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Building Tips and technical articles. => Building techniques => Topic started by: Clint Ormosen on February 18, 2008, 02:48:26 AM
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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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Looks good Clint, glad to see you got all the problems with the primer etc. worked out.
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Clint,
Looks good to me.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Lookin' Real good Clint. Wish I was going the VSC.
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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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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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>>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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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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Hey Clint are you using my shop ~^ ~^ LL~