rt3232

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Hay mods what happened to the pic's in this thread, and why is it so hard to find


Bob t

cimara

Heres the frame cut from the front wind screen amd sliding .I added a rim to the wind screen and the sliding canopy made out of the pc board stuff you can get at radio shac las pic is of the leftovers of that board

NCIS

Winston,

Did it work for you on the first try? I'm going to do it on My 1/4 scale Corsair. I love your idea. Very inventive. I already ordered the mold release. Is the mold release that thin clear film I see you peeling off in one of your pictures? My canopy as your 1/4 scale canopy has a protective film. Would you leave it on and just paint the mold release over that?

Very nice,

Barry

cimara

Barry it did work on the first try .Yes that clear film is the mold release comming off some time you will have to use warm sopy water to get it off .Yes leave that cllear protective film on the canopy extra insurance to prevent scratches good luck

NCIS

Thanks for the info and incouragement. I sure wish you would finish that piece of art your building and enjoy some of the fun[:-] I'm having with Dons plans and good luck with the wood. Rest assured you will be buying a lot of it to make his plans into a Corsair. I have been close to throwing the whole thing in the scrap pile and going with a 100" Meister and just making flaps for it. If I didn't already have a bunch of DOW spent on this Ark I would do just that.

Barry

cimara

Barry your doing fine on the DS corsair build i think .Its just he left so much for the builder to figure out.I think if you was to have added flaps to the meister kit it would have been just as big a pain .Peice of art well thanks but its far from that .I ve been working on it so long now i have gotten burned out Building it cant weight till the Ds kit comes in for some fun the price has went up alot (around 100 dollars ) since you ordered yours so mabie it will have more wood in it

NCIS

Well I'm doing the best I can with what I have. I am determined to have a piece of art when I'm done. Are you still getting your kit cut at Laser Cut USA?

Barry
Corsair Brotherhood #4

cimara

got mine from Dino

NCIS

Dino and Pat at Laser Cut are Partners.

Barry

NCIS

Winston,

Instead of making a mold for the canopy, can't I do it before I cut out the canopy.? That is the correct shape I think?

Barry

carlbecker

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The instructions here work well. Barry mold release can be a wax or PVA solution that is water soluable. I suggest you do a practice run before hand. IMHO its best to use the release agent right one the part to be molded. Better fit and more detail if its there.

foodstick

Great thread ! and results..I love seeing this kind of thing. Thanks for posting it.

cimara

Barry you can do that just need to make shure that the styrein does not spread out or is misshaped to begin with at the bottom were it attaches to the fuse . thats why i made the wood piece to prevent that .Its a pain to get the fiberglass to bend and stay a shape that it was not molded to be


Your welcome foodstic glad you like the info

Tseres

Winston
Thanks for all your help I honestly don't think I could have done it without your tred.
Here is a sample of My success.

Thanks again Old Tom

Evil_Merlin

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Fantastic thread. You should post this over at RC Scale Builder.

NCIS

Tseres,

That canopy looks great. Really fine work!!!

Barry

cimara

Glad you guys thought it was informative .


Tseres the canopy looks great

Evil_Merlin
might have to do that

Destroyer of Airplanes

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Winston,

Thanks for taking taking the time to produce this thread. I would have never thought to do that. I can't wait to get home from work and try it.

Paul

Brad330l

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Yep, good work Guys!![sm=thumbs_up.gif] I will have to attempt this on my bubble canopy for my Spitfire.

Cheers,

Brad