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Aircraft |
Category |
Date |
Preview |
| deckape | Guillows Series 800 - Bell P 39D Airacobra | Parked | 13-Apr-11 23:33 |  |
| Views : 1043 |
| A shot of the left side of the fuselage tommorow i wqill finish up the right side like the left side is. I have a lot of work ahead on the fuselage it will be shipshape in a day or two the stringers are starting to tighnen up now the butraite is kicking in. |
| deckape | Guillows Series 800 - Bell P 39D Airacobra | Parked | 13-Apr-11 23:31 |  |
| Views : 1001 |
| I went ahead and painted the left side of the fuselage olive drab all of the panel work is done when the fuselage is completely finished I will ink in the rest on my next build i will fill in the stringers with balsa sheets Before i painted the olive I airbrushed a coat of Butraite dope thinned with acetone so it should tightnen up with time the canopy needs a little cleaning up i will clean it up with some alchol. |
| deckape | Guillows Series 800 - Bell P 39D Airacobra | Parked | 13-Apr-11 19:48 |  |
| Views : 1053 |
| Installed the canopy to the fuselage assembly useing epoxie let dry then add some paneling detail then I will apply a coat of primer. |
| deckape | Guillows Series 800 - Bell P 39D Airacobra | Parked | 13-Apr-11 18:59 |  |
| Views : 1053 |
| Fuselage covering all finished After the covering a sprayed 5 coats of alchol and let dry, then 3 coats of Krylon clear when dry I will install the plastic pieces. then prime the fuselage for the finished coat |
| deckape | Guillows Series 800 - Bell P 39D Airacobra | Parked | 13-Apr-11 18:57 |  |
| Views : 1014 |
| Canopy all masked down ready for primmer coat |
| deckape | Guillows Series 800 - Bell P 39D Airacobra | Parked | 13-Apr-11 13:41 |  |
| Views : 1026 |
| Got the forward section of the fuselodge skined with silkspan, now working aft of the fuselodge should have this doine by this evening. I elected not to skin the assembly with card stock or /balsa sheets |
