Scale Wendell Hostetler 30% PA-28 Cherokee Build

[dhal22]

You have builds started and not finished?

 

[AKNick]

You have builds started and not finished?

Um yeah... doesn't everyone???? I'm ashamed LOL Way to many unfinished projects, I chase the candy

Tony, great work on the canopy - holy smokes that was fun to watch the double vacuum forming process.

 

[TonyHallo]

I have two unfinished and one that needs recovered.
A Frank Knoll designed One Design that is covered with Hobby King film that I can not match the flourescent green.
A BUSA 33% Sub Cub that I started 16 years ago.
A Godfrey designed One Design that I put my foot through the canopy and the covering is just too shabby for my liking.

 

[BalsaDust]

Not sure if they can do that green or not but I recovered a buddies Hangar 9 Edge many years ago with hobby king covering and to paint the cowl I actually went to lowes with a piece of the covering on a scrap of balsa. They mixed up some semi gloss latex in one of their sample containers. I then mixed it 50-50 with minwax semi gloss polycrylic and sprayed it through a HVLP. Once fully cured I then hit it with a can of Gloss clear coat and it looked great.

 

[TonyHallo]

I have tried Sherwin Williams latex.

 

[TonyHallo]

The windows are in.
Working on the landing gear, Carl Goldberg made little 90 degree nylon brackets for mounting cowls, wish I could find a package to mount the fairings. I used those brackets on the original Cherokee.

 

[TonyHallo]

Found 1/2" x .060" PTFE angle at McMaster Carr, plan to make the mounting brackets for the fairings out of it. Also bought a piece of .020" G10 that will become the blanking plate to separate the engine side from the cabin side at F2. This will be removable.

 

[TonyHallo]

Installed the blanking plate, the bottom half is glued in and the top is removable to access the engine compartment. Three 2-56 screws hold the top in place. It is time to get serious about painting. The PTFE angle arrived as well, ordered 1 12" piece, they sent me 10 12" pieces. Sent 9 back.

 

[TonyHallo]

So the fun begins, prime, sand, fill, sand, prime, sand, fill, sand and so on.

 

[TonyHallo]

Got my notice today that my electricity cost are increasing about 250% in August, $.057 to $.15 /KWHR, wonder how much paint cost have increased? I'll find out soon.