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Got a little more -SHEATHING- done. Worked on the bottom blending. I made a small keel--not pictured--to get a rounded bottom. I'm using 1/32 balsa for this. I prewarped it with a spray of water...

YEA BABY, That's what we're talkin bout--nice--glad the flight went well. NOW--Shelf that baby and move on--don't want no dings on da girl---pull her out once a year just to show off !!!

I gotta tell ya, I had more fun today than I've had in years. This place brought back a lot of memories from my late teens --I was hangin with the warbird crowd then-- The place even smells like oil...

Pretty sure it's a Mig-17---Those triangular things appear to be aerial gunnery targets. I think they were called darts

That was a pretty bird. To my knowledge there are only three left. One is on display in Tokyo , the other two are in the states in restoration or waiting restoration---Beautiful bird--looks like it...

Nope--It's a Yak-3

Yep--more pics of it---129956129957129959----They were supposed to fly it today--we left early--and there were high winds--doubt they flew it--one of the P-40's had a problem and did not fly---all in...

Here is a better pic of them together----129954129955

There's a ton waiting restoration to flight worthy or display-----129945129946129947129948----and ther's stuff in every corner---129949129950129951129952129953

Do you like old?-----129939129940129941129942129943129944

There was also a ton of stuff on static display--but flyable---129933129934129935129936129937129938

Of course we can't forget the other stunning aircraft, some of which flew.----129926129927129928129929129930129931129932-----

Well drat, no FiFi. But a good time was had anyway. One treat was a trip to the south hanger--not normally open to the public---What a gold mine!! A B-24 under repair, a Yak-3,HE-111, and a T-34...

Headed out there in about an hour. I'll post some pics later. Rumor has it FiFi won't be there--sux, she's been flying around all week.

Not to worry my friend. I've taken a break from a couple of my builds too as of late. Looking forward to more pics---Bill

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Warbirds over Addison is this weekend if your in the DFW area--just a couple miles from my house. Hoping to see Fifi-B-29 among others. 10 bucks at the gate--got a great museum too--part of the...

Cool build---watching

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PAIR-O FINS--

Got a good chuckle out of that ,,thanks

Thanks buddy, this is gonna be one of THOSE builds--should be fun. Glad to hear about the job thing working out---Bill

And a little more sheathing you shall have my friend. How about some strakage !! Ya know me , gotta have strakes, and yes they will be blended-----129500129501129502---more later -H

Smoked Eastern Green Toad and marshmellons---yummm

Got the fins/wings glued up and mounted. Also got the top half tube mounted. I had to make a small coupler section to get everything to line up ( shown in photo ). I'm going to try to get a FUTRO...

Did a little prelimanary fin cutting and joined the two half tubes---I'm using bass----128754128755----We'll see were this goes---more later

There's a fine line between sexy and raunchy !!----SEXY--128726----RAUNCHY--128727------Tis better to have raunched and lost then never to have raunched at all---That's something like #287 in the...

A little more done----I needed to get a little taper on the spine, that means cutting a little angle out of the half tubes--easy enough, just taped it off and cut it out with a single edge...

So I'm taking a break away from the 20 mill for a couple weeks--not to worry --it's on track. I decided to do a scratcher with a couple parts from an Interceptor E--I know--GO FIGURE, anyway , this...

The Herc has always been one of my favs, just looks right ! A cool build to be sure--watching---H