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RE: F2G Corsair Build Sneak Peak!!! - 7/15/2004 4:18:46 AM   
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As usual nicely done. Well I started to work on my TF Corsair again after giving up on Sierra retracts and working on other projects. Keep motivating us


Thanks Pete, that's great news you are starting on the Corsair again! Keep it going!

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I'm surprised that you built the canopy form almost "free-hand". It's really looking good. I usually do this work with the side profile and formers.


Hey Flo, Surprised? I never do anything the easy way, it's against my principals! I prefer working free-hand, having all kinds of formers or rules hinders me! I like to use my eye to judge things, although it don't always work!

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Luke can build anything with a little spit and bubblegum! NICE canopy, dude! I'm gonna need one of those when I get around to my Race #57


Haha, you kill me Glory! Don't know about the bubble gum thing! You will get a canopy, and I want a plane built for it too!!!

OK, back to the build! Didn’t get my clear plastic sheet, UPS man missed delivery, won’t be here till tomorrow. Had a whole day to work on the F2G, so I had to do something!

1. I installed all the snakes needed for the controls, retract and steering. With that done I needed a canopy to finish the top sheeting, so I made one out of ABS for now. I order 8’ sheets of .040 and .020 ABS so using it up is not a worry!

2. Shows the new former F-8B that I had to add to support the rear cockpit deck. I’m making the canopy operable so I wanted to get this area as close to right as I could.

3. Rear deck installed.

4.Here I am tracing the outline of my canopy and checking the fit.

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RE: F2G Corsair Build Sneak Peak!!! - 7/15/2004 4:21:12 AM   
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Status: offline 		1.The rear turtle deck can be easily sheeted with 2 strips of balsa. Glue the front down first then trim the last little bit in the rear and glue it down. The fuselage is in very rough shape, after the bottom is sheeted I will then start to sculpt and carve it into that sexy shape!

2.Just to see how it will look! I will get my plastic tomorrow, so I’ll be busy again making parts on the vacuum former.

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RE: F2G Corsair Build Sneak Peak!!! - 7/15/2004 8:38:11 AM   
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What about cockpit interior? are you going to build a scale cockpit into this Corsair as well? Looking at the pics, it sems that the cockpit floor is fairly high...
Just thoughts and questions

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RE: F2G Corsair Build Sneak Peak!!! - 7/15/2004 11:03:24 AM   
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What about cockpit interior? are you going to build a scale cockpit into this Corsair as well? Looking at the pics, it sems that the cockpit floor is fairly high...
Just thoughts and questions



Great, I like thoughts and questions, keeps it interesting! The cockpit floor is at the scale height, and yes I am going to add the cockpit interior. This is a good time to add some great pictures, I've been saving these! Notice that the pilot is sitting on the floor basically and that the seat cushion is at the top of the left and right consoles. Then look at the distance from the top of the consoles to the top cockpit side, not that deep is it? The fact that the rear turtle deck is cut down is adding to the optical illusion that you are seeing. The cockpit is really very shallow.

Dion

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RE: F2G Corsair Build Sneak Peak!!! - 7/15/2004 10:15:53 PM   
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Looks like race #57 cockpit ...... is it not?

Did you have time to talk to Bob O?

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RE: F2G Corsair Build Sneak Peak!!! - 7/16/2004 3:11:01 AM   
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Dion,

Looks like race #57 cockpit ...... is it not?

Did you have time to talk to Bob O?


Hey babysitter! Have I been good? Yes it's race #57, I had someone take them for me, I've never seen it in person. They would have had a hard time getting me off of it with my tape measure! Can I play now?

OK, now for the fun… yea that’s it! Let me just say that vacuum forming white styrene is nothing, trying to get a perfectly clear canopy… now that’s something! You da man if you do’s that! I have formed clear parts in the past, but all were for small fun scale junk, I scratch built a couple of fun scale Mark’s Models Corsairs and I made the canopies for them. I didn’t care about how they looked though! I’m still working on the technique for this but I am getting close to perfection!

