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Old 05-15-2012 | 10:51 AM
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bigbird3
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Default RE: GP Super Stearman

Davide, you are welcome and thanks for being so receptive. If you look on page 57 you will see what I did to mine. I cracked it up a bit in 2005 and it took me a couple of years to get around to resurrecting it but it is my favorite plane. It has an old style G-23 with a 15X8 master airscrew prop and is very scale flying. I have had it since 2003. The covering is 21st centry coverite fabric Cub Yellow. The stars and roundels are also. Hand cut and applied one piece at a time. I did scale stitching and taping also. The cockpit is rolled aluminum print plate and screwed down. The pilot is from Great Planes. It is a WW-I german pilot. They didn't have the military pilots for the stearman. Robart wheels with covers, the four cover screws are gently melted in with a hot brass tube and hot screw driver to simulate them and then painted. I have also posted the scale detail pictures probably in earlier posting or perhaps later ones. If you can find them you will see how I did the stitching.
Best wishes to you and yours.
bird.