splinterz25

Alright you have made up my mind then I will have to cut some kind of a hole in the cowl anyway for COOLING so I think I'll go with my first thought and put the OS FS- 95V four stroke and have plenty of power!!I have been back and forth with this and now I think this is how I'll go thanks for your input Duplicator41.

splinterz25

Well I claded the canopy check it out.

Duplicator41

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Keep in mind that B.T. flew his originally on a couple of FS 40's which were marginal, he changed to a couple of FS 48's and it flew well. Yours should be a rocket at half throttle on the 95's.

Cheers,

splinterz25

So you think it will fly scale like with the 52's?

splinterz25

mixed some paint and shot a light coat of grey now I'll let it cure and then glaze it and make the molding that goes around the bottom where it meets the FUSE. check it out

Duplicator41

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Splinterz, what are you projecting as your all up weight. (dry)

Cheers,

splinterz25

I'm thinking around 16 LBS. Brians was 13lbs 10 oz

Duplicator41

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That may be borderline at that weight for the 52's. Think about the OS .62's. They will probably swing a three blade 12 x 7 prop at around 9K. Just my opinion but it gives you more power margin. But then I've never overpowered my scale planes, it's just a personal preference.

Cheers,

Great build by the way.

splinterz25

Thank you Duplicator41 for the complement on the build and the help w/ choseing an engine
WELL I ORDERD THEM TODAY I went with this.
www3.towerhobbies.com/cgi-bin/wti0001p

Duplicator41

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Good for you. One more thought for you, when you break them in and for your flying, I follow the recommendations of Brian Winch. He's the authorized service center for Saito in Oz. He never uses any fuel with castor oil in it. therefore no gumming up of the valves or burnt on gunk. He recommends Cool Power all synthetic. Having said this, I'm sure it will start up lots of controversy on fuels.

Cheers,

splinterz25

Thanks again Duplicator41....Makes sence to me that's all I run in my Honda synthetic oil and it's never had anything else, except what they put in there from the factory! I was looking at tower s prices and it's about $105 for four gals.
Well I made some more mods. to the frame work on the canopy the aft bit is not stock the small triangles on the rear arch are scale. T he part on the aft end wont be seen very much but was a must for the glazing or I would have kept breaking it, I found some half round plastic strip here in the house (it's window screan splin) and should work real nice to blend the plexi w/ the FUSE I'll show that later after I finish the glazing.

splinterz25

I glued the aft section glazing on you can see the glue if you look real close and some still has to dry more, there's a photo of the glue used for this and the cladding also.

splinterz25

Well I continoue to work on the canopy glazing it's slow going but I'm making progress in the back ground you can see the piece of trim I will wrap around the glazing where it meets the FUSE it's on the graph paper.

splinterz25

Alright I've got the canopy most of the way finished it still needs some cleaning and touch ups.

splinterz25

Alright I cut out as much as I dare untill the UPS man comes tomorrow and I can see what the pilots size is!!

splinterz25

Supplies and ENGINES arrived today along with the PILOT and REO fuletanks,lines.filters,engine mounts etc.

splinterz25

I started to work on the pilot figures they were very heavy so I removed a whole bunch from the inside by drilling and grinding and since they were 1/7th scale I have made some hight adjustments.

splinterz25

If you get Century Jet pilot figures be ready to do some custom workA lot of drilling and grinding and detail work on these, CHECK THE AMOUNT OF MATERIAL REMOVED!!
The pilot w/ the mask his head phones are to big and I'll be grinding them down to look like the other figures!

glazier808

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its snowing!

splinterz25

I did some more ground off the big head phones and made them mach the other figure. and other details and shot the first base coat starting with the darkest color for the shadows.

splinterz25

ALright the paint is on there is still a few touch ups but you be the judge!

splinterz25

I started to make the seat this way I be able to see where everything eles goes with some kind of a referance.
There are still quite a few more details going on the seat.

glazier808

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Your pilots look nice! Thats much better than I could of done for sure. Mine always end up looking like they are geeked out on coffee lol.
That seat looks very comfy...

Casey

splinterz25

Thanks Casey I don't think they were very comfy...at all could you emagine flying a 20hr mission those guys were on top of each other! and just hope you don't have to go to the little pilots room.

I added some more pieces to the seat.

splinterz25

This is what mine will look like it's only a model but the color scheme is correct!