[b1heqh54]

Hello Everyone - I have to admit to being a quiet observer for some time now, but I've just posted a video on youtube of my ongoing build of an all composite warbird. It's a 1/7th P-40E Warhawk. I don't know how much interest there is for this sort of thing, but you can feel free to watch the video on my channel here http://www.youtube.com/user/b1heqh54

or here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ge3yw99b9g
You can also search for composite warbird. I know how helpful it can be to see pictures of someone elses methods - so if this helps even one person, it will be worth the typing - nice to meet ya

[voyager_663rd]

Regarding the pic in your post, if you set up an account on a site like

photobucket.com

you can upload a full sized pic there and then post the img link in your thread here.

Like this



It will then show up nice and big (or maybe not so big). When I open your current pic, it's even smaller than what I see initially. And that is too darn small to see anything.

Need help with that? Just ask.

[b1heqh54]

Thanks, I'm on it.

[mtnflyer]

And whats going on??? How many different topic listings do you feel it takes to get your message out????

I would like to enjoy your subject, but please, don't over-due by placing it in more than one topic. Just my thoughts. !!!

How do you spell placing. I was going to say putting; but, that sounds wierd, as in the puting you eat.

[b1heqh54]

Thanks for the input mtnflyer - duely noted. Forums are a new thing for me - I do apologize.

[b1heqh54]

Well,

Since my last post, I've added a couple of videos that have been very popular on other forums, so I'll share them here as well. I've begun to mould the left side of the fuselage now. I hope that I'm providing enough details to encourage others to give this a try. Let me know what you think.
You can check out the videos here
http://www.youtube.com/user/b1heqh54

Now let's see if I've got the photobucket figured out - here's a quick pic of where I'm at - http://s284.photobucket.com/albums/l...t=P4080006.jpg

[Leslie]

Hello

I think you are doing a wonderful job.

I'm new to the hobby, and have only built one, simple C/L airplane. Seeing works like yours inspires me to keep going, to keep building and learning. Not that I'll ever be able to build a work of art like yours, but, the inspiration you've given me is priceless.

Please, keep up the excellent work.

Leslie

[b1heqh54]

Hello Leslie,

Thank you very much for your kind words, but don't underestimate yourself. I still have my first c/l model. It was a P40 as well. I still have it hanging in storage (along with dozens of other broken down birds - I can't throw them away or leave them behind). It's a Carl Goldberg profile P40. I still think it is the most beautiful thing I've ever seen! I was young, about 12 (1982) and I had read every model airplane magazine that my father had collected since the 1950's. He never built or flew, he just read. We didn't have a lot of money (I had three sisters all within 2yrs of me), so I had tried to make a c/l model of my own out of a piece of pine for the fuselage (profile) and a built up balsa wing. I'd found an old Fox35 in the spring cleanup, thrown away years before. I didn't know then what I know now about spar and shear web design etc etc. (but it's how I learned) and so when I showed up at the park where the only other guy in town who flew, was - with the wing covered in a pair of old nylons and then silkspan and dope - well, he very politely told me that he didn't think that we should fly it because it was too special a plane given that it had been built by such a special little boy, and that I should take it home and hang it up so that I would still have it to look at when I was his age. (it hangs on my wall as inspiration for me now) Well, I didn't know it then, but that man owned the local hobby shop. The one where my father had been buying his magazines for thirty years. The next day, my father came home with that Carl Goldberg profile P40. It felt like the best day of my life! I remeber that I didn't want to cover it with silkspan and dope, so I waited all summer and all fall for christmas to come, for one roll of chrome monokote iron on covering. It was the only thing I wanted (and probably the only thing I got - lol) One of the fondest memories I have is the feeling of pride that I had the next spring standing there going around in circles out in middle with the owner of the hobby shop handing me the handle as my dad watched from the side. Well, like I said, I still have her - sure she's got dirt in carb, and the wings look like a patch work quilt, but that plane taught me about alot more than just preformed leading edge. Remeber these days Leslie, and when you're my age, and someone with their first plane tells you you're an inspiration, you'll realize what the hobby is all about!! Keep flying, keep trying, and remeber - Patience is a virture and there is no trying - only doing, or not doing.

[b1heqh54]

PS - The wing on that first attempt would've folded in a strong breeze carrying it to the park let alone on trying to fly it!!

[Guest]

You are doing excellent job there. A friend mentioned this process to me few weeks ago but i was skeptical about it then but now after seeing your videos i feel confident to try it out. Why did you not made molds of the parts separately then attaching them to the fuselage, was there any specific reason?.