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Skyediamonds1985Guillows Series 900 - P-51 MustangBuild08-Jun-18 08:43
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Skyediamonds1985Guillows Series 900 - P-51 MustangBuild08-Jun-18 08:41
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Not exactly a sharp image, but wanted to show that I trimmed away much of the longeron around the cockpit area. It's my intent, to try the "drop box" method of installing the cockpit.
Skyediamonds1985Guillows Series 900 - P-51 MustangBuild08-Jun-18 08:33
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The build commences. Finally getting to cut and glue wood. It's been awhile.....
Skyediamonds1985Guillows Series 900 - P-51 MustangReference08-Jun-18 08:32
Views : 1948
Another "slight" difference was how the belly scoop faired into the lower fuselage. The Guillow's shows a rather sharp curve ending into the lower belly, whereas the 3-views shows a more modest blending. I'm going with the 3-views. Shouldn't be too hard to handle.... I hope
Skyediamonds1985Guillows Series 900 - P-51 MustangReference08-Jun-18 08:29
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As seen from my previous post, the vertical tails are nearly exact in overall dimensions
Skyediamonds1985Guillows Series 900 - P-51 MustangReference08-Jun-18 08:28
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Surprisingly, the vertical tails match perfectly...
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Skyediamonds1985Guillows Series 900 - P-51 MustangReference08-Jun-18 08:27
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The differences become more apparent. Since it's my intentions to both infill and over-plank the fuselage, I decided not to enlarge most of the formers. Instead, the planking and the added thickness with compensate for me (or so the theory goes).
Skyediamonds1985Guillows Series 900 - P-51 MustangReference08-Jun-18 08:25
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Delving a bit deeper revealed just s slight difference. As will be seen on the next post.
Skyediamonds1985Guillows Series 900 - P-51 MustangReference08-Jun-18 08:24
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I enlarged a set of 3-views to scale and was surprised to find that Guillow's fuselage matches the 3-views fairly close
Don CComet Douglas A-26 InvaderBuild07-Jun-18 13:49
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Finished and ready to motorize.
Skyediamonds1985Guillows Series 400 - P-51 MustangBuild07-Jun-18 01:05
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Hey, not too bad, eh? I tried a combination of small panels, butt panels, overlapping panels, single and double rivet patterns. All came out really nice. Total application time for all of the small section panels and rivets, about 15 minutes.
Skyediamonds1985Guillows Series 400 - P-51 MustangBuild07-Jun-18 01:03
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This time I purchased a set of "pounce wheels" from MicroMark to be used to reproduce rivets on the backside for the rivet patterns to be seen on the front side. I only needed to run down the pounce wheel along a straight edge. No mind-numbing tapping of the hammer over tens of thousands of faux rivets.
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