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I'd love to be the .01% of the males in the dorm Monocote and Econocote were two of the coverings, Econocote was lighter. I still have a full roll of chrome monocote, iron some opn a board and you have a cheap mirror base. It might show the grain through on balsa, don't remember, can put filler on first...I think...been a long time....

I've thought of the foam, it's easy to find at building supply places and you can buy the scraps pretty cheap, I bought a scrap 2 1/2 feet wide by 4 feet long buy two inches thick for one dollar when I was building radio control planes, made a great building board. I may try that on a model with more compound curves. So you're stuck in the girls dorm, and the college had a catastrophic power failure how???

I'm going to cut the formers out of balsa and then cover it with thin balsa sheet and then cover that with plastic, I will also cover the inside of the cockpit with plastic as the inside of the Cub was covered with fabric. The seats will be made out of balsa and then the final shape with Milliput, if Milliput won't stick to balsa, I'll cover them first with plastic. The engine was holding me back until I talked to James Merrigan (his Condor article in the golden age section has been a help), he told me he built a four-cylinder opposed engine using four cylinders from a Williams Brothers engine and he reshaped them, I will need to rework the heads with Milliput. That will leave 5 cylinders for a Gee Bee E, my favorite plane I haven't worked with balsa in over 10 years since my radio control days (I have a lot of it leftover), I really enjoy working with it. When I finish it, I will have it on a base with grass and I'm going to pick up one of the old Pyro kits from the '60s off of eBay, they're 1/32. I had their 1936 Ford when I was a kid and it was one of my first models, and will be nice to have that alongside the Cub.

OK, this isn't very far, but considering that I haven't really touched a model in many months because of health/work/studying/working on the web sites, I'm happy I got this far! I found the drawings using Google and scaled them to 1/32, worked out some basics for building the internals of the model and now have the top wing cut out of balsa and I am sanding it to shape. After I've finished sanding I will sheet it in plastic and use gas station/grocery store receipts with white glue for the leading edge sheeting/wing ribs and the paper circles cut out from a three hole punch for the inspection panels. Feels good to actually be working on a model again!

https://www.largescaleplanes.com/walkaround/wk.php?wid=104

2 items that work also, Future & Walthers Goo http://www.walthers.com/

Found this

Welcome the the big scale and LSP #> A good and cheap source for belt material is the receipt you get from gas stations (at least in the US, don't know about other countries), very tougfh and flexible, doesn't get all fuzzy when cut like normal paper, takes paint well. See Scott Murphy's articles in the WW2 section, I learned it from him, he has a Spit and Corsair there.

They used white tape over the gun holes to keep the coral dust out, nasty suff...it was the same tape they put in front of the canopy over the fuel tank cover. I believe only land based covered the gun holes.

I have heard of attaching parts to clear parts using Future. Looking closely, I think I can see some helmets of the Tommy's getting ready to charge out of the trenches #>

