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Walkway lines painted on upper wings. Now can start to weather the upper and lower wings |
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Very nice work, where did you get those details from, thank you
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Israeli F16 dry transfers from tailor made decals
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In the process of weathering the top fuselage and placing dry transfers. This photo shows the grey perimeter cushion that interfaces between the conformational fuel tanks and the fuselage. I used grey heat shrink tubing to mimic this and contact adhesive to glue the tubing to the conformational fuel tank. Looks very close to the full-size |
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Originally Posted by roydefiant
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JMP UAT, fuel filter in place Anyway, I see your UAT has filter material..... Great job. Tassos |
Tassos, I agree there is some controversy on the use of fuel filters, especially if one filters your fuel and using a UAT with the capacity to act as a filter. Tight fit to place vertical and I actually debated whether to put the intairco filter inline. In the end I decided to go with the filter as it is a large capacity one with 6mm inlet/outlets.
soon will be spraying the matte clear on and will post pictures when I get the model done and outside. Tassos can you remind me, are you flying your F16 with tailerons and flaperons and when your flaps are down are they still functioning as flaperons or fixed and just tailerons working? thanks Roy |
Originally Posted by roydefiant
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Tassos, I agree there is some controversy on the use of fuel filters, especially if one filters your fuel and using a UAT with the capacity to act as a filter. Tight fit to place vertical and I actually debated whether to put the intairco filter inline. In the end I decided to go with the filter as it is a large capacity one with 6mm inlet/outlets.
soon will be spraying the matte clear on and will post pictures when I get the model done and outside. Tassos can you remind me, are you flying your F16 with tailerons and flaperons and when your flaps are down are they still functioning as flaperons or fixed and just tailerons working? thanks Roy All the best, Tassos |
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Conformational fuel tanks ready for matte clear coat |
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Originally Posted by roydefiant
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Painting has started.
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Klasskote paints. I will be using spray max 2K matte clear out of can to “dust” the model as soon as humidity drops a little
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Originally Posted by roydefiant
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Klasskote paints. I will be using spray max 2K matte clear out of can to “dust” the model as soon as humidity drops a little
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Most of my experience with klasskote is using the satin catalyst. Seems to lay down very well and if you want a gloss finish you can shoot your favorite clear coat over it. I use an HLVP detail gun. I find you have to increase the reducer above klasskote recommendation to spray well with my gun. Like around 30% paint, 30% satin catalyst and 40% reducer or even a little more.
I just picked up more klasskote paint with gloss catalyst for a new project so I’ll be spraying that soon. |
Hi roydefiant,
I do see you mounting a Jets Munt 250XBL for powering this marvel plane Just a thought on my experience with exactly this turbine - the standard factory default value for deceleration is fast - this setting let my turbine reliably to flame out when the THR stick was moved back fast ! I could easily reproduce this behaviour during ground runs - fast IS too fast for this motor !! I would strongly recommend to adjust the decelaration setting to slow or even very slow in order to avoid unpleasant flame outs when flying agressivly ! Regards Hans |
Thank you Hans for your insight into the 250XBL. I will take your advice and reprogram deceleration before maiden
Roy |
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