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Old 01-11-2015, 02:47 AM
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I should have started this here,but please check it out
http://www.rcuniverse.com/forum/elec...500-racer.html
Old 01-15-2015, 06:58 PM
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Great post and pictures. Very helpful for the beginner like me. I got lots of ideas from this for my future project. Thanks for sharing and taking time to post.

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Kevin,

posted also on on the old thread.

I am sorry I did not see your thread till this am.

Great work and all so fun and interesting.

I does appear that at least 218 people were watching, maybe not commenting. Maybe you'll get more interaction here.

I think your project looks great and glad to see someone else spending the time to mold planes.

Does that dough mixer spiral element on your KithenAid mixer do a better job than the other style mixing element with the white paint on it?

Seems mine simply breaks both parts of the tooling dough into equally small fragments which I then I have to kneed by hand.

Nice work. Can't wait to see the continuation

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I guess the next 1 I do will be How to lay up 101
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I can only do about 300gr of each at 1 time.
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About 365 grams of each in my bowl before it is spilling out.

But you like the mixing spiral element?

Did you shoot a clear coat before the layup of the fiberglass or is that just resin rich on the first ply.

The part looks beautiful and clean.
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No I just brush in a coat of resin before I put in the fiberglass and work it in.
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Well it looks great!
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Great post! Love to see more.

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