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Guillows Series 1400 - F-16 Fighting Falcon by sweetwillie. Viewed 883 times. Build Thread Next Prev Click image to return. Image Comments sweetwillie 18-Jan-08 17:57 Question: What is wrong with this picture? sweetwillie 18-Jan-08 17:59 Answer: Unless I'm building two of the same bird, then I have two left fuselages, and, for the life of me, I can't figure out how to build a right side. HELP!! SteveM 18-Jan-08 18:26 I guess two lefts don't make a right. The kit directions should have you lay down the keels the glue the left side formers to them like you have in the picture, except I wouldn't put the stringers on till later. Then you remove the left half from your building board and glue on the other halves of the formers to other side of the left half. Then after that you add the side keels and stringers. Check out the fuselage construction on cdwheatly's Hellcat build. You see him build the left side then the close of of the keels and formers all in position. jgood 18-Jan-08 19:30 oops! John M Oshust 18-Jan-08 21:08 Major league BRAIN FART! Solution...print the planes in reverse and build two more sides and two planes...or build one right side off of the left... make two planes and give one away as a present! poppy 19-Jan-08 10:58 This is just another part of the learning curve. Keep at it! The help given on this site is invaluable. sweetwillie 19-Jan-08 13:56 Boy Poppy, you're right, I've learned an enormous amount of tricks of the trade from this site. It's invaluable to me as a source of knowledge. Thank you James Good for it. But, I keep having trouble with balsa, I just bought a bundle of 10 Towr 1305 Balsa that is 1/16X3 X30" from Tower Hobbies, and I'm very unhappy with it. sweetwillie 19-Jan-08 14:04 When I ordered it, I specified that I wanted the stiffest balsa that they had, she told me that this was very stiff. But when I got it, it was way too limber. I called Tower and they told me that it was the stiffest that they had in balsa, that the next stiffest was spruce. ( I didn't believe them but relented anyway and told them that I would try it and see, well, I tried it and I was right, it's way too limber for these old fingers. I've got 9 1/2 sheets left, does anyone have any stiffer balsa that they'd like to trade? I'ts good quality balsa, it's ideal for flying models and peanut scale. I, also have a plank of balsa that I bought from Amazon that I thought was in sheets, but when it arrived, it was a plank 6 1/4 X 5/8 X 24", how can I get it made into sheets? As you guys can see, I'm a dummy that needs a lot of help. JohnG. 19-Jan-08 14:22 You have just joined the old,fat,stubby and shakey finger guys here. Suggest you give basswood a try...it's sturdier. Many on this site use...Luck!!!! sweetwillie 19-Jan-08 14:32 John, I asked them at Tower, and they said it wasn't any stiffer. (I just don't believe them) Do you? Where do you buy your balsa? I live at the edge of the world, and the closest source of balsa is 200 miles away. So I have to buy everything online. John M Oshust 19-Jan-08 14:38 I get my bass and balsa mostly at Pearls, an art suppy hobby and craft store. You can pick your own wooden pieces. Pearls sells a lot on material for doll house construction. sweetwillie 19-Jan-08 15:05 What' their web address, I tried to Google Pearl's art supply and Pearl's hobbies and couldn't find them? SteveM 19-Jan-08 16:00 I also tried out some of the balsa sheet from Tower Hobbies, I got what I paid for. Now days I go to my LHS and hand pick from SIG and Bud Nosen balsa to get just what I need for a particular project. But not having a LHS means you can't pick your balsa so you need to buy from somewhere that does it for you. I have not tried Basswood, but per sheet a 24" length of basswood costs about the same as a 36" length of balsa. Not too much of a premium if it won't snap on you. Check out SIG and navigate to "Building Equipment" -> "wood". In the balsa sheet section you will find "C Grain" and "Very Hard". The C-Grain will be very hard and stiff but will break if you bend it too much. Maybe the "very hard" stuff would be closer to what you need. They also have a selection of basswood that you can try out (the basswood is in packs of 2 sheets). Please sign in to comment on this image.