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Thanks Michel, Bob, and Normand. Appreciate your kind comments. Look forward to when your birds will rise into the blue yonder. Normand, the r3 450 should be an awlsome engine in this bird especially if does not get to heavy. The more scale detail work the heavier. Some get up to 28lbs or more. I built mine mainly to fly with no added scale detail for now except full cockpit interior and pilot. Covered in ultracoat and came in at 20 lbs which included beefing up the wing root area and adding i/4 inch ply ribs at the root to make a two piece wing. here a couple pics of two piece wing in the raw.
Hi I ve finally got more time on the P-47 . The bottom sheeting is almost complet , so that means that means that the work will show more of what I ve done in the past several weeks . I hope to complelr the fuss and the rear tail wheel retract door . It will be made out of fiberglass . I will be makeing a mould and than making the door in the mould . Doin g it this way is the only way to keep the same form as the fuss . Than will come the hinging of the retract door . this I figer is the most complicated part . I ll know soon
Michel
< Message edited by michel gravelle -- 5/4/2008 11:37:46 PM >
Hi Here are the results of my labour , for the underside of the fuss . I m not pleased with the alignment of the rudder , but nothing that can not be repaired .
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Joined: 12/4/2004 From: hastings, MN, USA Status: offline
Pete
You don't think any P-47 builders would mis behave do you??? You will just have to catch us.
A little up date well I how have all of the major pnl lines on the fuss and control surfaces and they are waiting for collor still have that biiig wing to do sand and at least one more coat of prime. After doing some rivets on a sample, and then counting jusr one side of the horzintal, Ther is no way I will do rivets.
With 5 pages of color pic' of bubble tops I am having a bit of a time on a scheem I pick one the wife like another , try to get our son to reff and he just makes it worse , so will just keep going till forced Ba hum bug
Well that my story for now and I am sticking to it
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Bob, mate I would not trust you lot as far as I could drop kick you all!!! hehehe
anyway things are going well with hte wife so I'm hoping to be back into it very shortly. Will be moving my planes back home this weekend and all my small stuff, weekend after will move the rest of my stuff back home.
Sounds as though you have your work cut out picking a scheme, that is one of the first things I choose when about to start a project. Anyway good luck in that task!
Hi Got some more work done on the build . Finished sheeting the top front end and did some filling and sanding . You know , I hear so much about how people do not like sanding Now , I cannot say that I love sanding , but I can appreciate what a good few hours of sanding can do . I can pass hours on a model and for some reason the time passes so fast . I only passed a few hours sanding and the fuss seem to come to some life of what its suppose to represent . Its sad to say that building is a dyeing breed . And lets face it , its more expensive to build than it is to purchase an ARF ( a swearing word to a builder )
Michel
< Message edited by michel gravelle -- 5/7/2008 1:29:19 AM >
Great news guy's. This plane flies like it is on rails. I took DWR's advice and made a small hole in the front baffle to reduce any low pressure area's............worked like a charm. This plane flies so well, only a bit of down trim required for level flight. The balance was bang on, and in a turn with ailerons only, the tail remained high in the turn, AWESOME!!! Very happy with the way it flies. All up weight, 24 lbs, G-62 spinning a 22x10, Pro Zinger prop @ 6200 rpm. No in flight pictures, but will have a video posted as soon as I can. I am on cloud 9 right now
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I pick one the wife like another 
, try to get our son to reff and he just makes it worse 
, so will just keep going till forced 
Ba hum bug 