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This balsa kit is
made by Guillow and has an impressive 28" wingspan. It took around four months of building, working on it
off and on, and it was the very first time I ever covered a model using
the heat-sensitive plastic covering! It came out very good considering I
was learning as I covered it (no practice beforehand). The decals had
problems so I had to use Elmer's Glue for the roundels on the wings and
the fuselage, and the rudder stripes I hand-painted on after the decals
shattered when trying to use super glue to tack them on (thus the use of
Elmer's afterward LOL). It took all the clay I had in the kit - plus a
penny - to get it to balance out for flight.
However, I used two types
of super glue - the runny stuff in the blue bottles and the gel in the
red ones - to hold the vinyl wood-substitute wing struts into the wings
and fuselage, and this combination somehow made the vinyl brittle enough
to shatter when landing in the snow (March). I recommend being careful
with this kit and using some model airplane plywood to make new wing and
landing gear struts , and pitch the vinyl ones.
I didn't get any
balsa deforming with the iron-on covering either (Hangar 9's Ultracote,
Piper Yellow
color), and I used regular plastic
model paint to paint the parts that I thought were metal on the real
thing.
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