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Finally, you mentioned Sandringhams. There's lots of really good color schemes with those. I honestly thought of doing one for my Solent. You're still early enough on in the build that you could easily convert your Solent into a Sandringham. About the only change it would involve to Ivan's plans is on the tail, just skip the fairing forward of the vertical fin.
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I noticed that you have a grey-haired fellow who appears to be assisting you. That's great. Grey-haired fellows are really good to have along. For proof, I will let you know that Rick Bell is grey-haired himself. Bald fellows such as MoutainMan and myself are also good, if you find any of those around. If you take as long as I did to build your Solent, your grey-haired friend will probably be bald by the end of it. Anyways, if our wordy descriptions here in this thread aren't clear to you, just make sure you go to the grey-haired guy and I bet he'll set you straight. I don't know if you've already seen it or not, but I put up a web gallery with 14 pages of nothing but Solent construction photos. Some of those might come in handy to you or Tate. Feel free to check it out here. Sometimes it's easier to flip through the photo gallery than to go back through the forty million pages of my old thread. Quote:
Well, it sure is exciting to see a couple more Solents taking shape. I can't wait to add them all to the Hall of Fame. Along with Rick Bell's Solent and Carlos's over in Spain, I think 2008 is going to be the year of the Solent. By the way, I added a link to this thread over in the Ivan sticky. You're famous! I mentioned that this thread is actually for two Solents, since it looks like Tate will be posting here too. Great stuff, keep it up! Luke |
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Well Matt I just started my thread on my short solent so please take a look
Bye the way i really like the swoosh from the first 5 pictures of paint schemes that Lukez posted Here is the link https://www.rcgroups.com/forums/show...78#post8887958 |
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I like the TOA Scheme, with the swooshy blue thingy , and the white above it and the paneling below it. If flight metal isn't to shiny, thats what will become of the bottom of the fuselage!
Tate I am marveling at how easy it is for you to move your workspace all around the house!!! -Matt |
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Matt, a Solent even partly covered in FlightMetal would pretty much be about the ultimate model ever. I'm not sure how FlightMetal would hold up on a waterplane though, particularly on the hull section. But I do know it can be buffed so that it's no longer shiny, so that shouldn't be a concern.
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I think this guy made it happen: I saw these floats at the Skymaster's Midwest Regional Float Fly down in Brighton, Michigan. The pilot conveniently landed the plane in a bush on the side of the flight line. But it is really bright. Also I do not know how heavy it would end up to be, and on top of that, if it is kind of heavy, then I wouln't want to do the wing in it, and then there would be color issues and ohhhhhhh... the horror!! I'm really tired. -Matt EDIT: I just looked on FliteMetal's website flitemetal.com , and the process of apply the aluminum to the plane made my stomach turn. I didn't know I had to cut out every single panel on the plane and place them on the plane individually?!?! Well we will see about that on the Solent later..... |
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Here is an example of Flite Metal on my old B-29 mixed with some chrome Ultracote that was burnished. The entire nose section was done in Flite Metal with excellent results. Little parts like the nose are fine but an entire bottom of a hull??? Perry |
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Yes, there is no doubt FliteMetal looks incredible, but there is truly an incredible amount of work involved to use it, not to mention the weight penalty.
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I really can't believe I'm posting this... Sorry for muddying up your thread Matt! John |
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What was the aborted scheme you started on your Solent Luke? That was all painted on and looked very nice. John |
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Hey Mat any updates on the build?
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