Almost got my repaint finished up today, just waiting for some more paint for touch ups and a nose art decal. She will be finished as Robin Old's Scat II. Base coated the model with 2 coats of varathane, and painted with testors spray cans and model master airbrush paints.
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Originally posted by rifleman_btx View PostSweet! I like it!
Looks like a less than 4 hour drive for you. It would be great to put more real faces with names.
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Originally posted by F106DeltaDart View PostFinally got my P-38 back in the air after the repaint work. Also got my nose art decal from Callie. Scat II is officially ready! Flew great as always, but I think I need a bit of extra nose weight. Seemed to be a tad tail heavy during the flight.
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Well, three flights after the repaint, I bid farewell to my P-38 at Warbirds Over Grapevine. I'm honestly still not sure exactly what happened that caused the crash. After my first flight that seemed a bit tail heavy, I added 47g in the nose to get the CG in the correct position. I took off, and had a great flight. Flew stable as always, and handled much better with the added nose weight. After about 3 patterns, I realized I forgot to set my timer (couldn't have been up more than 3 minutes), I dropped the gear and made my approach. At about 100 ft as I leveled off for final, the aircraft did a hard wingover to the left and headed for the small road behind the field. I recovered from the spin about 20 ft above the road, leveled out, and gunned the throttle to get it back up to altitude. As soon as I punched throttle, it did the same thing again and went nose first into the concrete. Aircraft is totaled from the nose back to the booms, both batteries taco'ed as well. After many hours of painting, customizing, and even machining special metal reinforcements for the props, I am a bit dismayed to say the least, and I don't think I'll get another one. After 40 flights without any issues at all, I'm clueless to what exactly happened, possibly single engine/batt failure? Had plenty of speed and was almost level at the time, so a stall doesn't seem likely to me. The only bright side is that I now have space on the airplane rack now, there may be an FMS Tigercat to take its place in the future..
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