Heard from Brian yesterday, he's taking the cameera home to snap some photos #>

Shawn, the president of CraftWorks asked me to post the following reply to Chris Busridges articles/review on the C. 205. Shawn had originally posted his reply on Hyperscale and asked if I could copy it over to LSP. http://www.largescaleplanes.com/articles/C...ltro/Veltro.htm Shawn McEvoy,President Macchi C.202/205 'review' Mon Jul 7 15:03:38 2003 198.49.222.20 I rarely respond to reviews of our kits primarily because most of them are very favorable and appreciative of the enormous amount of research,work, and money involved in making these highly detailed 1/32nd scale kits.Occasionally a review will speak for itself or the reviewers abilities. In this case, however, I could simply not let Chris Busbridges' 'review' at this website go unchallenged. I think it is important to put into perspective that the C.202/205 kit was mastered in 1997 and released in 1998. It represented the latest in available research and technologies (including dry transfers to represent the many aluminum placards, miniature brass chain to represent the harness chain in the cockpit, a two-sided color 'four-view' painting guide, four beautiful decal sheets and a superbly sculpted standing fighter pilot. It covers 15 series developments of the C.202 and 2 series developments of the C.205. It represented the most detailed and comprehensive work in any scale of this magnificent Italian fighter. It is a very realistic representation. Regarding the Build/reveiw: The canopy construction is the most difficult part of building the kit; at the time we felt we had no alternative to representing the very heavy framing and sliding window feature, but with careful fit checking can be made to look very convincing. In any case it is not "grossly overscale". The four sheets of decals were exstensively researched, including many of color photos;I suggest he go back and do his homework. His claim that the rudder and control surfaces have "crude, exaggerated fabric detail" are simply outrageous. The radical vertical fin surgery and other bizarre changes he made in order to make the model look the way he "personally was happy with" represents an unrealistic and irresponsible review. We pride ourselves here in capturing detail, yet making the build as intelligent and straight forward as possible. With all of our kits we carefully examine photos (sometimes hundreds of them) and where possible examine the real deal. We use the best plans available and our kits match those plans (cockpits being slightly narrower due to manufacturing limitations). In the case of the Macchi C.202/205 and C.200 these plans came directly from AERMACCHI (yes, they survived the war and are still in business). Perhaps the reviewer should contact AERMACCHI, tell them they're all wrong and suggest how they should improve them ! By the way we sent AERMACCI our kits and they loved them. For those of you wishing to read a more responsible and realistic review of the Macchi C.202/205 build I refer you to SCALE AVAITION MODELLER INTERNATIONAL VOL 7 ISSUE 1 JANUARY 2001 covering both the C.202/205 and the C.200;the C.202 is on the front cover. Also currently available at many hobby stores (and hopefully Squadron) is the Specialty Press HOW TO BUILD AND MODIFY RESIN MODEL AIRCRAFT KITS, it has 132 pages with 275 Color photos, $19.95. Our C. 202 is featured on the front cover and the build review is some 70,000 words with loads of color photos. Good modeling to you. Sincerely, Shawn McEvoy, President CraftWorks, Inc.

We have a photostory by Chris in his cutaway style of his plane in his markings as a memorial, will be on the update

After taking a quick look at it, I can only quote Frank Barone “Holy Crap!!” I’ve been waiting for this kit for around 2, 2 1/2 years when I first got word Trumpeter had decided to it, it was a long wait, but worth it!! After a quick look, a couple areas are soft in detail, the cockpit, although the dash looks good, and the gun bay, both good areas for detailing though. The detailing on other areas is very good though, will need to dig farther with my D&S book though to really tell for sure. My canopy only had one tiny “crack” about 1/16” long on the main canopy in front, as good as the molded detail is, I’ll still use it. The rubber tires have people questioning their longevity, I’ll probably put a layer of BMF around the rim first as a barrier. I had the Combat 105 (a $60 “kit”) and I bought the Rutman detail set for it at $45, got rid of the vac as they’re not my cup of tea. I’ll check the Rutman set to see if the wheels are accurate and will work, people have asked for resin wheels, you’ll have to ask him if he’ll sell them separate. He did tell me when I bought it that it was on of his first sets and the detail was weak, Trumpeters 105’s detail is better than the rest of the set, the wheels as I remember were good though. Saying the box is sturdy is an understatement, the full color box inside for the clear/rubber/metal parts is larger than some 1/48th kits I have. This kit is just huge and dwarfs my building table (kitchen table). Before I got it, I was thinking of back dating it to a B and doing a Thunderbird, after seeing the detail and the bomb load (“Holy Crap!!”), I will detail this out and do my 1/48th as a Thunderbird, have some good color photos of them.

Interesting article, covers the preflight and flying, it was even more fragile than I thought #> http://www.avweb.com/news/columns/185354-1.html

This really is easy!! I added my signiture and the photo below my name which I have never done on a board before, very easy!! I haven't had to resort to the help files yet...who want's to read instructions first #>