| Image Comments |
| sweetwillie | 29-Apr-08 22:20 |
| I had it lined perfectyl, with a good looking dihederal, propped it up and went outside to work in the garden. |
| sweetwillie | 29-Apr-08 22:22 |
| I came back inside about 2 hours later, and found that the props had slipped and the dihederal was lost. I think I'll let it go. |
| sweetwillie | 29-Apr-08 22:25 |
| Good looking leg! Huh? |
| Barnstormer | 29-Apr-08 22:39 |
| Still looking good SW, and the airplane too! LOL. Seriously I think you have excelled greatly in your skill with sheeting models. I think this one is going to turn out very nice and with what you have learned, just think what the next will look like. |
| sweetwillie | 29-Apr-08 23:24 |
| Thanks Barny, My next balsa model will probably be a Mig 15,I have a couple of plastics that I want to build first. |
| RodN | 30-Apr-08 01:03 |
| Hey SW, it's nothing a careful cut and break will not fix. If you cut carefully along the join you can re-mount in the correct alignment. This is way too good to give up on now!! |
| sweetwillie | 30-Apr-08 01:45 |
| Rod, I thought about it, but the wings are into the fuselage about 1/8". So I don't know if I can do it. What do you think? |
| RodN | 30-Apr-08 02:21 |
| Cut slowly and only a small amount with each pass and I reckon you've got nothing to lose, worst case some more patching and filling to do later. You have the skills and the patience otherwise you would not have come this far at all eh! |
| John M Oshust | 30-Apr-08 07:49 |
| That is is why I suggested that you peg the wings trhu the fuse. |
| Abby Marie | 30-Apr-08 09:11 |
| Sweetwillie, this is NO time to stop on this bird. Try what RodN suggested. Nothiung venterd, nothing gained. You can do it. |
| JohnG. | 30-Apr-08 09:29 |
| SW....going to Plastic??? Well, if you ever return to balsa, I have another thought for you consideration: construct ALL your parts first and dry fit each BEFORE you go to the covering step...believe you will find this in the simple instruction booklet provided with Guillow 500 Series models. |
| sweetwillie | 30-Apr-08 11:17 |
| John G. I try to build it as you suggested, but, sometimes, I get so caught up in the build, that I get ahead of myself and the plans. Old habits are hard to break. |
