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Old 11-14-2010 | 09:32 PM
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jofunk
 
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Default RE: 1/4 scale F9F Panther build

I finished up building the box that will take the wing plug ins and the landing gear plates. I just built what looks like it will work, It's Ziroli f-9 and f -10 with Joe F. plates, supports ,and plug in mounting locations. I also took the # 5 and# 6 set of hoz. stabs and spread some lite filler on the tips where the slow moving wire burns a little more of the foam away. I also put some tips on my hoz. stabs. It is just a lite ply plan view that I white glued on then it will get back filled with whatever scrap balsa I have laying around. It will then be sanded to shape. It's the way you do it when you don't have nice big chunks of balsa around for tips. I also started goofing around Making some foam tip tanks. The cylinder was cut out of a block of foam using some cardboard templates. then I drew on some red rlngs to what I thought looked right to get rid of most of the foam. then I used a smaller template at the nose and a washer at the back and free hand rough cut from the template to the red line. To get from a block of foam to a rough cut tip tank only took about 20 minutes. It was no big deal.