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| LASTWOODSMAN | SIG Cabinaire | Parked | 02-Jul-17 08:41 |  | | Views : 791 | | 20" Sig Customaire - stab parts are removed and spread out white glued on all mating surfaces and left to dry. |
| LASTWOODSMAN | SIG Cabinaire | Parked | 02-Jul-17 08:38 |  | | Views : 720 | | The actual Stabilizer parts are then removed from the locating blocking up frames. Call me crazy, but there is a soothing, pretty, colored symmetry to all of the round head pins sticking up. Then each individual stab part is now glue-brushed separately on all of their mating surfaces with a white glue:water mixture ratio of about 65 glue and 35 water ratio (65:35), and then left to dry before the second part of double gluing with immediate final assembly I may seem like a lot of extra work, but I like to have fun fiddling around during the build - I build slow - so hopefully when I glue it all together - and the parts do fit right in their place nicely - I will have deep strong bonds. |
| mlriley540 | Peck Polymers De Havilland DH-60 Gipsy Moth | Flying | 01-Jul-17 22:57 |  | | Views : 5055 | | Managed a picture of it's crash flight, a torque loop followed by a big fast arc through the sky and then slamming to the ground on it's nose. Survuved reasonable well for how violent it was, and only 200 winds to produce such speed and violence. |
| mlriley540 | Peck Polymers De Havilland DH-60 Gipsy Moth | Flying | 01-Jul-17 22:56 |  | | Views : 4606 | | Little Mustang flew well despite being gusty. |
| mlriley540 | Guillows Series 500 - Nakijima Rufe | Flying | 01-Jul-17 22:55 |  | | Views : 4307 | | Had a bad camera day, the Zero flew better than it has, didn't get a decent image though. |
| BriandKilby | Guillows Series 800 - Mosquito | Build | 01-Jul-17 07:53 |  | | Views : 938 | | fuselage frame. |
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| mlriley540 | Scratch Built FFVS J 22 | Build | 30-Jun-17 22:57 |  | | Views : 2689 | | It is very sturdy. |
| mlriley540 | Scratch Built FFVS J 22 | Build | 30-Jun-17 22:56 |  | | Views : 764 | | Tissue is on. |
| LASTWOODSMAN | SIG Cabinaire | Parked | 30-Jun-17 15:20 |  | | Views : 754 | | Sig 20" "Customaire" biplane - Rudder/fin framing is doubled white glued and the stab is all blocked up with small bracing planks pinned in place, ready to glue. |
| LASTWOODSMAN | SIG Cabinaire | Parked | 30-Jun-17 15:13 |  | | Views : 803 | | Oh well, so much for chivalry ... |
| LASTWOODSMAN | SIG Cabinaire | Parked | 29-Jun-17 18:06 |  | | Views : 847 | | Some progress on the Customaire. The fin/rudder is all "double-glued up" with white glue as per Don Ross' Treatise book "Rubber Powered Model Airplanes", which I had signed out from the Library, read it, highlighted it , made pencil notes all over it, then ordered a new book, and went back to the Library to give them the new book, got heck from the Librarian, but she eventually let me exchange it, but charged me $2.60 for having to switch over the cover and bar codes info ... I am going all out and double gluing and bracing up everything with small 1/16" balsa planks |
| FireBird | Guillows Series 500 - P-40 Warhawk | Parked | 29-Jun-17 15:25 |  | | Views : 2491 | | Another view of the P-40 Warhawk. You can see the chair inside. |
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