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  1. Bipeguy03

    Scale 25% Krier Kraft build, a tribute to grampa.

    Well after this cold hit me like a ton of bricks I haven't felt like doing much in the shop, but I felt better today and needed to escape all the election crap so into the shop I hide for the evening. I started bending up the wire for the landing gear, and man if I haven't said it before I...
  2. Bipeguy03

    Scale 25% Krier Kraft build, a tribute to grampa.

    Grampa, dad and my favorite saying goes a little more like "I cut it THREE times and it's still too short!" :D
  3. Bipeguy03

    Scale 25% Krier Kraft build, a tribute to grampa.

    On to the landing gear. Even though I have a bunch of 3/16" wire, and it's only a few pennies a stick, the shipping sucks so I decided I wanted to have a mock up of the LG before I started bending the piano wire. So a quick trip to Ace Hardware to get some welding rod was in order, and I'm...
  4. Bipeguy03

    Sport JTEC RADIOWAVE 26% Pitts Model 12

    Looks pretty good! The tips on my 35% have a little more radius at the leading edge but yours looks pretty close! As for how they will effect the way it flies, I don't think they will make any difference, they don't add any lift or drag to speak of they are just kind of good looking baggage ;)...
  5. Bipeguy03

    Scale 25% Krier Kraft build, a tribute to grampa.

    Didn't get a much done tonight, but did manage to get the rear wing fillet made. I'm quite happy with it, a little bit of balsa putty and it should look pretty good!
  6. Bipeguy03

    Scale 25% Krier Kraft build, a tribute to grampa.

    Put the wing bolt block in tonight and got it drilled. I used my forstner bit and a shim in the drill press to put an angled flat spot in the wing for the bolt head to sit on. I will put a mahogany disk in the recess to give the bolts a good firm base. Next is the rear fillet and then the...
  7. Bipeguy03

    Scale 50cc Scratch Build From My Own Design Revisited

    You could always just send me that Extra ;)
  8. Bipeguy03

    Sport JTEC RADIOWAVE 26% Pitts Model 12

    Looking really, really good!!
  9. Bipeguy03

    Scale 25% Krier Kraft build, a tribute to grampa.

    It's the micro balloons, that stuff fixes a lot! lol
  10. Bipeguy03

    Scale 25% Krier Kraft build, a tribute to grampa.

    Okay so got the front bottom wing mount and fillet done. I used a 1/2" thick piece of spruce as the mount block and 7/32" x .014" Brass tube as the wing pins. The block was glued in with some spruce triangle stock between the fuse lite-ply doublers behind F2. I had to remove the stringers...
  11. Bipeguy03

    Post'em....Old planes you miss having

    The one I miss is one I regret selling. I took a Frank Noll Illusion bipe in on trade for a Great Planes Gene Soucy Extra. It needed some work but I sold it before I did anything with it... I regretted it before I even got home from the swap meet. I love my Sig Skybolts I have 2 and wish the...
  12. Bipeguy03

    Give-a-way contest! Win a Hanger 9 Extra 300X

    My luck stinks, but fingers are crossed ;)
  13. Bipeguy03

    Scale 25% Krier Kraft build, a tribute to grampa.

    Worked on finishing the wing mount this evening, sorry no pictures as my phone was acting up so I'll take plenty tomorrow :) Had to do some cutting and modifying the fuse around the leading edge of the wing, nothing to drastic just needed to change the shape a bit. Also need to make those...
  14. Bipeguy03

    Sport JTEC RADIOWAVE 26% Pitts Model 12

    I like the Round wingtips, they just say "Pitts" but to be completely honest on the M12's I like the half round ones. Here's the full scale I kinda copied for my 35% Trueworthy. And my finished 35%, Building has it's headaches, I find myself quite often just needing to walk away from...
  15. Bipeguy03

    Show Me the Biplanes!!!!

    Completely forgot to post a couple pictures of my latest Bipe in this thread. How could I forget? I started it!! lol Anyway here's my 25% Krier Kraft, scratch building it from my own plans (well mostly my own). Trying to copy the airplane my Grampa built in the early 80's. 71" Span 61"...
  16. Bipeguy03

    Show us your custom color schemes

    Here are mine, couple of them have my take on a scheme done before or a scale scheme but they were all done by me. All of my planes these pictures are covered with MonoKote. My next 2 projects will be fabric and dope, copying schemes that were scale or done by my gampa. My PAU/BME 37%...
  17. Bipeguy03

    Show Me the Biplanes!!!!

    Don't let me near that S1, or it might come up missing lol. At least it would help you cut down on your "problem". ;)
  18. Bipeguy03

    Show Me the Biplanes!!!!

    The only Biplane problem a person can have is when he doesn't have enough ;)
  19. Bipeguy03

    Scale 25% Krier Kraft build, a tribute to grampa.

    So the last couple of evenings I've been working on getting the wing saddle to fit the wing properly. Well it has been fun to say the least lol. Back and forth, back and forth, I get the incidence right and then the wing is leaning to one side, get that fixed and then the incidence is wrong...
  20. Bipeguy03

    Scale 25% Krier Kraft build, a tribute to grampa.

    Sure you posted in the right thread? ;)
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