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ORIGINAL: panhandler

Well there i go againg ,,, thinking to hard

Thanks for the sugestion guys . 

I will go through my stash of hard wood and build them up.

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ORIGINAL: panhandler

Everything is looking real good now . I spent the past few days filling and sanding .

Pod is ready for finishing also the booms are very close .

I still need to reinforce the tail section of the booms , the way it came stock just bothers me . it looks to flimsy.

I decided to go with the dual recievers to cut down on y-connections .

Thank you Gary i'll keep a look out for the parts  , now i can get a good feel how to access the bats, if i can manuver around the tube supports  ( still not to late to go with 4 strokes ) ;}
I am still debaiting on rough sanding the original covering and painting over it ,, or just pull it all off and recover with fresh monokote.

Decision  decisions

I feel as though i am getting close to putting her all together , i have to say this is the exciting part .

Dan

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ORIGINAL: panhandler

Sounds great with the P-51 , where is the video ?

I can't believe your thinking of going with electric .

If you need to flip a coin on the P-38 , hopefuly it falls on the Ziroli . If all goes well with this build i am definatly going that way.

As far as power plant i am going with the lower end equitment , i am just getting back into building and flying so i think i should walk before i run .

What i have on hand to power this bird is 2-Turnigy 6364  280kv motors and for power  i have 2 Sky lipo's 4400 mAH 6s , with 2 Hobbyking platinum 80a series esc's . and to get the best performance from this is 2 APC 15 x13.5 x 3 props . And after bench testing all this pulls 44 amps on each bat and just over 18lbs of thrust . Motocalc says it shuold be in the range of 75 mph .

I know what you meen about the sound , when i pull these APC props up to full throttle they sound sweet.

Well back to more sanding .

Dan

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ORIGINAL: panhandler

I did a little testing with paint the past few days and i am not realy happy with the results.
 I preped one of the cowls with roughing it up with 400 grit paper , cleaned it very well.

Then shot it with 2 coats of grey primer from Sherwin Williams , and of course wet sanding between coats .

I thought i found a close match with the finish color to come close to the original silver skin.
I shot a test piece of balsa sheeting to check the final color ,,SW chrome aluminum , it looked pretty close . Now i shot the cowl
and wow is that bright , looks more like polished aluminum .

I have yet to try rustolium colors .  I just  may stay with this color but the only draw back is every imperfection stands out .

Gary i hope we have better luck with snail mail then we do with emails , still no parts bud . If you sent them i hope our mail delivery person din't deliver to the wrong house , ( he has done this many times before ,, hmm wonder what he has under his seat  ).

Dan

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ORIGINAL: panhandler

No worries i am relieved the mailman didn't make another one of his goofs.

I have been thinking of adding  some more scale apperance to the gear doors  on the inside , i think it would look great with the apperance of the metal frame work when there open .
I was thinking of using .020 thick aluminum and punch the reliefe holes in them or  form them from  2 oz. fiberglass .

I have some more ideas for more detail work but that will have to wait till winter .

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ORIGINAL: Bob Paris

Hi Guys,
The wings of my P-38 are now finished and flight ready. I'm now making the bottom cover plate, for the nacelle main landing gear and servo's. I will be starting the removable stab next. The model does sit tail low and I'm happy with the outcome. My mail landing gear do hang down below the nacelle's a bit...but I'll just have to live with it. I will not go to smaller main tires, and using 4'' robart scale wheels now. I was surprised at how cramped everything got in the nacelles, but I was able to hook everything up, while I assembled the model for control testing. All worked as planed and my landing gear is able to retract with out any issues.

The Super Monokote does not seem to be like it once was. It seems not to cover other colors like it did years ago...but it does seem to shrink up better.

Both my wings, flight ready weight out to 3 lbs 8 oz.

Soft Landings Always,
Bobby of Maui

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ORIGINAL: kakariki

Hi Gary
              I'm trying to PM you, but not having any luck. I'm not sure if your back home yet. I'm just wondering what is happening with my kit.
Or if anyone else can enlighten me on where Gary is that would be helpful.
Thanks
Barry in OZ

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ORIGINAL: panhandler

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Thanks for the sugestion guys . 

I will go through my stash of hard wood and build them up.

Glad to help.

BTW, be on the look out for some parts.

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ORIGINAL: Bob Paris

Hi Guys,
Well I'm well on my way to finishing the removable horizontal tail...but I managed to run into a problem. I managed to brake off the top part of the very end of the nacelle, where the stab slides into the nacelle aft secton. I was concerned with this before and covered it three layers of .6 of an oz. glass cloth. But it needed more strength...and though I bumped the end piece that broke it...I didn't bump it that hard. It surprised me at how weak this area was, and if you look close to how the aft part of the nacelle was built up, its easy to see why it broke.

If you look at the first picture, you can see a dark line...this is where it broke. The next picture shows how I bent the 1/64" ply, with amonia and water...with the last, the job complete.

So I used med. CA and glued the piece back on...making very sure all was straight and true. I then made a 1/64" ply wood doubler and this piece covered over the area that needed additional strength. I used epoxy to glue the doubler onto the fuse and this seemed to give me the strength I was looking for, for this part of the nacelle.


Moving along...

Soft Landings Always,
Bobby of Maui