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Offline Clint Ormosen

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Chipmunk in base white
« on: February 18, 2008, 02:48:26 AM »
Are you all tired of Chipmunk posts yet? Take heart, we're getting near the end now. Hopefully the weather will hold out and I can get the trim on this thing.
The white lets me see all the places that needed more attention with the sand paper. Oh well, not too much I can do about it at this point. I'll get better at finishing with each new plane.
Take a gander.
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Re: Chipmunk in base white
« Reply #1 on: February 18, 2008, 03:13:33 AM »
Looks good Clint, glad to see you got all the problems with the primer etc. worked out.
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Re: Chipmunk in base white
« Reply #2 on: February 18, 2008, 10:39:52 AM »
Clint,

Looks good to me.
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Re: Chipmunk in base white
« Reply #3 on: February 18, 2008, 10:57:00 AM »
HI CLint,

From those pictures, I wouldn't know there were any problems! ;D  It is going to be a nice one, for sure.
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Re: Chipmunk in base white
« Reply #4 on: February 18, 2008, 06:44:56 PM »
Quote from: Bill Little on February 18, 2008, 10:57:00 AM
HI CLint,

From those pictures, I wouldn't know there were any problems! ;D  It is going to be a nice one, for sure.


Don't let the pics fool you. There are little issues all over it. Those going to VSC will discover that it's a 10 footer at best.
But thanks for the kind words!
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Re: Chipmunk in base white
« Reply #5 on: February 18, 2008, 11:32:17 PM »
That's OK, Clint. We can put the Chip and the Cobra next to each other at VSC, stand back 10 feet and admire them both.
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Re: Chipmunk in base white
« Reply #6 on: February 19, 2008, 03:17:04 AM »
Quote from: Randy Powell on February 18, 2008, 11:32:17 PM
That's OK, Clint. We can put the Chip and the Cobra next to each other at VSC, stand back 10 feet and admire them both.

If it's ok with you, I'd like to have a picture of your Cobra with my Chipmunk.
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Re: Chipmunk in base white
« Reply #7 on: February 19, 2008, 11:44:41 AM »
Much as you note about the Chip, the Cobra looked a lot better in the pictures than it does live and in person. I'm sure there will be multiple photo-ops.  :)
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Re: Chipmunk in base white
« Reply #8 on: February 19, 2008, 03:53:49 PM »
Doesn't help that I've smacked the outboard tip on everything in the shop at least once. it's starting to look like a bag of walnuts. >:(
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Re: Chipmunk in base white
« Reply #9 on: February 19, 2008, 04:22:32 PM »
Only the outboard tip.  I think I have hit every thing on the Spitfire that can be hit.  At least I may not hide it behind the bush at the motel like I did the Nobler.  By the way the plane  is looking great.  DOC Holliday
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Re: Chipmunk in base white
« Reply #10 on: February 19, 2008, 05:11:14 PM »
Lookin' Real good Clint. Wish I was going the VSC.
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Re: Chipmunk in base white
« Reply #11 on: February 20, 2008, 08:00:12 AM »
Quote from: Clint Ormosen on February 19, 2008, 03:53:49 PM
Doesn't help that I've smacked the outboard tip on everything in the shop at least once. it's starting to look like a bag of walnuts. >:(
I usually crash my planes at lest once during the building of them. Thats probably why they look as bad as they do. My excuse is that I crash so often why make them look good. And a good looking plane crashes faster than an ugly one. Something to do with karma I think. LL~ LL~ LL~
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Re: Chipmunk in base white
« Reply #12 on: February 20, 2008, 08:29:51 AM »
I love it guys! LL~  *WE* know where every *little* "wart" is on our models.  Every ding, dent, and goober. ;D  So to us, it can be varying degrees of *crap* when we look at it.  But, trust me, other than the guys doing the AP judging at the NATS, no one else is really going to see a LOT of what WE see as wrong.  So don't stress out (Like Brother Randy P! LOL!!) over the small stuff.  YOU] will even forget them after a while.
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Re: Chipmunk in base white
« Reply #13 on: February 20, 2008, 11:52:43 AM »
>>I think I have hit every thing on the Spitfire that can be hit.<<

Well, that is one advantage to having a high ceiling and a spread out shop. I don't tend to hit stuff with the plane. On the other hand, I usually leave the plane in the jig stand from the time it's actually in one piece, more or less, to when the last coat of clear goes on. When I ding them is when I'm walking around them. I must have hammered the tip of the rudder on the USA-1 I built 50 times before I finally just cut the end off and put a piece of hardwood on ...  then ran into it 10 more times. At least it stayed in one piece after that. Them pointy rudders can be a killer.
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Re: Chipmunk in base white
« Reply #14 on: February 20, 2008, 02:21:14 PM »
My problem is that my shop is too small to paint in. So every time, I have to walk the plane out through the messy garage and hang it up on open garage door to paint. Never fails that I bump it on something either going in or out of the shop door, no matter how careful I am. My plan is to get all the color on it, fix my wingtip dings, then clear the whole thing.
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Re: Chipmunk in base white
« Reply #15 on: February 21, 2008, 01:09:16 PM »
Hey Clint are you using my shop ~^ ~^ LL~
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