Official FlightLine RC 1600mm F7F-3 Tigercat Thread

[davegee]

Nice job, Dan!

Cheers

davegee

[Grossman56]

Actually, it went extremely easy, in about ten minutes I went from this...


To this...


So, now I'll give it a couple of coats of Varathane to harden it up and fine sand it, also fill in the slight damage and it should be good!

Grossman56
(Dangerous Dan)

[Grossman56]

Exactly. Where I made my mistake is throwing out the old nacelles, the noses were gone but the tails were perfect,:confounded::confounded:

[jetfool]

Good progress Dan. I have a scrap box of foam and another of scrap balsa for my wood planes. Never know when a rebuild might be needed.
Keep on Truck'in
Best Regards, Rex

[Grossman56]

Started in on the portside wing, got the new gear door installed and a little filling where needed. This side is not as bad as the other, the major surgery is the end of the nacelle. I cut a piece of foam down to approximate size with lots of room for error and glued it on, let the glue dry and did some filling at the joint.



Lots of sanding coming my way.

[Grossman56]

Yep, I have one and will check everything out, but its the connection boxes in the wing and the fuse that concerns me.
BTW, here's a video on laminating a foam airplane, has anyone tried this??

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOqkUmWkrmI

Grossman56
(Dangerous Dan)

[davegee]

Now, a lot of the flaws will be covered with the multiple layers of clear and wet sanding and it will be getting another coat of pearl as well (maybe more than one) but so far, I'm amazed at how well its going.
Goes to show you what can be done.

Grossman56
(Dangerous Dan)

Coming along great, Dan! Personally, if it was me, I'd take a servo tester just to check each servo is working correctly before getting too far down the road for the rebuild. If you need to use one, I have one you can borrow.

Cheers

Davegee

[Grossman56]

Now, a lot of the flaws will be covered with the multiple layers of clear and wet sanding and it will be getting another coat of pearl as well (maybe more than one) but so far, I'm amazed at how well its going.
Goes to show you what can be done.

Grossman56
(Dangerous Dan)

[Grossman56]

Keeping in mind that this is where I started:



After many hours and lots of cups of cold coffee:



The starboard wing looks pretty good! So today was the big test, will it all fit together now....

So, I'm debating on the next step. I should make sure all the systems are working which would involve assembling the airplane, binding it and testing. Or I go on faith that all is well, .

Realizing that disassembly would shortly follow.....

Grossman56
(Dangerous Dan)

[jetfool]

Dangerous,
Fantastic! Funny what a little thought and time can turn out. Your going to have a beautiful Puddy Cat when done.
Best Regards, Rex

[Elbee]

Danger, coming along nicely, Sir. You do good work. Best, LB

[Grossman56]

So, as you may recall, I started like this:





Now, it's like this:











It has one coat of Pearl on it which gives it a strange greeny color, but no big deal, next I'll give it another coat then add the final silver grey on it, this will also help fill in any imperfections. Finally, about six coats of Varathane, sand and repeat as necessary. Before assembly, I'll paint in the exhaust stacks and the chrome pieces. Much easier to do before assembly.

Grossman56
(Dangerous Dan)

[Grossman56]

If what they say about idol hands is true, I guess I'm safe!
Oh yeah, pictures, hang on a moment, I'll go take some.....

[davegee]

The nacelle I posted pics of in #2351 has really come along A lot of sanding and filling then priming resanding, filling, coating with Varathane, sanding and smoothing. Today, I gave it its first coat of Pearlescense paint. I had great success with the Bearcat by applying the Pearl before the main color so I thought I'd try it here. Pics coming maybe tomorrow. In the meantime, over at design quarters, I've been working on the Cheyenne tail turret for Dave, after doing a complete design, basically to figure out just how to attempt it for real, I redesigned just the very rear, making some changes and using the experience from the first attempt. Will get together with Dave and hash out dimensions this weekend.

Looks pretty good to me!
So many projects, oh did I mention the Christmas village is going up as well (about 60 houses on five big white tables) which is a three day affair and Christmas lights this weekend. Dang!

Grossman56
(Dangerous Dan)

I hope they haven't found out about all your hidden talents for doing miniature projects! If so, they'll probably make you "project manager" for the whole 60 houses on 5 white tables! Maybe you could make it an airport type setting, and add your Tigercat as a repair project during the Korean War. Then, you could fake working on the Christmas project and instead fix your Tigercat. If anyone complains, just tell them you ARE working on the Christmas village project, it's just that it takes place at an airport. I bet they would LOVE that!!

davegee

[jetfool]

Dan,
What do you do in your spare time? Lol
Ain't life grand.
Best Regards, Rex

[Grossman56]

The nacelle I posted pics of in #2351 has really come along A lot of sanding and filling then priming resanding, filling, coating with Varathane, sanding and smoothing. Today, I gave it its first coat of Pearlescense paint. I had great success with the Bearcat by applying the Pearl before the main color so I thought I'd try it here. Pics coming maybe tomorrow. In the meantime, over at design quarters, I've been working on the Cheyenne tail turret for Dave, after doing a complete design, basically to figure out just how to attempt it for real, I redesigned just the very rear, making some changes and using the experience from the first attempt. Will get together with Dave and hash out dimensions this weekend.

Looks pretty good to me!
So many projects, oh did I mention the Christmas village is going up as well (about 60 houses on five big white tables) which is a three day affair and Christmas lights this weekend. Dang!

Grossman56
(Dangerous Dan)

[davegee]

I can see this airplane flying next Spring!

Cheers

Davegee

[jetfool]

Fantastic Dan! This is what I like to see, the dirty work before the resurrection. looking ugh,great.
Best Regards, Rex

[Elbee]

Grossman56

Amazing repair work, Danger.

You got skills, Brother.

Best, LB

[Grossman56]

A little update to the re rebuild.

Bottom of the starboard wing, just started filling in the cracks and wrinkles. What I do is hollow out a slot where the wrinkle is and fill with E6000 as you can see just below the outer flap.
I added more E6000 to the blemish beside the radiator intake and sanded a little on the wingtip around the nav light. Once the glue is dry, I'll give it a coat of Krylon Foam Primer so I get an idea of what it cooks like in one solid color. If needed, I'll fill and sand, then wet sand the whole thing.


Upper side of the same wing, all ready for some wet sanding. The line in the inner flap is where I glued the two parts together, they weren't quite broken, so I glued the underside with Foam Tac and slightly 'troughed' out the upper and applied E6000.
Some minor repair work to the flaps, they were just glued on this morning as I had to wait for the Foam Tac to arrive.

Second layer of spackle applied and drying. There was some separation between the two halves and one side was slightly pushed inwards, so I hollowed out the space between the two sides applied E6000 and held them in proper place as I inserted a toothpick to hold it there 'til the glue dries.


Slightly different angle. All that open area is really just the glue in the crack. As you can see, there is a fair amount of filling and sanding yet to be done, but it's more time consuming than difficult.
Got some batteries all charged up and was backing the truck out when I saw the dang wind was up again:confounded::confounded:.

Oh well, welcome to Cody.

Grossman56
(Dangerous Dan)