wulf190

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Kaput on the surface details I think....all ready to paint now. I used thin styrene .005 for the hatches on the front, and on the top where the hinge was just used a really thin piece of half round styrene and used a hot knife blade to notch the hinge spaces into it, sanded it down a little to take off any edges and I think it will be sort of sporting when it gets paint on. Knocked out all the wing rivets today...not many on there really...thank the stars. For the cowl, to simulate the fasteners, I just used thin styrene circles cut out with a paper punch, glued them down and then burned in a circle into the center of them with a hot piece of 1/8" brass tube. I'll highlight the little head with a hot knife or silver pencil. Gotta buy more paint!

cimara

Bob you can right click highlight every thing in the post you want to save . then right click select copy then paste it in note pad

cimara

wolf can you tell me how many hours it takes to get sutch detail it looks great

wulf190

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Thanks Cimara. Hmm. Lets see. Haven't really added it up. Maybe a few hours to lay down the panel lines, then about 4 or 5 hrs. on the flitemetal stuff on the top of the wing and the hatches, another maybe 7 hours to rivet the whole thing and cut out all the little panels and stick them down. Really it's not all that bad considering how long it takes to build the plane. This kind of stuff is easy to do little bits and pieces at a time, but this weekend I needed to get done with this thing, so that it can get paint with other craft later in the week. Wanted to be done prepping so I could work on other stuff without interruption. We'll see how it looks with color on it, but I feel pretty good about how stuff will show up under there once weathered in slightly.

ctflyboy

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Pics of 2nd coat of primer

ctflyboy

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Wulf,
you didn't tell him about the priming, sanding, priming,& sanding (LOL)

Mike,
the Pics I just put up are with the 2nd coat of primer they were taken yesterday,I'm just about done with the fuse as far as sanding it down with #320 wet I think I'll hit it again with a very light coat and sand it wet with # 600 and then a really light coat of primer and then providing there aren't any major blemishes & FINALLY for the fuse anyway lay out the line .
George

cimara

Thanks Wolf i was getting worried expected you to say 60 to 70 hours . i dont know what you use to sand with but if you go to a place that sell auto paint they have sanding pads that wont sand finger marks in your finish if you press to hard. they come in several grits and work great . Well i should say they work great on cars they look like huge sos pads made

Zeeb

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This might seem like a silly question, but having done paint work on full scale stuff and not having worked with the materials you're using for detail, how are you going to get the paint to stick?

Seems like it's a ready made fish eye problem with all the different materials and trying to final clean the small parts...

Jon72286

Hello all, I found the G62 for sale on Chief Aviation.com. It is priced the same as everyone else. I also saw an inverted pitts style muffler with SMOKE! Somke is one feature that I want to put on this plane and I think it would be awome to see it do a low level pass with the smoke on. Also my buddy is building a giant scale Zero and I think we might put them up together and do some "Dog Fight" reinactmets and the smoke would look great to simulate getting hit. THe only thing is that I would have to cut into that beautiful cowl and have two pipes sticking out of the bottom of my bird. Dose anyone know if there are any almost scale style mufflers out there for the G62 with smoke? I was thinking also that I could cut the muffler pipes back a little bit so their not sticking way out from the bottom of my plane. Let me know what you all think. Thanks again

Petty Officer Jonathan P. Green USN

Zeeb

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This guy will build you anything you want for custom exhaust and he's pretty reasonable on prices, not a whole lot more than a good Pitts style muffler. I got a set of his scale type stacks for my brother to use on the giant scale TF P-51 with a ZDZ in it and the workmanship is really nice. He (Kelvin at Keleo) told me that a circular exhaust with the stacks exiting where ever I wanted for my 60 size Corsair would be no problem, so I'm thinking there's no reason he couldn't do one for the bigger model.

http://www.keleo-creations.com/index.html

wulf190

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Zeeb, I use Modelmaster paints and have never had a problem with them sticking to anything, fisheyeing, or color matching....just that you use a lot of those little jars!

John, Slimline makes a smoke muffler that would probably work for you. Problem isn't so much finding a hidden inverted muffler, it's finding space for a smoke tank in the fuse that's at or in front of the CG. Not sure where you would put it.

rt3232

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Cimara As you can tell my computer skills are the pits, But I get the hilite ok, then click on file and copy it never tell me ware to put it, Ive tried hilite and save and it won't give me an option ware to save to..

Thanks for the info as I will keep trying

Cheers Bob T

rt3232

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Jon Got to add my 2sense bennet also makes a pitts tyoe for the 62, but both bennet and slimline are loud right up there at the limit, not sure about keleo, but if he will make one with scale port positions that should brake up the noise some and it would be worth it, back in this thread are oic, s of what I did and it turned out fair right at 88db's at 9ft..

Good luck

Cheers Bob T

cimara

Bob i have to open the program note pad in windows this will give you two windows open. this thread and note pad. i hope you are using windows and not a mac anyway open note pad select file at the top click on new file this will give you a clean screen to use in case it comes up in a another file on the screen my always does . then high light the post you want to copy by preasing the left mouse button . then press the right mouse button select copy . then go to the window that has note pad opened up then right click the mouse again select paste
the post sould appear in the note pad window. then go to the top of the note pad window click on file and select save as another screen will pop up this is to tell it were to save the file i choose My documents and go to the bottom of the screen find the spot were it says file name type in a name in the box next to file name i use corsair for this page or 1/8 corsair for corsair bobs page then select save i leave the other options below file name alone . it should show up in your my documents file by selecting the start button then selecting my documents . i hope this helps

ctflyboy

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RT
Whats the weather your way? Any luck with a maiden flight?
George

cimara

heres some pics of how i do it

cimara

ill try again

cimara

heres the last

cimara

the order is left to right to going down sorry for the blurry images cheap camera hope u can tell were i am clicking

cimara

oh forgot you will have to change the name slightly so as no to over rigt the previous file you copied i use corsair 1 corsair 2 and so on found that out the hard way

cimara

can any one tell me were i can my 3views blown up tried office max and office depo they said the could not blow them up to the size i need thought about using a scale and just measuring the 3 view then scaling up but that woud take for ever

Zeeb

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Any place which does architectural stuff should be able to do it for you, they copy plans and blue prints all the time and can usually either enlarge or shrink the size, but it ain't cheap... [X(]

cimara

Thanks Zeeb Ill trie there

rt3232

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Hi Cimara

Saved the pic and thanks, will give it a try tomarrow..

Ctflyboy The weather turned great took the d@#%m thing to the field did a cold radio check cranked it up, and when I switched from the jumpstart to run it quit pulled cowl and found broked wire at the switch so no maiden, now with the new work schedualit looks like some time after the 10th. its the pitts.

Oh well Cheers Bob T

Jon72286

So I guess from your guys experience that there is no room for a smoke system in this bird? Let me know if you have ever heard of anyone using it and how they did it. Thanks guys, Jon