by heywooood » Sun Feb 21, 2016 1:20 am
thanks Dave, as I said - I'm not building this one for flight..been there done that and after a handful of flights I have a handful of sticks to show for it...so I personally don't do that anymore.
BtW - thanks for offering the use of your float instructions - I have them included with the kit and I purchased the LC float sheets from Guillow so I am good to go..
the thrust of my intention in building these civilian planes for static display and using the method I use is to share some of the very small and basic steps one can take to turn a bare bones stick and tissue model into something much more detailed and realistic...based on the fact that these Guillow designs are so very very good wrt to design and scale representation of the actual air frames they replicate.
Plastic kit manufacturers do not make large scale civilian single engine aircraft available..best you can do is some rather poor 1/48" representations. Built as best they can be built, they still look like cheap toys. These models, on the other hand, can easily be made to look more like scale miniatures of the real deal. If I were to build for RC or RB flight, I would use Guillows kits - I have built Herr, and Sterling, and Dumas and Easy Built kits in the past and have found that, the others aren't bad - but these Guillow kits are the best, again - for light flight applications.
Back on topic - I have all the major components framed, including the floats. This one will be a waterfowl.
Nest step is the infill, putty, sand and sealing or 'the Grind' as I now like to call it. get it waterfowl...nest step...no?... crickets?..
PS: DD...I begin to see what you mean...boy howdy -
...you made that out of a box of sticks..?
...what is WRONG with you!