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Building Tips and technical articles. => Paint and finishing => Topic started by: roger on June 25, 2010, 06:02:06 PM
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anybody ever try these? and where do i get them?
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Roger ,
Check in the Classified forum , on this site .
Under "Windancer Models" (Bill Sawyer) .
Best of luck ,
Rob K.
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I have used leather fillets on a couple of my models and like them. I got some from Bill Sawyer and some from Walter Umland.
I don't have an e mail address for either, but you should be able to get that info in the members column.
Best of luck,
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i went thre and saw no leather!!!!!
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Just buy them from Bill or Walter. Support the people who support the hobby. Bill includes instructions on how to install them. He uses CA but I have had luck applying them with thinned Tite-Bond. 8)
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i went thre and saw no leather!!!!!
Roger,
Try this link:
http://www.freemansupply.com/FreemanLeatherFill.htm
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Tight wads like me. Always trying to save pennies and then spend dollars to fix. LL~ LL~ LL~Really we need to support our suppliers. H^^
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Leather fillets do work great. As do fillets made from balsa! (of course, the balsa takes more time and patience). The leather fillets are real easy to work with. Titebond, CA, Ambroids, Elmer's Glue All, Duco, etc., etc., will glue them on! Take you time where the fillets meet on the LE of the wing and stab, fitting the two end pieces together nicely isn't hard, but could be tricky the first time you use them. They look really good, are easy to apply, and accept all types of paint.
The leather fillets (IMHO) are great on OTS planes, and such! They really look good on them. I do use the blue Super Fil (I *think* that is the correct name, the jars are in the basement! LOL!!) since I feel it is a stronger fillet on my bigger planes. Maybe, maybe not! LL~ But it is an epoxy like material and seems like it should be stronger to me, but I ain't no "injuneer", or scientific type! LL~ LL~
Big Bear
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I used Bill Sawyer's (windancer) leather fillets on this little (35.5" span) profile scale model. Attached them with Duco cement at both the wing/fuselage joints and wing/nacelles joints. They worked great...are inexpensive...and, as noted above, come with complete instructions.
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I used Bill Sawyer's (windancer) leather fillets on this little (35.5" span) profile scale model. Attached them with Duco cement at both the wing/fuselage joints and wing/nacelles joints. They worked great...are inexpensive...and, as noted above, come with complete instructions.
Uncle Mikey!
WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN HIDING? ;D Great to see you here, and you, and the plane, look great.
A Vietnam era A-26?
*Coach*
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Bill:
I haven't been hiding...just been more involved with artwork than modeling lately. Yes, that's a Vietnam-era A-26. It's a Pat King design (plans available from him) representing the ones flown by the 609th Special Operations Squadron based at Nakhon Phanom, Thailand, c.1968-69.
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I've reported on leather fillets several times. I've found the best way to install them is by first wetting the leather, then glue them down with Ambroid. When the Ambroid sets, the leather is still somewhat wet. At that point, burnish them with a round tool, such as a ball bearing welded to a scrap of steel. This makes the leather truly concave, which looks better. A bit of Brodak filler, applied thickly with a brush, will blend in the edges.
Floyd
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I've reported on leather fillets several times. I've found the best way to install them is by first wetting the leather, then glue them down with Ambroid. When the Ambroid sets, the leather is still somewhat wet. At that point, burnish them with a round tool, such as a ball bearing welded to a scrap of steel. This makes the leather truly concave, which looks better. A bit of Brodak filler, applied thickly with a brush, will blend in the edges.
Floyd
Great tip, Floyd. Never thought about wetting the leather! Learn new all the time. ;D
Big Bear