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Build what you want and build it for yourself, the rest will follow... Mark D. Jones
Stuart Templeton
I may not be good but I'm slow - Old School Hairy Stick User
Nice!
The Bd-5 has always been a minor obsession of mine! I would love to fly one someday.
How did they go together? Any issues?
I have 2 sets of these little birds in my stash, I suspect they are the same kit.
Any idea how you will paint them?
I'll be following this thread. Just got a BD-5 kit recently from a friend.
I was a member of EAA at the time the 1:1 size kit became available. Delayed a bit and the Vari-Eze kits came out and I went to that instead, but still think the -5 was a beautiful aircraft.
Don Stauffer in Minnesota
Ditto on what Don said,
Except I don't have one to call my own. Have flown the actual bird. All I can say is Awesome LITTLE Bird!
They are pretty simple kits. Fit is about average, a little seam sanding is needed. The elevators don't fit exactly square so a little filler is needed if you align them properly. Ironically one is skewed one direction and the other is opposite. They look like the same part but have different numbers. (Maybe I should have swapped them...?)
The instructions call out for 1 gram of weight in the nose, but even using lead there is only room for about 1/2 gram, but that seems to be enough to make them nose heavy.
I cut the pitot tubes off the noses and will replace them with wire.
I'll do them as shown on the box art using the kit decals.
Kool !
Tanker-Builder Ditto on what Don said, Except I don't have one to call my own. Have flown the actual bird. All I can say is Awesome LITTLE Bird!
Never did fly the Bede. And never finished my Vari-eze- costs got to high and wife canceled project. Did get a chance to fly a friend's Vari-eze (from back seat) on flight from Jeff City to St. Louis.
Here's one I 3D printed. everyting was scratch built, decals came from Draw decals. I printed it at 1/32 scale.
I still have the 1973 Popular science magazine where I first saw it
John
On the Bench: 1/72 Ki-67, 1/48 T-38
1/144 AC-130, 1/72 AV-8A Harrier
falconmod
That's awesome!
Beautiful!
Great job on the Silver Bullet John! That came out great. How did you make the canopy?
falconmod Here's one I 3D printed. everyting was scratch built, decals came from Draw decals. I printed it at 1/32 scale. I still have the 1973 Popular science magazine where I first saw it John
Scale-Master I repainted the interiors and replaced the seatbelts. The prop version gets red stabilizers.
“Ya ya ya, unicorn papoi!”
Real G Will the jet version get folding wings and a trailer with a fake horse rump?
From John Byner's Bizarre with Super Dave?
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No, from Bond. James Bond.
”Fill her up, please.”
Scale-Master From John Byner's Bizarre with Super Dave?
Gonna have to watch that again. I do recall the fill 'er up part and the hanger fly through.
Those are such cool looking planes
Steve
Building a kit from your stash is like cutting a head off a Hydra, two more take it's place.
http://www.spamodeler.com/forum/
Those look great!
Buddy- Those who say there are no stupid questions have never worked in customer service.
Thanks! Fun little kits too...
I used Warbird (Scale-Master) Decals white stripes for the meeting edges of the canopies, the rest of the frames were hand painted with Tamiya white. The canopies don't fit too bad, (or all that great), and there is a slight difference between the jet and prop versions so it's advisable to keep track of which plane they go on during assembly.
The pitot tube is a steel straight pit cut and filed down to size. While the ½ gram in the nose was enough to keep the nose wheel on the ground, the pin doesn't hurt especially with the prop on the rear.
Both look great!
Nicely built.
Gee! That almost looks like the one I flew. Only difference? The stripes and stuff were Green. For a Pusher prop plane it flew well.
Very nice!
To see build logs for my models: http://goldeneramodel.com/mymodels/mymodels.html
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