Thanks Dan! Very good to know. How do you guys cover these kits and what do you use to adhere the covering? What power?
For the past year I have been so busy at work that I have no time to fly but I can build in the late evenings, so I am building some planes for the grand kids. The Guillow kits might really appeal to my oldest...my only one interested in building/putting things together.
Thanks fellas,
Steve
Guillow's kits can be built several ways, as can most small kits. It just depends on how much work you want to put into it, and what method of power you are going to use. Years ago at a local indoor session, Tom Stark had two models of the Douglas Dauntless from the Comet kit. One was built as per plans and instructions supplied with the kit, and kit wood. Nice looking model and it flew OK. Then he had another one that was lightened considerably! Contest wood, lightened structure throughout, less detail and finish. It flew more than double the duration.
The advantage of the Guillow's kits is the extra vacu-formed details that you can use or discard as you see fit. To build one for C/L scale requires some extra wood, engineering and effort. Chris McMillin and his son Jeremiah did the large Focke-Wulf 190 from the Guillow's large WW-2 line for Jeremiah to fly in Scale at the NATS one year. It was powered by a Fuji .09 as I recall, with a 3 line control system for throttle. They added some thin planking to the fuselage and wings where it was needed and the paint job was Tamiya acrylics with DuPont 380 clear over it. It came out quite nice and flew quite well and I think Jeremiah won or at least placed in Junior Scale at the NATS that year. I hope Chris sees this and fills in where I may have remembered things wrong.
The Guillow's kits are just like any other kit, your result is a direct reflection of how much work you put into it.. You just have to know what you are going to do with it when you crack open the shrink wrap on one. Either make it a super detailed display model, which they do quite nicely for, or to the other end of the spectrum, a nice, light flying model.
Type at you later,
Dan McEntee