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Title: SL3 in paint
Post by: Scott Richlen on September 13, 2011, 06:27:37 PM
Here is my SL3 in paint.  Next is some additional trim and touch-up and then ink-lining.  This is the 2nd revision of my original Silver Lancer (thus SL3).

Scott
Title: Re: SL3 in paint
Post by: Clint Ormosen on September 13, 2011, 07:05:49 PM
Pretty slick design. Air racer meets Warbird. I like it. Fuse or wing gear?
Title: Re: SL3 in paint
Post by: W.D. Roland on September 13, 2011, 08:53:05 PM
Bill Barns lives on....
Title: Re: SL3 in paint
Post by: Glenn (Gravitywell) Reach on September 13, 2011, 09:04:57 PM
Yeah, pretty nice but will you use the retractable floats? H^^
Title: Re: SL3 in paint
Post by: Scott Richlen on September 15, 2011, 03:58:17 PM
I have the plans.  I just need to write the article.  A while back.... Bob Hunt urged me to publish it when he was editor of Flying Models, so I put the plans together for the Silver Lancer.  But never got to the point of writing the article.  However, I didn't forget and eventually did photos and stuff of the SL2 when I built that.  Of course, by then Bob was editor of Model Aviation.  Well, I have now drawn up the plans for the SL3 and Bob is editor of Stunt News.  So...

Bill Barnes forever!!!!  

Oh yeah, it has wing mounted gear.  Sorry, I couldn't figure out how to make a retractable float (obviously, someone has been looking at those old magazine articles and graphics...)
Title: Re: SL3 in paint
Post by: PerttiMe on September 16, 2011, 02:17:39 AM
There used to be some good pages on Bill Barnes at http://home.att.net/~dannysoar4/newgoodguy.htm but the page is not opening for me now.


Title: Re: SL3 in paint
Post by: W.D. Roland on September 16, 2011, 09:43:39 AM
Ah!
Thought I had misspelled 'Barnes'

Cool airplane Scott! H^^

Weight/area?
Title: Re: SL3 in paint
Post by: Scott Richlen on September 16, 2011, 04:37:29 PM
Don't know the finished weight on this one, but both the original SL and the SL-2 weighed 65 ounces.  Both had foam wings.  I stuffed a PA-61 into SL-2 and it made quite an improvement.  SL-3 has a built-up wing and will have a PA-61 also.

Scott