Sport The Behemoth Yak gets a Behemoth Brother/129" Pilot Yak (2)

[stangflyer]

I ran out of steam last night so I was not able to post anything. So I am going to get it done now before my git up and go, is done git up and gone.

I got started on the covering ironing last night. I was only able to get the stabs/elevators and one wing taken care of before I ran out of steam. But they turned out pretty nice. I start with a lower heat on my iron and hit all the seams first. I want to make sure them little suckers are not going to come up when I bring the heat up for the rest of the wrinkles.



Starting with the stabs/elevators was going to be a bit of a task, considering this plane has sat in storage for roughly two years untouched.



I do like the fact the hinge lines are sealed. A slight bit more caution is required here as too much heat will pull the seams right out of the hinge line. She is quite the wrinkled plane huh? LOL.



I did have to resort to using my heat gun on the open structure and the covered sheeted surfaces. Too many wrinkles that just would not heat properly with the iron. But getting it uniformly heated, they dissipated very well.




I have these set to the side for now. After all the shrinking is done, I will go back to them to wire them and servo them up.

 

[stangflyer]

Next, I started with the right wing panel. Dang this sucker is large. LOL. Much like the stabs/elevators, the right wing/aileron panel was not too much of a surprise for wrinkles.



A little patience goes a long ways when heating and shrinking covering that has been left unattended for so long. The right wing panel however turned out real nice. Now with it set to the side with the stabs, I will move on to more of the covering shrinking.

 

[stangflyer]

I got a really cool surprise tonight when I got home from work. I package in the mailbox and one at the front door. Well, oh goody. Snakeskin for all the wiring harnesses. And will ya look at this cool dude?! I think he wants to stay, so I will give him a home.

Well since the really cool dude showed up, I just couldn't allow him to sit in a wrinkled mess. So, iron, trim tool and heat gun in hands...(No, I don't have three hands. Just learned to hold the sealing iron between my toes. LOL)...I went to work on the canopy/hatch. Silly black. By far the hardest to make look good. And wow, does it show every thing. Not to mention, the summer sun is absolute "MURDER" on black covered parts. Guess he will be sitting in the shade while not tearing up the skies.






Considerably slower at getting this right, but well worth the effort.

So I don't know how much more, (if any) I will get done on the shrinking tonight. It has been a very long and frustrating week. I am just about beat. I am even thinking....of not going flying in the morning. We'll see...maybe.

Oh yeah, I almost forgot. Look at the really cool "coolness" @SupaTim included with the pilot.

There is a reason SupaTim is so "SUPA"!

More later everyone. (Maybe)

 

[Jetpainter]

Man that's a lot of area to iron. Behemoth is right.

I think that may be the coolest pilot bust I've seen, and a perfect match for that airplane.

 

[stangflyer]

Man that's a lot of area to iron. Behemoth is right.

I think that may be the coolest pilot bust I've seen, and a perfect match for that airplane.

Thank you Doug. What is so funny about this pilot dude is when I text Tim a few days ago and asked him to send me the measurements so I could check the fit inside the canopy/hatch, I was expecting large. But not Behemoth large pilot dude. He text me back and I said to myself, "Well there is NO way he will fit inside that small opening". I kept thinking about the G-Force pilot I had to trim down for the new Pilot Edge. I thought I was in serious trouble. Ok, not so funny there. When I opened the box, (rather large I might add) he peeked his head out and I thought, "Dang, he "IS" big!" He will never fit. Ok, now the funny part. I slid him gently into the pilots seat and what do you know? He has room...LOTS of room to spare. I get used to these size planes I guess. I remember when I got my 40% 260 five years ago. Shortly after I bought it, I shattered my left foot and I was basically house bound. I worked on the covering, and installing my equipment in it. I kept thinking to myself, Dang this thing is huge. Uh....nooo! Not so much. Put it next to the Yak and it looks like a .60 size glow (shudder) plane. LMAO. Wow.

 

[Snoopy1]

I got a really cool surprise tonight when I got home from work. I package in the mailbox and one at the front door. Well, oh goody. Snakeskin for all the wiring harnesses. And will ya look at this cool dude?! I think he wants to stay, so I will give him a home.

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Well since the really cool dude showed up, I just couldn't allow him to sit in a wrinkled mess. So, iron, trim tool and heat gun in hands...(No, I don't have three hands. Just learned to hold the sealing iron between my toes. LOL)...I went to work on the canopy/hatch. Silly black. By far the hardest to make look good. And wow, does it show every thing. Not to mention, the summer sun is absolute "MURDER" on black covered parts. Guess he will be sitting in the shade while not tearing up the skies.

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Considerably slower at getting this right, but well worth the effort.

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So I don't know how much more, (if any) I will get done on the shrinking tonight. It has been a very long and frustrating week. I am just about beat. I am even thinking....of not going flying in the morning. We'll see...maybe.

Oh yeah, I almost forgot. Look at the really cool "coolness" @SupaTim included with the pilot.

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There is a reason SupaTim is so "SUPA"!

More later everyone. (Maybe)

You are going to have to have lot of patience with that covering. It is lot of work helped my friend with one of his wings from pilot plane that had a lot of black. It took some work to get it good and flat again but bib not take long for the wrinkles to come back again but it was a lot less maybe in time he will win. Good luck.
Must say like the pilot. Are you going to leave the shades on this time. And yes a have to agree that the Jak at the same scale is considerably larger than the extra and the Sbuc.

 

[stangflyer]

You are going to have to have lot of patience with that covering. It is lot of work helped my friend with one of his wings from pilot plane that had a lot of black. It took some work to get it good and flat again but bib not take long for the wrinkles to come back again but it was a lot less maybe in time he will win. Good luck.
Must say like the pilot. Are you going to leave the shades on this time. And yes a have to agree that the Jak at the same scale is considerably larger than the extra and the Sbuc.

Thanks Snoop. Yes, I think I will leave his shades on. They match the covering. Lol

 

[WMcNabb]

Found this today and thought it might inspire a cool panel for your Behemoth Brother Pilot Yak (2)...

 

[stangflyer]

Found this today and thought it might inspire a cool panel for your Behemoth Brother Pilot Yak (2)...

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How sweet are those panels?! Unfortunately Eric has already designed my dash panels and new Yak graphics. I would really hate to change it up on him now. Especially after all the work he put into them. But thank you so much for thinking of us. (The Behemoth Brother Yak (2) and me)

 

[stangflyer]

I got a little more accomplished on the new Yak last night. I wanted to get the last of the shrinking done on the covering so that I could get some "inside fuse" work done today. I started with the rudder first. It was about like the rest of the wings and stabs. Wrinkled like an old elephant. LOL.



After about an hour of massaging the covering with my iron and a little applied heat from my heat gun, and that rudder was looking pretty good.

Next up, Left wing panel.