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Hal: I have been following the progress of your T34B with great interest. I was so impressed with your building skills and the beauty of the plane that I went out and bought the Top-Flite T34B kit. I'm currently working on the fuselage but was wondering how you tackled the sliding canopy? Any suggestions on your part would be welcome.
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CAP21, Like the cowl. Good looking for sure, just a lil short . I have given up on my t-34, its so close but cant find the time or money with my competing jet addiction! It will probably just sit here in hopes of one day flying, unless someone wants it.
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Hey jetbob, this one is fully loaded, and almost complete with all the details the wings can hold up. If you go back on this thread you will see my progress. It is in a great place to finish up building in few hours. It has a smoke system (skywriter), full nav, landing, strobe and position lights.
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Hey sar, well i just gotta tell you. I am a broke air force staff sergeant that lets this hobby take me too far. I LOVE jets, and try to have them and these, cant do it. Not till i take my butt to the outside workforce! It has just been sitting here in my garage as i focus on my jets!!!! This thing is ready for flight metal, if desired. I have never seen one, but i was thinking about doing the MOPAR MENTOR, in flight metal! Would be sick, that was also why i put smoke in it.
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Pantherflyr-
That's exactly the scheme I'm using on mine. I've got some updated photo's of the plane from Reno this year that I could email to you if you're interested. Julie's crew chief sent me the color codes for the paint too. Imron royal blue 6000 series W0347H-sovereign blue met W0229H-dark continental blue met (turquoise) W0217H-silver met I'm also going with Flite-Metal (the weight is less than paint & primer), although you'll use a lot of filler. The surface as to be absolutely smooth and clean. This was going to be my "learning" project with Flite-Metal, I've also got a Ziroli DC-3 as "Ship 41" (Delta Airlines flagship), that will be polished aluminum! Any idea what yours weighs now (with fiberglass) and what weight of cloth was used?
Chris
Pretty shiny...
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Chris, thanks. I used CST 3/4 ounce glass, and after all is said and done, with all the components in, i would say it weighs about 15 lbs, without gas. Right on par with what i expected. Nick
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Ha Panter, I know what you mean.... I'm a broke Air Force TSgt and trying to budget out building this plane. I was trying to get a "Guess't-a-ment" of how much you have put into your project. I am tempted, but I have a boss that builds competitive scaled war-birds and thinks it's cheating if you don't build it yourself. Thinking about that, I agree. Hope I didn't offend by asking. If I do get serious about it, I will contact you and see if you still have it. Your T-34 looks awsome, if or when I build my T-34, I'm benchmarking alot of what you have done.
Chris, if you wouldn't mind I would like to see the pictures of the "MOPAR MENTOR" T-34. I want to get as much details on panel lines and rivet details as I can. Especially the quartering away picture with flaps fully extended. I just hit pay dirt and found my "Squadrons" T-34 book, now if I could only find my T-34 flight T/O. I'm still planning to detail my T-34A like the aircraft I flew 19 years ago with an all metal finish.
Are you planning to put flight metal over the model without fiberglass? If you are doing that with the DC-3, I would like to see pictures of that.
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I agree with your boss, i dont like it when people dont at least finish the plane, especially jets. They are so easy to build from kits. Anyways. Let me know, it will be sitting in the corner. Nick
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SarDog- They're on their way to your email address. I sent them as a zip file. If you don't receive them let me know. I'll split them up as smaller files. No I don't plan to put Flite-metal directly on the wood. It might look ok once, but would look like crap every time the wood was dented, it's not fuel proof either. I thought about putting fiberglass down with water based Polyurethane but you need the hardness of good old epoxy. My DC-3 was built up from the Ziroli plans and crashed. I may just buy an American Eagle kit and re-use the hardware, it's a glass fuse with foam wings. I would be able to get it lighter than a glassed Ziroli, and put the 'metal on with less effort. (who am I kidding? I've been working on an arf since April. I'm never going to get to the -3).
Chris
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. I have given up on my t-34, its so close but cant find the time or money with my competing jet addiction! It will probably just sit here in hopes of one day flying, unless someone wants it.
