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| bobgood, Comment for image # 43252 | 16 Jun 21 11:22 |
| Hopefully it will be HW, if I can make or find some mini hinges! |
| heywooood, Comment for image # 43252 | 16 Jun 21 07:29 |
| Hey Bob - is that cabin door functional? |
| heywooood, Comment for image # 43252 | 16 Jun 21 07:28 |
| Spackle is what I use for this as well. DD recommended the Sherwin Williams shrink-free stuff so that’s what I generally use. With a few top coats of Deluxe Sand N Seal to harden, seal, and microfill the surface of the model. |
| bobgood, Comment for image # 43252 | 15 Jun 21 11:52 |
| Thank you chaps! Don, the skin is generally 3/32" with some difficult areas being 1/8" or even 1/4" - lots of sanding down and smoothing off going on. And a few small gaps appear, from somewhere, from time to time! I have used (as an experiment) household "spackle" as a filler, it is much easier to sand down than the the model filler that I have. |
| Don C, Comment for image # 43252 | 15 Jun 21 11:40 |
| That is sure looking good. How thick is the balsa skin?
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| jgood, Comment for image # 43252 | 15 Jun 21 09:08 |
| Looking great, Dad! |
| bsadonkill, Comment for image # 43251 | 15 Jun 21 06:29 |
| F.A.I. Supply sells a light Polyspan. They also sell different color dies for it. |
| bobgood, Comment for image # 43252 | 14 Jun 21 21:18 |
| 105 degrees here In Joshua Tree today - still in breakfast room..... |
| bobgood, Image # 43252 | 14 Jun 21 21:16 |
A little more to the fuselarge skin done today. |
| bobgood, Comment for image # 43251 | 14 Jun 21 21:13 |
| Thanks Guys! I'll have a look around! |
| Don C, Comment for image # 43251 | 14 Jun 21 11:50 |
| Try Ebay. I've seen some there. I bought the remainder of the stock when our LHS went out of business, but it's getting low. I use the Sig brand too. Plane looks great.
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| bobgood, Comment for image # 43251 | 14 Jun 21 09:29 |
| Thanks to both of the Ed's - I will look at Plyspan, I would like a medium heavy covering to give a "fabric" covered look to the A/C. |
| edbecky, Comment for image # 43251 | 14 Jun 21 08:59 |
| Breakfast room looks like it would make a fine office and building area. Q6 really looking good.
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| edtherenderman, Comment for image # 43251 | 14 Jun 21 08:13 |
| For silkspan, I use SIG Medium-flight plyspan. I bought a tube of it back in the 90's when I was building 1/6 scale R/C. Great stuff for all scale, but probably too heavy for free-flight. Don't know if you can get it anymore. I'd be curios to see what you come up with. My supply is starting to run low! |
| heywooood, Comment for image # 43251 | 13 Jun 21 19:41 |
| I can’t help you there, but man this airplane is looking great !
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| bobgood, Comment for image # 43251 | 13 Jun 21 17:28 |
| .....I wish I had DD's nimble fingers. The whole build is hand-cut pieces of balsa, CA'd into place. Hope it looks OK after filling, sanding, and painting. I may cover the wings in silk - not sure which brand to use? |
| bobgood, Image # 43251 | 13 Jun 21 17:23 |
Back to the Q6 after 16 days away. Too hot in my shop, at 99 degrees) so ahve made temp workplace in breakfast room. |
| bobgood, Comment for image # 43248 | 11 Jun 21 16:15 |
| It was some rubberised thread from a Ben Franklyn store Ed.
I hope to put some thin flat metal wires back in place of the old material. Have now got my new balsa supplies so hope to return to the Q6 soon. |
| edtherenderman, Comment for image # 43248 | 11 Jun 21 15:55 |
| Which tread did you use? I was thinking of using something similar, but not if it does this! |
| bobgood, Comment for image # 43248 | 11 Jun 21 13:33 |
| Some major re-rigging to do....... |
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