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  1. Larry B

    Scale NAT's 2016 anybody?

    This morning the wife and I were out at the field getting one last practice session in before the NAT's. She was playing around with her Kindle taking photo's to see how it works out. We will try and get a bunch of pictures for Giant Scale News and post them. All I did was take-offs & landings...
  2. Larry B

    Scale Curtiss XP-55 Ascender

    Jetpainter, Nope, I have never had any issues with the Bondo eating up the blue foam. I had never thought about it but polyester based resins do eat up some foams and Bondo is a polyester based stuff. I remember while doing the plug for the 109E I used a bunch of blue foam around the nose...
  3. Larry B

    Scale Curtiss XP-55 Ascender

    Next step is to start spreading in the Bondo, I like to kinda sand as I go. This allows you to see & double check the final shape and see what your final part is going to look like. For some areas I have used blue foam to give me the shape I want because the strip planking won't make the shape...
  4. Larry B

    Scale Curtiss XP-55 Ascender

    The next step seems to take forever but it saves a ton of weight and expense of buying Bondo. I will strip plank in-between all of the cross sections using the same wood sheet. I use plain old Tite Bond wood glue, nothing fancy. You want your strip panking to be about a 1/4" below the "mold...
  5. Larry B

    Scale Curtiss XP-55 Ascender

    Ok guys, I will start a "how to" do a fiberglass part for you. Now please be aware that there are a bunch of different ways of getting to the same finished product and I am by no means an expert! I have taken all the input from the guys who really are experts doing the glass work for Ziroli...
  6. Larry B

    Scale Curtiss XP-55 Ascender

    This was a test of the Kindle to see if we could post photos on this site. My wife figured it out and we used the Ascender project as a test subject. While we are at the NAT's I'll see if I can keep you guys up to date with photos and text of what is going on with the Kindle. I have the...
  7. Larry B

    Scale NAT's 2016 anybody?

    Thank you Jetpainter, the model is a 1/4 scale Fiat CR-32 scratch built from my own plans, it is a good flying model that I have been flying for just over 2 years now. Last year I was able to place 4th at Top Gun flying in the Masters Class which made me pretty happy. it is all traditional...
  8. Larry B

    Scale NAT's 2016 anybody?

    The 2016 scale NAT's are quickly approaching, they will be happening June 24, 25 & 26th. This year should be a good one as the event has a new CD and he is having the event on the grass field at the back of the AMA complex instead of the usual paved runway. Hope to see you there, Larry B
  9. Larry B

    Scale Where's the builds?

    I have been a member of RCSB for many years but posting pictures is a real pain in the @$$! This site is so "user friendly" when it comes to posting a video or photos. I have not started a new build thread on RCSB for my new project just for this reason, it takes me about 10 steps to get a photo...
  10. Larry B

    Reworked Edge 540T

    Matt, I will attend any of the IMAC events that Abe can make. I just put together this PAU thing as a way of getting Abe out to a contest, over the past 4 or 5 years I have not been able to get him to try the contest thing. I had a blast at the contest, especially getting Abe to get up in...
  11. Larry B

    Hello from Elizabeth City NC

    Thank you guys, I did post a few shots of the IMAC thing in the VENDORS section under the PAU section. I think it's titled Edge 540T rework or something like that.
  12. Larry B

    Hello from Elizabeth City NC

    Thank you Earle, you are to kind & I think over exaggerating a bit:) The PAU thing is still a Chinese ARF to the core, I just could not bring myself to show up in public with an ARF that looked like everyone else's model. Abe & I had a blast at the event, I had never even been to an IMAC...
  13. Larry B

    Let's see your full-scale airplane!

    What a beautiful classic Pitts, did you build it? Congratulations on your 27 years together, that kind of a relationship is getting harder & harder to find these days. Larry B
  14. Larry B

    Scale Curtiss XP-55 Ascender

    Thanks for all the interest, but remember there are no guarantees that this second model will last any longer than the first one did on the test flight! I have learned quite a bit from the first effort so I will be better prepared for this one, time will tell. Today I spent 40 minutes out in...
  15. Larry B

    Scale Curtiss XP-55 Ascender

    I told myself this would never happen & now here I am doing it again! Several years ago I did the molds for a Curtiss Ascender, it was my first effort at doing a complete glass fuse from scratch, the molds and glass fuse came out just fine but the first flight was very short (read that as a...
  16. Larry B

    Hello from Elizabeth City NC

    Bart, I have the utmost appreciation for the skills required to do any of the 3D type flying, I could never come close to what the 3D pilots are doing these days! Even back in my youth when I got into R/C (mid 70's) I have always loved scale, trying to reproduce miniature aircraft and then...
  17. Larry B

    Hello from Elizabeth City NC

    Here are some photo's of the project, I wanted to build a 109E-4 in 1/4 scale because there are no kits available, I started with a good 3-view and scaled it up to 1/4 scale. I then made a plug, molds, & finally the layed up a glass fuse. The wing and tail are foam cores sheeted in 1/8" balsa...
  18. Larry B

    Hello from Elizabeth City NC

    I agree with you Ace R/C, I usually have been posting on R/C Scale Builder where there is a lot less Chinese ARF's & Monokote, but this is a interesting & diverse forum so I thought I would give it a try.
  19. Larry B

    Hello from Elizabeth City NC

    Thank you all for the warm welcome, I do seem to be the "odd man out" being a scale guy:) Larry B
  20. Larry B

    Let's see your full-scale airplane!

    Here is a photo of a Jenny replica that I built from drawings, I flew it for 10 years before selling it because I was having more fun with the R/C stuff. There are times when I do miss it but then I think of the expense and get over it real quick! Also a photo of a Challenger II that I rebuilt...
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