RE: F-100 "Build" thread
Finally, he did the masking and painting of the major markings. Masks from Promark were used...
In the picture of the hot section, you can see the functional "turkey feathers" that are used to hold the cable for the drag chute in place. I made these with pieces of polyply. In the full-scale as well as the model, when the drag shute is packed and placed in the box, the attachment cable needs to be lead out of the box and around the fuse to the attach point at the base of the rudder. The cable is stuffed under these "turkey feathers" and stays there until the chute is released. It then pulls out from under them...
To this point in the build, I have probably 600 hours or so of labor into it. I'm sure Ron and his folks have quite a few as well. So much for it being an ARF [:@]