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05-30-2009, 04:08 PM
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| Looking good. Yea, start at the trailing edge and wrap back to it. To reduce the chance of warping evenly wet the tissue with a sprayer and pin it down to the board. You don't have to penetrate the wing. Insert the pins at an angle so they are touching the wing preventing any edge from lifting while it dries. I wouldn't cut through the center section until the wings are doped. Then you can cut and adjust dihedral. Always work top and bottom simultaneously as the shrinkage of one without the other will warp it into a big potato chip. |
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05-30-2009, 06:27 PM
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| Great progress Charles - definitely real modelling! Last time I did it, I gave up, as a neighbours brat of a young girl punched her fingers through all the tissue on the wings of a model ready for its first powered flight -could have strangled her! Never touched one since!(flying model that is, not a brat!)
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05-30-2009, 06:36 PM
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| Excellent, Mr. C. Just excellent. I'm looking forward to more. 
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05-30-2009, 08:05 PM
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| We've put the Rufe to bed for the night, but, as promised, here's a couple more pic's. All the parts are constructed, covered and have been given at least one coat of the 50/50 clear dope. The below pic's show a dry fit..... wings and stabilizer, to the fuselage. Oh.... stuck the cowling on just for good measure. Next step is to lightly sand all the parts, and two more coats of the 50/50. Then we can assemble and start working on the three bladed prop and the canopy. Cheers.... edit.... oops  didn't realize the first pic is out of focus. Guess the camera zero'd in on the box !Charles
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05-30-2009, 08:52 PM
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05-30-2009, 09:34 PM
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| Wonderful Charles!Starting to really take shape.
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05-31-2009, 01:53 AM
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| looks very good Charles
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05-31-2009, 04:15 AM
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| Excellent Charles! 
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05-31-2009, 05:41 AM
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| Looking awsome Charles!!!
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05-31-2009, 11:12 AM
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| Amazing 
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05-31-2009, 05:29 PM
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| Wonderful Charles. 
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06-01-2009, 02:37 AM
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| Looks fantastic! 
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06-02-2009, 10:48 AM
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| Looking good Charles! |
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06-02-2009, 04:38 PM
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| Don't know if this will be of any use Charles. I came across it whilst looking for something else, and sorry about the quality, but it was scanned from a very small half-tone. It's from the Heinz J. Nowarra Collection, BTW.
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06-02-2009, 08:26 PM
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| Thanks for the pic, Airframes. It's a good shot of the tail. Last night I attached the wing and the elevator to the fuselage. I knew that today there would be a lot of work done with the fuselage upside-down, so I held off on the rudder. Today I attached the main float and the wing floats. This will dry overnight, and tomorrow I will do the main float rear braces, the rudder and the cowling. The area of the fuselage, aft of the wing needs some attention. This was the area where I did not like the way the wing mated to the fuselage. Charles
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