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| scigs30 | Guillows Series 600 - Cessna 180 | Parked | 05-Oct-10 00:57 |  | | Views : 1224 | |
| scigs30 | Guillows Series 600 - Cessna 180 | Build | 05-Oct-10 00:57 |  | | Views : 1557 | |
| scigs30 | Guillows Series 600 - Cessna 180 | Build | 05-Oct-10 00:57 |  | | Views : 1219 | | While I was awaiting for my Dumas Corsair to arrive, I decided to start on an easy and fast build. The wood was pretty good weighing in at 8-9 lb/ft. The notches were over-sized and the strip wood was 1/16th thick, would have been better if it was 1/20th. That's OK, I just sanded it down. The build went fast and as you can tell it is built per the plans with no mods. On Guillows porous wood, I like to use Testors Cement instead of Elmers Glue all, especially now after Elmers has changed their formula. My hobby store was out of Testors so I bought Sig-Ment instead. In all my years of building I have never tried this stuff. It worked great and dries clear, and that's important to me. I like to have a clean build with no glue showing for the pictures. Total weight so far as shown is 19 grams. I still have to do some fine sanding and will add some supports to prevent wrinkles when the tissue shrinks. I am not using the supplied tissue of gray and white.......Guillows what ever happened to the Blue and Yellow? Any way I am going to use Blue and Yellow Tissue to finish this plane. |
| CPN | Scratch Built Fokker D.VIII | Parked | 04-Oct-10 23:18 |  | | Views : 1929 | | Nest step is to add machine guns and a pilot. I will fly this if all this southern California rain we're having translates into some tall, soft grass. I am not going to hold my breath though. |
| CPN | Scratch Built Fokker D.VIII | Parked | 04-Oct-10 23:17 |  | | Views : 1919 | | I had to use three types of tissue on this stinker - domestic on the bottom of the wings, esaki on the tail feathers and silkspan everywhere else. For some reason, I could not get anyother kind of tissue to agree with this thing but the silkspan. Everything forward of the tail is sealed with two coats of flat clear dope. The red is airbrushed "italian red" acrylic and the white tail is designmaster floral paint. |
| CPN | Scratch Built Fokker D.VIII | Parked | 04-Oct-10 23:14 |  | | Views : 1934 | | Not scratch built, but a Sterling peanut scale. This was one of the harder builds I have done. Printwood, peanut and paraspol - the three p's of frustration. |
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