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  1. Krazy Kanuk

    Sport Beautifying the Beast

    Next step is to paint the trim green on the fuselage. It's now sat for 10 days with the final yellow coat so it should be good to go.
  2. Krazy Kanuk

    Sport Beautifying the Beast

    UPPER WING ASSEMBLY You must admit that this design is UNIQUE!
  3. Krazy Kanuk

    Sport Beautifying the Beast

    Woke up to this! Two years ago we got 17 feet of total snowfall due to the Lake Effect that we get here. Hope we are not into that this year!
  4. Krazy Kanuk

    Sport Beautifying the Beast

    UPPER LEFT WING LOGO I had to split the word "LAGER" from the main MOOSEHEAD DECAL to make it fit without it getting caught in the aerilon crease.
  5. Krazy Kanuk

    Sport Beautifying the Beast

    Changed to "ALE" just for you! And they Export it!
  6. Krazy Kanuk

    Sport Beautifying the Beast

    CABANE ( MID WING) LOGO Waiting for the paint to dry on the fuse and main upper wing panels is soooo boring. So I decided to see how the mid wing logo would look.
  7. Krazy Kanuk

    Sport Beautifying the Beast

    LOWER WING ATTACHMENT Putting the lower wing on using the Hanger 9 method is a BIG PAIN in the A!!. Their method also calls for the bottom of the airplane to be left open so that your hands can attach the wing bolts thru the lower side of the fuselage and into the lower wing. Leaving the...
  8. Krazy Kanuk

    Sport Beautifying the Beast

    99 BOTTLES OF BEER ON THE WALL And then there were 98:----- Up here in Canada we like to drink from Quart Size Bottles!
  9. Krazy Kanuk

    Sport Beautifying the Beast

    ELEVATOR SKY CONTRAST This post is for Steve (itizme) who wondered why the YELLOW MOOSEHEAD decals. My decals finally arrived from B & E (stuck at Canada Customs for 8 days) and I was anxious to see how they looked! As Moosehead Beer is the theme of the paint job with Yellow mainly on the top...
  10. Krazy Kanuk

    Sport Beautifying the Beast

    WHEEL PANT UPGRADE From past experience I wanted to make two improvements on the wheel pants used on 100cc airplanes. The first is the ground clearance between the wheel and the wheel pant. Often the bumpy grass fields that I visit are not adequate to give a proper ride causing the wheel to...
  11. Krazy Kanuk

    Sport Beautifying the Beast

    Major Setback! : I had just finished painting the two elevators and had them drying when we had a small furnace explosion. Fortunately no one was hurt (but I do have a very scared wife). Unfortunately it shook the basement so badly that a million pieces of dust, dirt and soot landed on top of...
  12. Krazy Kanuk

    Sport Beautifying the Beast

    PANEL LINE SCREWS The fuselage is now ready for paint! I have all of the Panel screws installed. I used Phillips Pan Head #2 by 3/16" Stainless screws. Most of them I cut off a bit of the thread to lighten them a bit. The screws came from Ottawa Fasteners who are one of the sponsors of the...
  13. Krazy Kanuk

    Sport Beautifying the Beast

    4 strokes have a lot of torque so they just might be able to handle the big tires!!
  14. Krazy Kanuk

    Sport Beautifying the Beast

    Moose like to wander in the swamps up here, so maybe a set of Monster Tires would be appropriate. I can land anywhere!
  15. Krazy Kanuk

    Sport Beautifying the Beast

    DECALS FOR THE BEAST Since someone on another site (Canadian) guessed, here is a proof of the decals for the Beast. There is a slight error, the first decal, the Banner should read two required. Eric of B&E graphics did all the work to convert my images to the correct size and remove any...
  16. Krazy Kanuk

    Sport Beautifying the Beast

    ENGINE COOLING HATCH This airplane comes with an open area under and behind the cowl for the placement of cans or pipes. As I am using a Valach 4 stroke engine, I don't need this area to be "Open". I built a simple hatch cover out of 1/16" birch ply and then added some aluminum louvers from...
  17. Krazy Kanuk

    Sport Beautifying the Beast

    BOTTOM COWL The bottom cowl (it's great that it comes split in two from the factory) is now complete. I added 4 louvers (3" by 2 1/2") to assist in the engine cooling. I get mine from SDS Hobbies at $2.42 Here is the link, I find their web site a bit awkward to search...
  18. Krazy Kanuk

    Sport Beautifying the Beast

    STAB FLYING WIRES After reading on FG the build of The Beast, it was apparent that several people had a lot of trouble with their flying wires breaking. I decided to try something different and to build a much stronger Flying Wire assembly. I started off with a 2-56 rod that was threaded at...
  19. Krazy Kanuk

    Sport Beautifying the Beast

    PILOT INSTALLATION I found a nice pilot for the plane that has the "right" look and is the proper size. I used the picture from 2 real size planes for the proper location in the cockpit.
  20. Krazy Kanuk

    Sport Beautifying the Beast

    Better yet; I can now fly upside down at a VERY low altitude! Never had the guts to be 3 inches off the ground at full speed. Last night I did the first yellow coat of spray paint on the Right Elevator. I'm using this small item to learn how the paint goes on the fabric and how many coats it...
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