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Damaged tail -
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Lettering removed, wrinkles sanded and stab tip cut off. Rudder tip has been glued with hot glue. -
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New stab tip cut and hot glued place. Light spackle drying. -
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Painted, new lettering, and a coat of polycrylic. Note how the tail paint is more of a typical navy color than the eflight color.
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Fliteworks P-38 with the carb inlets. -
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Hatch cover cut and turbo tacked in place. Styrene sheeting used to shore up some rough foam cuts. -
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Hatch sealed in place with aluminum tape. -
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Straw inserted in rectangular cuts for the inlets. Notice how shoddy the foam surface is. -
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Aluminum tape burnished over the straw to make the inlet. -
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Finished inlets. -
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All the foam patched over with aluminum and weathering applied.
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Cut out one of the dents in the leading edge. -
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Aluminum patch over the foam fill. -
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Painted- good to go! -
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Not bad for a plane that dove into a corn field! The flat black areas on the wing leading edge are where I repaired dents. -
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First flight after the repairs- still flies great.