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| rayl | Scratch Built Consolidated XF-92A | Build | 09-Jan-15 13:06 |  |
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| Impatience strikes! I just had to start fairing the planking to see how it was going to turn out. My little Stanley planes, which are older than I am, worked just fine once they were set a little deeper that what I normally have them. The soft balsa requires a more aggressive approch than pine or hardwoods. |
| rayl | Scratch Built Consolidated XF-92A | Build | 09-Jan-15 13:02 |  |
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| Really not good picture as my "shop" digital camera does not have a Macro mode. If you look close, you can see the rivets and foil joint lines. Still have some work to do fairing the duct into the AIr Inlet nossepiece, ( which I haven't fabricated yet). |
| rayl | Guillows Series 400 - P-51 Mustang | Build | 09-Jan-15 12:59 |  |
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| A few more pictures now. This is the inlet duct looking aft. I will fair the seams in with Acryl-Blue glazing putty, which is another hard thing to find anymore. I plan on applying Aluminum foil to the interior of the duct complete with rivets (applied with the LOML pounce wheel). |
| rayl | Scratch Built Consolidated XF-92A | Build | 08-Jan-15 17:17 |  |
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| Starting to build the air inlet ducting. It is such a prominent feature that I felt that it had to be included. I spent several days re-learning the trig required to generate the patterns for the curved conical duct sections. Finally said the hell with it and cut and fir posterboard patterns until I wa satisfied with the shapes. There are three sections of inlet ducting per side. |
| rayl | Scratch Built Consolidated XF-92A | Build | 08-Jan-15 17:12 |  |
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| About a week later: The fuse has been removed rom the jig, which was modified to be a building cradle. The vertical fin has been sealed with Cabots "Quick-Dry" lacquer basec spray sanding sealer. In our new Eco-Friendly world, these high VOC items are getting really hard to find. The fin has been primed with a high-fill automotive rattle can lacquer. |
| rayl | Scratch Built Consolidated XF-92A | Build | 08-Jan-15 16:57 |  |
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| This is the third attempt at constructing the vertical fin. It's been a long time since I built a balsa model (about 50 years), so I expect to have bad days. The ribs are 1/8" and the sheathing is hard 1/16" stuff. |
