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WELL I'VE BEEN WORKING ON THIS BUILD FOR A LITTLE OVER ONE YEAR AND I JUST DID A BIG WRITE UP ON THIS PLANE AND HIT THE WRONG BUTTON AND LOST IT ALL SO IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS JUST ASK I'M NOT WRITING IT ALL OVER AGAIN.
This plane was made from a modified set of Guillows plans and will have a 80" wing span and will come in around 20 -25 lbs every thing will be hand made you will see in the photos Engines will be two OS FS - 95V four strokes
and all control surfaces pushrods will be concealed.
The model I'm building is the plane on the end to the right simply called Night Lightning it's the first one built.

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Alright let's see if it will let me load more than one photo at a time or this is going to take forever!!

glazier808

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signed on sir!

Casey

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Alright so far so good I'm going to try and get them in the best order I can but ther all over the place as far as order goes!

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The photos have been resized so it's working good so far!

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All of the ribs and formers are ply it's light 3/16" luan ply, ALL stringers are 3/16" x 3/16"
3/16" x 1/8" and 1/8" x 1/8"balsa.

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The flaps will be functional I made my own fowler flap hinges;
All of these parts were figured out while building and you will see that parts are cut off and cut in half or modifide in some way.

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The skins on the booms is 1/16" balsa sheets wet w/ alcohol and cut into wedges to fit then thin CA GLUE is wicked in from behind while rubber bands held the sheets in place, when done they will be sand seald and primed w/ high build primer and then painted.
The wings will get 3/32" balsa sheeting and will be glassed,primer and paint

bosssman

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Very impressive! To accomplish all that from a set of Guillow's plans. I built my share of Guillow's kits as a kid and you have my admiration for blowing a set up large enough so to build such a large model. Also, you say in your signature "JACK OF ALL, MASTER OF NONE" - you are DEFINITELY a master fabricator in my opinion! Look forward to following this build to completion.....

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The nacelle was also coverd w/ 1/16" balsa then the doors were cut out and used as molds to make the fiberglass
replacements I also made a battery compartment in the nose, and the nacelle will get glued to the wing once the two halfs of the wing are glued together.

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There stil more photos to go with the last post.

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Once I cast all of the pieces I started to work on the guns these I bought models so I would get great detail.
I cut holes through the nose and then glued plastic tubbing back in the holes (ports) where the guns extend out from.

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And a few more that go with the last post.

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And there was the aft part of the nacelle - cockpit.

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SHANEC

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WOW! Keep um coming! Nice work!

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Scoops on the booms and the controls for the rudders

glazier808

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man you're a quick builder there Bruce!



Casey

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Then there's the main landing gears.

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And the front gear.

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The supperchargers and other molds scoops etc.

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And now were up to where I'm at now the cowlings making the molds, casting and primming.

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Alright these are not resized so I have to do them one at a time but you will be able to really zoom in on these photos.

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And today I've been working on the spinners mold and it's curing until tomorrow.