gear wire (Giving some amazed onlokers a virtuoso performance, if I do say so myself.), installed it and got the rest of the stringers on. |
| hjlittman | Guillows Series 300 - Cessna 150 | Build | 28-Jul-15 13:14 |  | | Views : 1034 | | Last week, we, again, had our six-year-old grandson with us for Science Camp at the California Science Center in Exposition Park. (His parents got to go to Las Vegas.) I had to drive him past downtown Los Angeles, on weekday mornings, and it made no sense to drop him off, drive home, and drive back to pick him up. As I did last year, I brought my portable building board and sat in the Science Center food court to build a model airplane while waiting for his class to be over, thus making myself a living museum display for about two and one-half hours every morning. This year I started my "G" Challenge entry, a #309, Cessna 150. This is a new, laser cut, kit and since I decided to make it a nearly out-of-the-box build (except for a removable nose, of course) I expected it to go rather quickly despite the fact that people would interrupt me to talk about what I was doing, as they did last year. The interruptions are welcome since it gives me the opportunity to promote the hobby and myself by passing out some business cards. |
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