While I've been building up the courage to try flying this thing, I figured I'd take the time to try out some weathering techniques and personalize it a bit. I basically dampened the surface of the plane, used an x-acto knife to scrape a black pastel chalk while holding it over the damp area, then experimented with smearing it with brushes, paper towels, q-tips, and fingers. Lightly nicking the foam with the blade while leaving the silver outer surface hanging made a nice approximation of punctured metal. I coated it with a matte clear coat to keep it all in place. Maybe slightly over-done, but like I said, I was trying out different things - I think it will show better from the air if it's more exaggerated too. I also hooked a servo up to the top turret and linked it to the rudder. To help with cooling I cut the small side windows on the cockpit and opened them like vent windows, opened a pane of the dorsal window, and cut louvers into the plastic cover over the elevator servo. Of course, with all my sweat equity, now I'm even more nervous about trying it out.
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UMX: B-17, PT-17, P-47, A-10, Habu. E-Flite: Sportsman, Timber, Spitfire, P-47. Flyzone f-86 64 mm, Dynam Albatros, Flyzone Zero Select, Freewing B-17, Hobby Zone F4-U Corsair -
Wow that looks great nice job on that one. This plane flies very well and stable you will love the flight as well as the looks. -
Looks good Chopper!Comment
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Fantastic weathering.AMA 424553Comment
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Well done!!Comment
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I couldn't agree more the weathering is excellent.
Martin.Comment
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Get her up man
Shes to pretty to just be sitting around
We know you can do it. Just double check,range check and go
Itll be fine. Iclude us with a video.Dewey lComment
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That looks awesome!Comment
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Just in time for this plane to be discontinued I managed to break 2 of my props. Does anyone know if it's feasible to adapt props from another application to this one? I sincerely hate to see this thing taking up space as a paper weight....UMX: B-17, PT-17, P-47, A-10, Habu. E-Flite: Sportsman, Timber, Spitfire, P-47. Flyzone f-86 64 mm, Dynam Albatros, Flyzone Zero Select, Freewing B-17, Hobby Zone F4-U CorsairComment
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The Air Epic/ Taft Hobbies B-25 props will work...if you can find them.Originally posted by chopper View PostComment
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You can always use a close approximation from another model or a "generic" prop.
Look on the prop blades and there should be numbers. Generally you'll find in the form of XX-YY-B-CC or XXYY-B-C Where XX is diameter, YY is pitch, B is blade count (often not there, since you can easily count blades) and C is a specialty code (no code is in effect no specialty)
Decimals may or may not be in the code. 8.5 inch diameter can be 08. 085 or 85. (just to help confuse you. The numbers just have to be unique enough to be different from other props by the same maker)
Measure from center of hub (center of the drilled hole) to a prop tip. Double that This should equal XX in either SAE or Metric. That tells you which to use.
Sometimes the first number you find is a part number and has nothing to do with measure of the prop. The pitch and diameter should then be on a different blade. Many makers put the metric on one blade, SAE on another and the part number in any convenient place (like a 3rd blade)
Then start looking for the same diameter and pitch and same number of blades. Try to find one that looks much the same and comes from a similar model. Its really nice when you find your exact prop used on a different model by the same manufacturer. Just because they discontinued the model, doesn't mean they discontinued the prop.FF gliders and rubber power since 1966, CL 1970-1990, RC since 1975.
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