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Sport The Kool Kanary (Giant Hot Kanary)
Clear is done!! Which means that other than a few odds and ends the paint work is finished. Tonight I wanted to do something a little less stressful so I decided to build my pilot. It's a 1/4 scale Williams Brothers Standard pilot just like in the Krier Kraft. I started with cutting him down...- Bipeguy03
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Sport The Kool Kanary (Giant Hot Kanary)
I'm back!!!! Okay, I know its been waaaaaaaaaaaay too long but I'm finally back on the Kanary. So to start, I finally found some blue vinyl that was at least close to the Bahama blue dope for the stars on the bottom wings. So with that a few days ago I got them cut and put on. Then, after...- Bipeguy03
- Post #146
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Sport The Kool Kanary (Giant Hot Kanary)
Sorry for disappearing for such a long time guys, let me assure ya I'm alive and well... Well mostly lol Life and some minor health issues got in the way of modeling and I haven't even got to touch the Kanary since my last post. I'll be getting back to work on it in the next couple of days...- Bipeguy03
- Post #141
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Scale Nelitz 1/3 scale Cub build
Looks almost exactly the way a full scale Cub wing is built (I literally just watched my dad build one this fall). This is going to be really interesting to watch.- Bipeguy03
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Scale Nelitz 1/3 scale Cub build
Looking great!!- Bipeguy03
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Sport The Kool Kanary (Giant Hot Kanary)
It is a stubby son of a gun!! Maybe I'll nickname it Stubbs :D Anyway, after a couple of hours cutting this afternoon I had all of the white stars. I then set about sticking them on.... So now it has Stars, starz and more starz!! And I'm not done yet!! I still have to put them on the...- Bipeguy03
- Post #126
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Scale Nelitz 1/3 scale Cub build
Saweeeeeeet!!!!!! Looking forward to seeing this go together!!!!! Gotta get my popcorn ready ;)- Bipeguy03
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Sport The Kool Kanary (Giant Hot Kanary)
So it has to sit for a couple of weeks before the clear to gas off. I couldn't help but bolt it back together to see it as a whole. While it looks better to me put together than it does apart, it is still in definite need of all them darn stars!! I started cutting out a week or so ago, and it...- Bipeguy03
- Post #122
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Sport The Kool Kanary (Giant Hot Kanary)
And now for a splash of color :) The yellow will really smack ya in the face!!- Bipeguy03
- Post #121
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Sport The Kool Kanary (Giant Hot Kanary)
It actually covers quite well, there is only 3 LIGHT coats (probably the equivalent of 2 normal coats) of white on the whole airframe. I've found that base coat will cover just as well as dope, just have to be patient and not pour the paint to it to try and cover it up on the first shot.- Bipeguy03
- Post #119
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Sport The Kool Kanary (Giant Hot Kanary)
Well, she is now completely white. Tomorrow afternoon I will get it masked up for the Lemon Yellow and if I get it done in time I'll spray it.- Bipeguy03
- Post #117
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Sport The Kool Kanary (Giant Hot Kanary)
When someone says "nice paint job" they should really say "nice mask job". Masking is definitely the most tedious part of any finishing job, but it's also often the difference between a good paint job and a not so good one. Tonight I just about got the pinstripes masked, I just have to finish...- Bipeguy03
- Post #114
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Sport The Kool Kanary (Giant Hot Kanary)
Last night I sprayed the Dakota Black Butyrate down for the pinstripes, finally some color!!! I did learn something though. The extra work and waste of spraying the fill coats of clear butyrate isn't worth the results. I can still see the brush marks from just the 2 light coats I did first...- Bipeguy03
- Post #113
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Sport The Kool Kanary (Giant Hot Kanary)
Blue on top Yellow on bottom and about a bazillion white stars lol I got the pinstripes plotted this evening, and as long as the forecast holds I'm spraying the black tomorrow.- Bipeguy03
- Post #111
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Sport The Kool Kanary (Giant Hot Kanary)
No problem lol I started plotting the lines for the pinstripes and hopefully will spray the black this evening so I can start masking for the white tomorrow. Then in the following days mask and spray the Lemon Yellow and Bahama Blue.- Bipeguy03
- Post #108
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Sport The Kool Kanary (Giant Hot Kanary)
I'm spraying the clear right where its at in the picture. When I get to color I'm moving to my dads hangar (I just remodeled my shop and don't want yellow and blue overspray everywhere). But when that happens I'll be a little more at the mercy of mother nature as his hangar isn't sealed up as...- Bipeguy03
- Post #98
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Sport The Kool Kanary (Giant Hot Kanary)
Three coats of Butyrate sprayed on yesterday, and tonight I wet sanded it out with 400. Now that I don't have any fingerprints left, tomorrow I'll spray 3 more coats. Let it sit a day and wet sand that out with 600. Then spray the black for the pinstripes.- Bipeguy03
- Post #96
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Sport The Kool Kanary (Giant Hot Kanary)
Fabric and paint is definitely heavier than film. The only way to know the difference 100% would be to cover the same airplane twice. Rough estimate on my Krier was I added a couple ounces more than a pound of covering and paint. And it would have been less than a pound added with film. But...- Bipeguy03
- Post #92
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Sport The Kool Kanary (Giant Hot Kanary)
The clear butyrate are the fill coats. Filling in the weave of the fabric. They come before the colored butyrate. Pigmented dope is heavier than non pigmented dope. So you fill the weave with clear and use as little colored as possible. I'm spraying the last few fill coats this time because...- Bipeguy03
- Post #89
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Sport The Kool Kanary (Giant Hot Kanary)
She's all covered and has a brush coat of Nitrate and a brush coat of Butyrate. One thing I'm doing different with the Kanary is I'm going to spray the last 4 fill coats of Butyrate instead of brushing. The Krier looks great but if you look at it close you can see slight brush marks even...- Bipeguy03
- Post #87
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