Originally Posted by
erans
Matt - It looks great. Do you remember which kit it was built from (if it wasn't scratch built)? Is it tissue covered and then painted?
Cheers,
Eran
It was built from a short kit from Lazerworks. It was a Tom Stryker design published in Model Airplane News in May 1992. Apparently there was also a kit from Progressive Miniature Aviation. It was glassed with lightweight fiberglass cloth and Kwik Poly and then painted with Top flite Lusterkote. Kwik Poly was a very low viscosity polyester resin. It only had a bout a 3 minute pot life but it would wick into the cloth very easily and spread very thinly without needing to squeegee or blot the resin. it was tough and very lightweight. The plastic canopy wasn't available at the time so I just built it up out of balsa. Sadly the guys who ran Laserworks and Kwik Poly both retired some years ago. They were both one man operations with no one to carry on. Lustercoat is no longer available. On the upside I see people using water base poly urethane over 3/4 oz fiberglass with good results and the plans are still available on Outerzone.