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Title: Jimmy got a new pair of shoes
Post by: jose modesto on March 26, 2010, 10:25:29 PM
Jim Damarel's RSM "Shoestring" 60oz Retro Discovery 60. lacquer and auto air waterbase paint.What a great corner.
Jose Modesto
Title: Re: Jimmy got a new pair of shoes
Post by: jose modesto on March 26, 2010, 10:27:16 PM
Additional photos
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Post by: wwwarbird on March 26, 2010, 10:32:28 PM
 That's really cool, and not yellow. Very nice. y1
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Post by: Glenn (Gravitywell) Reach on March 26, 2010, 11:32:25 PM
Can't go wrong with a Shoestring!  Very pretty! H^^
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Post by: Dennis Moritz on March 27, 2010, 03:32:20 AM
Jim can build! and fly!
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Post by: Clint Ormosen on March 27, 2010, 04:10:46 AM
I dig it!
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Post by: Bill Gruby on March 27, 2010, 05:55:25 AM
 Those colors look great together. Nice ride.

  "Billy G" y1
Title: Re: Jimmy got a new pair of shoes
Post by: Derek Barry on March 27, 2010, 08:59:33 AM
Very Cool. Tell Damarel I said hey!
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Post by: Joe Gilbert on March 27, 2010, 11:56:26 AM
Man that is one nice ride.
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Post by: Steve Fitton on March 27, 2010, 12:01:41 PM
Jim did an awesome job on that one!  I hope I can see it fly sometime at the contests!
How does the Retro work on it?
Title: Re: Jimmy got a new pair of shoes
Post by: Randy Powell on March 28, 2010, 12:09:16 AM
I like it. well, the original was red and chartreuse. I suppose the colors work.
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Post by: Dennis Adamisin on March 28, 2010, 05:30:21 AM
Jimmy done good.  Chartruese is an acquired taste, but I like that scheme.
Title: Re: Jimmy got a new pair of shoes
Post by: Paul Smith on March 28, 2010, 07:09:06 AM
Jimmy done good.  Chartruese is an acquired taste, but I like that scheme.

The color can look pretty good, if you recall Dorothy Hammel in the Olympics.
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Post by: john e. holliday on March 29, 2010, 06:03:25 AM
That looks so nice, hope it flies as well as it looks. H^^
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Post by: proparc on March 29, 2010, 12:39:20 PM
Is this the "Bill Simons" Shoestring, (the red one) that I remember, or a new Shoestring.
Title: Re: Jimmy got a new pair of shoes
Post by: Mike Ferguson on March 29, 2010, 12:46:10 PM
Is this the "Bill Simons" Shoestring, (the red one) that I remember, or a new Shoestring.

The original post said it was a RSM Shoestring, which is a Bob Whitely design.  (Although I think I remember reading somewhere that Bob W. based the design off of Bob Hunt's Saturn.)

Edit: Yep - read it here: http://stunthanger.com/smf/index.php?topic=8156.msg70329#msg70329
Title: Re: Jimmy got a new pair of shoes
Post by: Garf on March 29, 2010, 06:17:35 PM
What I would really like is a 40 sized Shoestring. Would I be better off scaling up a Goldberg Shoestring, or scaling down a RSM Shoestring?
Title: Re: Jimmy got a new pair of shoes
Post by: Bradley Walker on March 30, 2010, 08:36:50 AM
Jim Damarel's RSM "Shoestring" 60oz Retro Discovery 60. lacquer and auto air waterbase paint.What a great corner.
Jose Modesto

Love it!!!  I like the green...

What is auto air waterbase paint?
Title: Re: Jimmy got a new pair of shoes
Post by: Jim Damerell on March 30, 2010, 12:03:35 PM
AutoAir is a water borne paint used by artists and car painters. I used their base coat sealer (White) and mixed the chartruse from yellow and green, 10:1. Check out www.autoaircolors.com, they have more info and pictures than I can list.
Title: Re: Jimmy got a new pair of shoes
Post by: jose modesto on March 30, 2010, 02:18:43 PM
Hey Jim did you get another flight on That cat quick Shoestring?
I'm here still sweating haven't adjusted to the heat ,but have had some good flying wether so far,only if i could build (assemble)the ARF Nobler siting on the building table
Hey jimmy I'm doing the tiles in the Kitchen "boy is this fun"
 Photo:Jimmy here my piece of Paradise"flying field 400 yards away if i ever build it.
Jose Modesto
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Post by: Tom Niebuhr on March 31, 2010, 10:10:16 AM
Jim,

Great looking airplane, if you like the color.

I hope that you don't wear matching clothes.
Title: Re: Jimmy got a new pair of shoes
Post by: Jim Damerell on March 31, 2010, 10:24:50 AM
Tom,
Live with it! At least it's got wheel pants.
Jim D. S?P
Title: Re: Jimmy got a new pair of shoes
Post by: john e. holliday on March 31, 2010, 04:01:29 PM
I too like the color.  Glad Tom didn't see my Olympic. H^^
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Post by: Tom Niebuhr on April 01, 2010, 07:35:25 AM
Yep, the wheel pants are great.

But... Jimmy wearing Chartruese would be a sight that would out do Lampione!
Title: Re: Jimmy got a new pair of shoes
Post by: Geoff Goodworth on April 02, 2010, 01:20:29 AM
With all the discussion of the colour, is that more green than it should be?

I seem to recall that the paint used on the original was a standard Cadillac colour. Also, I think the instruction sheet for the Goldberg model says that a close approximation of the actual colour is 7 parts Cub Yellow and 1 part a green that I cannot remember.

Anybody have a Goldberg kit that they can check for us? I didn't scan the instructions after I finished with the Goldberg kits some years ago.  HB~>

Cheers

Geoff
Title: Re: Jimmy got a new pair of shoes
Post by: Ward Van Duzer on April 02, 2010, 11:09:18 AM
For a .40 sized version, consider using a Cavalier wing...


W.
Title: Re: Jimmy got a new pair of shoes
Post by: Geoff Goodworth on April 03, 2010, 05:36:36 AM
Ward, not that I want to argue but given that the scale wing is Aspect Ratio 5.49 with straight lines for the LE and TE and simple radii at the tips, I don't understand why people mess about with compound radius tips.

It seems to me that the scale wing is close to ideal.

Cheers, Geoff
Title: Re: Jimmy got a new pair of shoes
Post by: Gordon Tarbell on April 03, 2010, 06:15:31 AM
I got an old set of Goldberg instructions right here. It says Chartreuse (mix 8 parts cub yellow with 1 part cessna green) . Painted mine that way and I liked it. The original was painted a Cadillac factory chartreuse (1956) I think. Not an exact match to the Goldberg formula but close.
Title: Re: Jimmy got a new pair of shoes
Post by: john e. holliday on April 03, 2010, 10:04:30 AM
I shouldn't say this I suppose, but that has never stopped e yet.  Who says it has to be scale colors?  Of all the CG Shoestrings I have built, (six at one session) none have ever been the scale color.  The plane looks great to me. #^ #^ #^ #^ S?P H^^
Title: Re: Jimmy got a new pair of shoes
Post by: Larry Cunningham on April 03, 2010, 02:56:44 PM
I like it. The colors do work, particularly if you've owned a Kawasaki motocrosser..
Water based paint, I like that idea..

Hello and best wishes to Jim Damarel, famed star of Windy Videos.  <=

L.

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