Mine flew ok, on the kit-wood but I cut a lot of it away to lighten things up.
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It mostly has gone away. It looks pretty good after an over night of drying time, and the seems are almost invisiable. I like it.
I going to get a hair dryer today, I have been told that comes in handy when doing these things.
The other side came out better; I made some strategic relief cuts and pulled the tissue tighter, a little trick with wet tissue. It is turning out to be one of the best covering jobs I have done yet. Not that I have do a whole lot of them.
Let’s see I think it’s my 4th one.
I built a Gulliows little Stuka in about 1977, which lasted about 3 flights before being completely demolished.
1998 I nearly built a Peck Polymer Andreason but painted with Testors Cream out of spray can and the paint never dried.
2008 I built another Peck Andreason, which came out pretty good, but I built it wrong and, while it might fly I can’t get the rubber motor inside the airplane.
out smarted myself.
And now this Hellcat, which was a test to see if I simply could do it. There is definately a craft and an art to building one of these, well.
Hopefully I will get the wing covered this evening.
I am trying a new technique with covering. I have always done it with dope, stick the tissue on with dope and seal it up with dope. I started to do it on this one two, did the tail with the dope method. However, I am not that happy with the results.
The fuselage I did in three sections, by laying down wet tissue (the kit tissue) and using 50/50 white glue and water. It seems to have worked out much better.
I am planing on going back and air brushing 50% thinned dope.
I going to get a hair dryer today, I have been told that comes in handy when doing these things.
The other side came out better; I made some strategic relief cuts and pulled the tissue tighter, a little trick with wet tissue. It is turning out to be one of the best covering jobs I have done yet. Not that I have do a whole lot of them.
Let’s see I think it’s my 4th one.
I built a Gulliows little Stuka in about 1977, which lasted about 3 flights before being completely demolished.
1998 I nearly built a Peck Polymer Andreason but painted with Testors Cream out of spray can and the paint never dried.
2008 I built another Peck Andreason, which came out pretty good, but I built it wrong and, while it might fly I can’t get the rubber motor inside the airplane.
out smarted myself.And now this Hellcat, which was a test to see if I simply could do it. There is definately a craft and an art to building one of these, well.
Hopefully I will get the wing covered this evening.
I am trying a new technique with covering. I have always done it with dope, stick the tissue on with dope and seal it up with dope. I started to do it on this one two, did the tail with the dope method. However, I am not that happy with the results.
The fuselage I did in three sections, by laying down wet tissue (the kit tissue) and using 50/50 white glue and water. It seems to have worked out much better.
I am planing on going back and air brushing 50% thinned dope.