ajd,

As per PJ's suggestion, I sprayed Testors Clear Flat Lacquer this morning, and it looks much better. I'll take some more pics for the front page tonight.

Thanks again PJ. Your a master.

I would love to see your J3 and Citabria . 8 foot, what a wing span!   

Sounds great Steve, looking forward to seeing more.

Welcome Matt!

Mcrazy

LOL you are very welcome buddy. Glad my suggestion worked.

I took a couple of pictures of both the J-3 and Decathalon which are hanging from the garage ceiling. The Decathalon is powered by a Zenoa G-23 gas burner and the J-3 has its 120 4 cycle  removed for maintenance. I think I have a 16" prop on there.

The wigs are about 3ft each. You can see the servo wire extensions hanging.

PJ,

I like the way you have them tucked away over the garage door when Its up. Typically useless space, and the way they peek their "little" noses out when the door is up.

Big birds, that I'll bet fly great. I used to have the Carl Goldberg J3 Anniversary Cub (before it was "Anniversary"), and it flew very well.

Thanks for sharing. 

Steve, the 262 looks really nice. Great work on the scheme and that's a nice base as well.

Mcrazy

Thanks for the kind words. LOL, I also have the Goldberg Cub on the other side of the garage, powered by a Saito 45 4 Cy. I've recovered it 3 times so that tells you how old it is.

Steve the 262 came out great! I've had good results with the Testors Dulcote as well,ca'nt wait to see more pics of that beauty!

PJ nice birds , I've got a 80" wing span Hangar 9 cub on floats with a Evo 10cc. Gotta luv the Cub.

Gamera,Bish just got the new FSMag congrats on getting published and great looking Figures you guys have some mad skills!

Not much progress Guys just got the RLM76 sprayed after a modest preshade. Being as it was mostly wood not a lot of panel lines to highlight. I did streak some random lines in direction of flight so it would'nt be so monochromatic,they do'nt show well in the pic tho.

Thanks Trey. Yes the Cub is a joy to fly.

Ok guys, here is the new toned down finish.

adj, pick whichever one you want for the front page

Thanks to all and your kind remarks

Bish, thanks for the complement, that means a lot from the one which knows all things Luftwaffe.

Steve that looks spot on! Really did the trick !

Steve: She looks good to me! Really nice work on those crazy mottles.

Trey: Nice work, looks like you're ready to start some mottling of your own there!

PJ: Those are cool, always wanted to try RC but being afraid to crashing some expensive model kept me away from it.

MCrazy

Looks better now without the shine. Hard to tell it's a 1/72 scale kit. The camo and base look fantastic.

Gamera

Unfortunately, crashing is part of the hobby and sometimes it can be minor damage and other times just............................

Very cool 262 there, love the base :-)

Theuns

Thank you Theuns, I wasn't sure about the base until I got the model on it.

PJ,

Since you showed me yours, I'll show you mine..

My work bench with Tower Hellcat and Dynam Peaks 3D bipe hanging above it (if you look close, you may be able to see the current 104 build on the bench). Sorry it's such a mess, need to straight it out this weekend.

Great planes Super Skybolt .60 - .90 (around 20 years old, just finished this year and still needs to be covered).

And finally a scratch built Fokker D7 .40. I haven't flown that one yet.

I have more, but since this is the "Dawn of the Jet Age" forum and not the "Moonlighting with my sideline RC Hobby" forum, I won't waste any more space.

Steve, thank you.

And those are some impressive looking R/C builds.

TREY, thanks. These FSM GB's have been rely nice to be a part of. The first two were a nice chance to do things I have not touched before and as always, the guys were full of advice and ideas. Though for the 3rd one currently running its nice to be on familiar ground.

Liking the 162. I am really looking forward to seeing the top colours on, that confuses me a bit.

Mcrazy

LOL, the look of a busy and active workshop. That Fokker reminds me of the old Dynaflite .40 Fokker a crazy flier. Great looking bunch or RC planes.

Ajd

You would have freaked out at my scratch built 80" wingspan Fokker D.VIII that I had. Unfortunately I sold it 7 years ago when we moved out of state and I was downsizing. I also sold a 6 ft RC Elco PT Boat I was working on.

Adj and PJ,

I have over 50 RC plans on PDF and hard copy of WW1, WW2, Civil, and DF (Ducted Fan) / Turbine, various wing spans and engine sizes.

My next attempt is going to be either the Sopwith Camel, Newport, Spad, Heinkel 51 or Curtiss Jenny, I'm so confused, I just can't decide.  I just love two wings on RC planes, IE my last pics.   

PJ, if you want one I can shoot ya, just let me know and I'll see if I have in my files.

I vote for the He 51. I have always loved that plane.

That one would be fun, and it's just the right size for a car and small field.

MCrazy...Message inbound

Thanks Bish!  The scheme of the top is confusing at best. There is a well documented restore that has different lines and multiple colors on top. It was stripped after many repaints and some of the original colors were still preserved under the layers heres a link

http://memorial.flight.free.fr/He162uk.html

I went with a straight RLM71 and post shaded it with some very thinned RLM02 mixed with the 71 just to break it up. I'm hoping after a wash , filter & clear coat session it will darken up a bit,if not I'll just hit it with some pastels. While this copies the scheme in the instructions for 'White 1" its probably not very authentic,its fine for my shelf so I'm rolling with it

Trey

Great looking build, she is looking mighty fine. That is one very interesting link and one heck of a restoration.

Interesting thing about the name penciled in the gear bay ending in ski. I have an early 1936 NCO Army Artillery peaked hat with a name of Borowitska or Borowitski barely legible under the clear plastic diamond. Doesn't sound like the usual German names.

Thanks PJ, yea you never know about names sometimes they can throw ya! Did you notice the gear legs by chance,109 units and different colors!

Trey

Yes, great pictures and an excellent reference source. Got it saved in my favorites so thanks for posting as I have both the Revell 1/32 and Dragon 1/48 models of the Salamander.

I finished the office and before sealing the forward halves, I added a small lead sinker to the nose to keep it from being a tail sitter. There is still another pe part that is to be attached to top of the dash where that square looking molded part is at..

PJ: Paint looks great and I love that cockpit!

Thanks Gamera.

O man, who would have guessed modelcrazy and myself were making the same airplane?!

I know it's all for fun and such but I am quite familiar with his quality LOL!
Fuselage halves and drilled holes for the rocket hard points...

The 30mm gun bay turned out alright.