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Just look at it...
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I sprayed the canopy with blue, gold, and silver metal flake mixed in with Lite Coat. It looked great. I wish I left it like this. After I sprayed a little candy apple blue on it, it lost alot of clarity. Live and learn I guess.
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I've never liked the look of bare wire landing gear on a stunt plane. So I made some using 1/8" hard balsa with the grain facing the landing gear wire, and sandwiched it in between two 1/16" plywood caps with the grain making an 'X' pattern, then fiberglassed them for strength.
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Samich...
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Shaping…
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Filing, sanding and painting, silver then white...
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...then yellow
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...then ink...
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...then decals and Sig Lite Coat.
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...then wheel and hubcaps. Hey if you're to slow to out run the enemy, maybe the hubcaps will hypnotize them and cause them to crash.
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Good enough
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Every plane I build has its own set of lines and a matching handle & line reel. Anything else is nonsense.
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That's pretty good for her first time spray painting, but of course she had a good teacher.😁
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Line reel. Just look at it.
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Look at the tiger on this decal sheet. Psh. Unreal.🙄
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⬇️Go with these.
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Gorhams verses Wrights silver polish. After doing a side by side comparison, the Wright's left a deep shine that was hard to tell the difference from the Gorhams.
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The nice part of 35 sized airplanes is they can be wet sanded and polished in no time.
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If you build a P40, printing off a few copies of these may help to lay out your paint designs on.
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Adjustable rudder detail.
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What are you doing?🧐 Sanding/Polishing and engraving the muffler? It sure is shiny!😁
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17 gram onboard video camera. Look how the gold metal flake sparkles on the canopy.😁
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The Candy Apple Blue really makes the canopy pop in this picture. The blue, gold and silver metal flake sprayed over it doesn't look bad either.
Whenever I see a buffed out lacquer finish on a stunt plane, I just like to look at it. And then I like to say "It sure is Shiny!"
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Rosalie and her P40.
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One last thing...A blast from the past: 44 years ago I recall watching this movie as a kid, and was fascinated by the P40 Warhawk ever since. Here's the the full movie. Enjoy!
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