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Formation and nav lights.

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Looks Great Gary

Happy Holidays to you and your family and everyone on here!!!

Keith

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Here is a look at the mod needed for the intake install. A before and after. The intake itself, when glued in with gorilla glue or epoxy replaces the webbing removed.

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Thanks Keith

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Here are the guns fully installed. This is Bruce's wing, but Dennis, yours looks the same. Brian builds the 'barrels' with the orange lights installed, so you have them as well, even though you are not getting the guns at this point. Later, if you decide to go with them, it is an easy thing to add the batteries, speakers (we also install the mount for these at this point), and control box.

For those just doing the gun port fairings, this is how they should look when you are done.

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Here are the lights fully installed in the outer panels. The aluminum is Aerofoil from Meister and is installed on aircraft that are going to be weathered as this one will be.

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I finally was able to locate some grill material for the oil coolers in the scale intakes we make. The new perforated material is stainless steel, but the weight difference from the aluminum material is nominal. They are back in production and i have (6) sets being made for various projects around the world, plus our own builds. Thank you all for your patience.

here is a set ready to install.

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Here is where we install the air tanks for the main gear doors. This is a (closed) system. We use no connections to the fuselage, so no disconnects. This is a handy area in the rear of the center section. Makes easy access from the front of the tanks to the area where we install the valve. The fill valve is located in the flip down panel in the bottom hatch.

freddd

Gary,

in one of earlier posts you explained how you used aero foil in various parts to help with weathering (typically leading edge). I understood that aero foil or flight metal required a very good underneath surface. How did you deal with the fact that the surface has rivets detail. Did it come through the aero foil or did you "re-mark" rivets where they were coming through the aero foil. Or alternatively filled-in the rivets before applying Aero foil.

thanks
frederic

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Good question. Aerofoil is so thin that any surface detail will translate threw it, including even dust. Rivet, panel lines, panel fasteners, and other molded detail can be brought out with a #8 artists blending stick, by rubbing (burnishing) the foil into these details. In addition to this, after the foil is applied, all these type details can be easily embossed into the foil. A #7 mechanical pencil works great for panel lines, and flush rivets can easily be made with a piece of brass tubing sharpened on the inside with an exacto knife. I solder a T handle on top to make it more comfortable.

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The Down and Locked electric wing conversion on one of our latest builds.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oEE7oN5Jkqo

2nd video after applying grease to the left wing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i60za8BO66g&feature=youtu.be

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For those getting our bottom hatch kit, here is more explanation to help with parts ident and install. Each plane is different, so you will need to notch your ply to fit. If you are building the ARF, the first picture is how your plane will look after you cut your bottom hatch in. If you have the kit, those pieces will come in the kit and be installed by you first.

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Here is a new video about our gun system for the Corsair. It explains its operation and installation.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Hn7...ature=youtu.be

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This is a new video of our custom lighting system for the CARF Corsair. It provides an overview of the system, some installation instructions, and some cautions for safe use. Here are a couple pictures of the plywood housing, referred to in the video, that the builder needs to make for the tip lights.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blHZ...ature=youtu.be

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I fixed post #2886 so that both videos now play. Not sure what happened.

freddd

Fyi, the first video is showing as private and cannot be opened.
frederic

freddd

Thanks for the earlier explanation on Aero Foil. Looking at some of the earlier pictures, it seems that you were able after paint to reveal some of the fasteners. Was that done with general sanding (3m pad or similar) or targeting the fasteners (one by one !).
Would it had been a solution to create your rivets post paint an reveal possible the Aero Foil ?

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Ok. I went back and checked and I must have not clicked 'publish'. It should work now. Sorry.

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I do the fastener detail before the paint. I go back over random rivets and such after painting. Reason being that in full scale usually not all fasteners have the paint chipped off. Now as for Dzus fasteners, I do all of them as they were used frequently.

Remember, most of the Corsair was spot welded, so there is very little fastener detail aft of the cockpit, other than Dzus and screws.

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Some examples of building done right, and.........not so much.

Flap hinges. Good.



Not so good.

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Good job.



Not so much.



All this can be fixed, but could just as easily been done properly the first time. We should always do our homework, ask questions, use the correct materials, and in the case of the CARF products, at least on the first go around, read the manual front to back and understand it before beginning. They really have thought this through and do a good job helping the beginner.

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Thought you would enjoy these Gary. I'm on a corsair FB group… some awesome pics for subjects and lots of restoration stuff.

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Nice Mike. You never see pictures like that. Very helpful.

saramos

Gary (and everyone) You can check out 4 years of photos of a Brewster Corsair restoration at Ezell Aviation. I had the honor of spending some time working on a Goodyear Corsair there a few years back.


http://www.ezellaviation.com/project...-f3a/f3a-2011/

Scott

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As always, thank you very much Scott.

BTW, Brian and I picked up an unbuilt plug-in version for our own fleet. It is the ARF, and we will be modeling a Goodyear Corsair (not sure which one yet). They were built just a few miles from my house.

Need to clear out the present projects first though. Spring is on the way.