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09-10-2006, 12:02 AM
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| Drawing and building planes.   Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: L'Orignal, Ontario, Canada Age: 63
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 |  Scratch building a 1/4 scale P40-E Hi friends (I hope), Well I'm a new user and I just figured out how to start a thread. My thread is going to be building my P40, because that痴 what turns me on, (what can I say). The coming mounts I will be posting pictures of what I want to do and will appreciate your input, positive or negative but your input. For now just hi and I値l be back later. Jean |
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10-19-2006, 08:16 AM
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| I knocked a horse out once.   Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: South Carolina Age: 48
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|  Re: Scratch building a 1/4 scale P40-E
So what P-40 are you looking to do? If you are building it from scratch, remember it was designed for glow (or gas?) and would be WAY over built for electric. Light is KING and you don't need to seal any wood nor worry about fuel proof paint. So what P-40 is it? That's a good starting point!
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10-25-2006, 10:38 PM
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| Drawing and building planes. Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: L'Orignal, Ontario, Canada Age: 63
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| Re: Scratch building a 1/4 scale P40-E  I'm looking to go electric and hope that I can because it is going to be about 112" wing span, and I guestimating about 60 lbs. and oh ya it's the E model that was in china with the AVG
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10-26-2006, 12:20 AM
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| Bad-ass Super Contributer!  Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Memphis, TN Age: 22
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| Re: Scratch building a 1/4 scale P40-E
The electric thing would be pretty neat since you wouldn't have to have an engine/muffler sticking out of the cowling, but it will be expensive. I'm guessing you're looking at $4,000 for that size airplane. Having said that, good luck! This thread should be neat.
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03-08-2007, 08:44 PM
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| Drawing and building planes. Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: L'Orignal, Ontario, Canada Age: 63
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|  Re: Scratch building a 1/4 scale P40-E
Before building my P40 Iam putting my shop together in my basement, which is just about done then on to build a p40 from plans that I bought for practice as I've never build a plane before and all the while looking for dimension to draw my own p40 so it can be scale reel scale .
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03-09-2007, 01:12 AM
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| Father of the Scale Furum  Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Chapel Hill, TN Age: 31
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| Re: Scratch building a 1/4 scale P40-E
Get er done! My Favorite warbird..
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12-11-2007, 11:49 AM
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| Drawing and building planes. Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: L'Orignal, Ontario, Canada Age: 63
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|  Re: Scratch building a 1/4 scale P40-E
Well it about to start, the gluing part that is. The drawing is done the parts are all but done and now I need to start gluing, and I need your help again  . I started with gel type CA but I find this very tedious as it's hard to get the glue out of the bottle. So what kind of glue do you suggest.Jean |
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01-10-2008, 12:49 AM
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| Drawing and building planes. Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: L'Orignal, Ontario, Canada Age: 63
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| Re: Scratch building a 1/4 scale P40-E
Hi dpoles i've been checking Mercury adhesives web site and it looks great but where can I purchase the product. Being in Canada, I'm wondering if this product is sold in Canada, and if yes which store? Jean |
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01-10-2008, 01:05 AM
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| Drawing and building planes. Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: L'Orignal, Ontario, Canada Age: 63
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| Re: Scratch building a 1/4 scale P40-E Well it’s under way. The fuselage structure is just about done and now the Cowl structure is finished. Now to cover the cowling is next. If your interested in visiting the progress go to my web site at: http://worldraft.com/p40-project/p40.html |
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05-14-2008, 08:17 PM
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| Drawing and building planes. Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: L'Orignal, Ontario, Canada Age: 63
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|  Re: Scratch building a 1/4 scale P40-E I'm at a stage were I need to fill in some places, to round off some corner. I can use fillers with common wood glue, or use epoxy & filler do you all have any other suggestion and if the epoxy is the favorite, what kind of epoxy, resin or glue. Jean |
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