Hi Teddy, my name is Jose thus my nickname is Pepe. I have a small RC flying wing design on my webpage at
www.flycatsfly.com. I have been designing and building R/C models aircraft for 40 years, so I am a true modeler. Pepe le pew is a French skunk, (Skunkworks was a design bureau of Lockheed) So, since I design in my garage, my nickname is Pepe I am a modeler, in french, "Maquettiste", the signature "Le Maquettiste" and the avatar of Pepe le Pew!
I have a slew of paint guns from Devilbiss to Sata, so I will give automotive colors a try, I love using House of Kolor paints and they work great. The fins on my rockets are fiberglass laminated balsa. I'll do a demo for tomorrow and post the process. It eliminates a ton of filling and makes the fins very strong and light!
The signature is a quote from Theodore Roosevelt's speech on April 23, 1910, Citizenship in a Republic. The most famous quote of the same speech is :
"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat".
Hope you guys get to fly soon!
Joser
