Author Topic: Jimmy got a new pair of shoes (Read 4188 times)

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

jose modesto · « **Reply #1 on:** March 26, 2010, 10:27:16 PM »

Additional photos

wwwarbird · « **Reply #2 on:** March 26, 2010, 10:32:28 PM »

That's really cool, and not yellow. Very nice.

Glenn (Gravitywell) Reach · « **Reply #3 on:** March 26, 2010, 11:32:25 PM »

Can't go wrong with a Shoestring! Very pretty!

Dennis Moritz · « **Reply #4 on:** March 27, 2010, 03:32:20 AM »

Jim can build! and fly!

Clint Ormosen · « **Reply #5 on:** March 27, 2010, 04:10:46 AM »

I dig it!

Bill Gruby · « **Reply #6 on:** March 27, 2010, 05:55:25 AM »

Those colors look great together. Nice ride.

"Billy G"

Derek Barry · « **Reply #7 on:** March 27, 2010, 08:59:33 AM »

Very Cool. Tell Damarel I said hey!

Joe Gilbert · « **Reply #8 on:** March 27, 2010, 11:56:26 AM »

Man that is one nice ride.

Steve Fitton · « **Reply #9 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?

Randy Powell · « **Reply #10 on:** March 28, 2010, 12:09:16 AM »

I like it. well, the original was red and chartreuse. I suppose the colors work.

Dennis Adamisin · « **Reply #11 on:** March 28, 2010, 05:30:21 AM »

Jimmy done good. Chartruese is an acquired taste, but I like that scheme.

Paul Smith · « **Reply #12 on:** March 28, 2010, 07:09:06 AM »

Quote from: Dennis Adamisin on March 28, 2010, 05:30:21 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.

john e. holliday · « **Reply #13 on:** March 29, 2010, 06:03:25 AM »

That looks so nice, hope it flies as well as it looks.

proparc · « **Reply #14 on:** March 29, 2010, 12:39:20 PM »

Is this the "Bill Simons" Shoestring, (the red one) that I remember, or a new Shoestring.

Mike Ferguson · « **Reply #15 on:** March 29, 2010, 12:46:10 PM »

Quote from: 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.

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

Garf · « **Reply #16 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?

Bradley Walker · « **Reply #17 on:** March 30, 2010, 08:36:50 AM »

Quote from: 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

Love it!!! I like the green...

What is auto air waterbase paint?

Jim Damerell · « **Reply #18 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.

jose modesto · « **Reply #19 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

Tom Niebuhr · « **Reply #20 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.

Jim Damerell · « **Reply #21 on:** March 31, 2010, 10:24:50 AM »

Tom,
Live with it! At least it's got wheel pants.
Jim D.

john e. holliday · « **Reply #22 on:** March 31, 2010, 04:01:29 PM »

I too like the color. Glad Tom didn't see my Olympic.

Tom Niebuhr · « **Reply #23 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!

Geoff Goodworth · « **Reply #24 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.

Cheers

Geoff

Ward Van Duzer · « **Reply #25 on:** April 02, 2010, 11:09:18 AM »

For a .40 sized version, consider using a Cavalier wing...

W.

Geoff Goodworth · « **Reply #26 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

Gordon Tarbell · « **Reply #27 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.

john e. holliday · « **Reply #28 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.

Larry Cunningham · « **Reply #29 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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