First off plaster plugs will never give good results on clear parts, it works great for White Styrene though. I took some .015 Styrene and formed it over my plaster plug , I then hit it with some 600 grit sandpaper to make sure it was smooth.. Then wipe it down with a tack cloth. No matter what you do stuff will stick to the plastic sheet, pulling the protective plastic off the sheet will cause static electricity!

I got the aluminum frame idea from Chad Viech, thank you Chad! I was using wood before, big pain. Using aluminum makes it so easy. I probably made my frame to big, it’s 24” long and it rests on the stock rack stations on the side. I have to use some sheet metal screws on the end of the frame to hold the plastic. The one problem with a frame this size is that the heating element is not that long, so the plastic only gets soft in the middle.

Here it is after forming.

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RE: F2G Corsair Build Sneak Peak!!! - 7/16/2004 3:12:40 AM   
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Status: offline 		And it pops right off! Now start looking for the smallest of flaws… darn I see a speck right in the clear area!!!!!

Here is my production line, why I kept making them I don’t know! Was having to much fun trying to make the perfect canopy maybe?

Dion

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RE: F2G Corsair Build Sneak Peak!!! - 7/16/2004 10:20:12 AM   
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Status: offline 		wow, i can just tell this will finish out to be one of the best looling corsairs i've seen, and as for all the pics of real corsairs, your realy lucky, ive never seen one in real life.
that tail wheel work is great.

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RE: F2G Corsair Build Sneak Peak!!! - 7/16/2004 10:42:35 AM   
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Status: offline 		Luke, I *really* think that the title of this thread is WRONG. It's WAY off.

It should be called..

PORNO FOR PILOTS.



Cuz y'know.. like.. these pics that yer posting.. uh. I think I need another tissue.

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RE: F2G Corsair Build Sneak Peak!!! - 7/16/2004 2:47:02 PM   
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Gees, you sure can tell this is a male dominated hobby...

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RE: F2G Corsair Build Sneak Peak!!! - 7/26/2004 4:51:56 PM   
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wow, i can just tell this will finish out to be one of the best looling corsairs i've seen, and as for all the pics of real corsairs, your realy lucky, ive never seen one in real life.
that tail wheel work is great.


Thanks IL2rv-56! I'm glad you are enjoying my thread.

Glory!! Haha, I'll keep that in mind for my next giant scale Corsair thread if I do one!

OK, I have not been working on my project for almost 2 weeks, I have been working on planes though! I am out of town, well... way out of town! I'm in Bellingham Washington, I'll be here one more day then I'll fly back to FL. The plane I got to work on is Bill Anders Skyraider, they are deFrenching it, taking off all the old French antenna and things. It will be painted in the Vietnam camouflage later. I also got to crawl all over his F8F-2 Bearcat, by the way the Bearcat is for sale for $$$2.3 Million if anyone is interested! I am thinking of driving to Seattle tomorrow to see the F2G at the Museum of Flight, not sure if it will be worth it though, you can't get near the thing with all the alarms and cameras around it, really a shame.

See you all later,

Dion

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RE: F2G Corsair Build Sneak Peak!!! - 7/27/2004 1:33:59 AM   
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"Health is more valuable than wealth"
Hippocrates(460-377 B.C.)


But not long ago, Dionysus-Bacchus intoned:
...by the way the Bearcat is for sale for $$$2.3 Million if anyone is interested!

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And, yeah, OK, on a different note, Dionysus-Bacchus said:
"...The plane I got to work on is Bill Anders Skyraider..."

Well, all I can say is the big ol' "ABLE DOG" even makes LUKE look small !!!
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Hehe... have a great trip back, Luke-Baccha-Hoovius. Me, I've had to be away again myself, etc., etc.; but here at home in Boston I have finally gotten started on my Corsair and I am psyched. More on her tomorrow.

Meanwhile, because of the Democratic National Convention we have had solitary F-15 Eagles circling us aloft, exactly as they did on 9/11 and the days following. I cannot describe what it looks, sounds, and feels for me to see this solitary bird aloft as a last line of defense against catastrophe. These are amazing times...to my knowledge we've never had aircraft doing CAP during public events here in Boston!

Have a great trip back, Amigo. Thanks for your cool post today!

John

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RE: F2G Corsair Build Sneak Peak!!! - 8/2/2004 3:53:40 PM