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Sterling Stick and Tissue P-36 Peashooter

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Posted by Eugene Rowe on Saturday, May 21, 2022 2:30 PM

https://youtu.be/_4XluyLytrM

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Posted by Eugene Rowe on Saturday, May 21, 2022 2:26 PM

Cool !I have used Monokote which is a plastic film in a Guilliows Dehavalid Beaver and it came out well 

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  • From: Twin cities, MN
Posted by missileman2000 on Saturday, May 21, 2022 8:29 AM

One thing I have done when I wanted to build a stick model of a metal aircraft was to use something else than tissue as covering.  I have used glossy card stock and 0.20 sheet styrene.  You can easily dimple both to represent rivets.  I bought a roll of thin roof flashing aluminum- it is the cheapest form of the metal to buy.  Haven't tried it yet, but will sometime soon.

 

 

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Posted by Eugene Rowe on Thursday, May 19, 2022 8:50 PM

fox

Hey! Maybe we'll need a separate section in the Forums for Stick & Tissue Planes? Wink Wink

Jim Captain

Stay Safe.

 

interesting idea but the mods have to decide if a separate section for stick and Tissue models would be viable.

fox
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  • From: Narvon, Pa.
Posted by fox on Thursday, May 19, 2022 8:07 PM

Hey! Maybe we'll need a separate section in the Forums for Stick & Tissue Planes? Wink Wink

Jim Captain

Stay Safe.

 Main WIP: 

   On the Bench: Artesania Latina  (aka) Artists in the Latrine 1/75 Bluenose II

I keep hitting "escape", but I'm still here.

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Posted by Eugene Rowe on Wednesday, May 18, 2022 2:32 PM

I am sure they look fine Tanker!

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  • From: New Braunfels, Texas
Posted by Tanker-Builder on Wednesday, May 18, 2022 12:18 PM

No Promises:

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Posted by Eugene Rowe on Wednesday, May 18, 2022 9:43 AM

Yes they are a nostalgia trip for sure!

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  • From: Towson MD
Posted by gregbale on Wednesday, May 18, 2022 8:50 AM

Built quite a few stick and tissue models in my youth ("What...that long ago??? What was that, the late Pleistocene?") ...mostly Guillow WW1. Love to see this project developing, since it's an a/c type I've always had a grudging fondness for...but have not yet personally modeled in anything but ancient 1/72.

Party on!BeerYesBeer

Greg

George Lewis:

"Every time you correct me on my grammar I love you a little fewer."
 
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  • From: Longmont, Colorado
Posted by Cadet Chuck on Wednesday, May 18, 2022 7:52 AM

Amazing that this kit is still around...  I built the exact same Sterling kit maybe 50 years ago, and I still have it hanging in my den.  It has authentic, realistic weathering from dust and tobacco smoke in the house over all those years.   Still looks good!

Gimme a pigfoot, and a bottle of beer...

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Posted by Eugene Rowe on Tuesday, May 17, 2022 4:41 PM

Yes they are fun;can you take pics of the Beech and Taylor craft!?

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  • From: New Braunfels, Texas
Posted by Tanker-Builder on Tuesday, May 17, 2022 3:54 PM

Hi! Eugene!!

   Well, that's about how far I am on a Taylorcraft AND a Beech! Nice little planes AND, I Forgot how much fun they are to build. I started them because I needed a break from The Pyro/Lindberg/Life-Like, Natchez. I have replaced ALL her Cabin and Engineering Department windows with Tichy Train Group windows. Doors next!

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Posted by philo426 on Tuesday, May 17, 2022 9:38 AM

Yes it is a good idea...this is a semi scratch built build.I obtained the plans and took them to FedEx Kinkos to have 4 copies of the instructions reduced by 25 percent.I cut the parts diagrams out of one of the instructions and used them as templates to cut out the parts out of sheet basswood.I cut the slots for the stringers with a reinforced cut off wheel in my Dremel moto tool.

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  • From: Twin cities, MN
Posted by missileman2000 on Tuesday, May 17, 2022 9:01 AM

I'll be starting a Stirling Aeronca C-3 soon.  My ulimate goal is to scratch a C-3 in 1:32 scale with detailed engine and interior, and figured building the kit first would be a good experience.

 

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Posted by Eugene Rowe on Monday, May 16, 2022 1:59 PM

Getting the stringers installed.   

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Posted by Eugene Rowe on Sunday, May 15, 2022 10:44 PM

Yes they are fun and a nice change of pace from plastic models 

fox
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  • From: Narvon, Pa.
Posted by fox on Sunday, May 15, 2022 9:20 PM

Hi Eugene! Love those stick & Tissue planes. Use to build them all the time. Nowadays, every once in a while I build one for a break. About two months ago I built two of them when i hit a snag in my current build. Finished them and went back to the build an old Pyro Robert E. Lee Mississippi Steamboat.

Going to love watching what you do with that kit. They are a lot of fun to build and fly.

Jim Captain

Stay Safe.

PS - Still have 1/2 dozen of them in the stash.

 Main WIP: 

   On the Bench: Artesania Latina  (aka) Artists in the Latrine 1/75 Bluenose II

I keep hitting "escape", but I'm still here.

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Sterling Stick and Tissue P-36 Peashooter
Posted by Eugene Rowe on Sunday, May 15, 2022 8:05 PM

Progress thus far.  

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