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« Reply #30 on: February 02, 2010, 22:54:24 PM » |
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Please contact your stockist, lindinger, for advice on this  we do not control their dielivery times, only our own, and thats difficult enough!!  |
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« Reply #31 on: February 03, 2010, 10:53:39 AM » |
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Due to a customer dropping out of the pre booking we do have 1 La7 left, first come first served.
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« Reply #32 on: February 04, 2010, 09:23:32 AM » |
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Warbirdman,
would you mind sharing some pictures and tips on your weathering job as jou progress.
I will be starting on mine soon....
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« Reply #33 on: February 05, 2010, 12:25:31 PM » |
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Yes sure... Progress has stalled at the Moment while I finish off the Hurricane but did start it last week..
As I have said on the TY Site forum, an all wooden plane is going to be diff to do but ..hey ho..
I started on the only metal area on the wings the aluminium panel where the two sections of wing were joined..
To do this I just draw the area out with a dark grey Derwent Pencil.
I then scooped out the thick bit of the paint out of some Humbrol Aluminium... ie I did not stir it!..
Put this on to a piece of plastic then with a cloth wrapped into a tiny ball dipped it into the paint a little..I say a little because you are not after a lot of paint on the cloth.
Then using a piece of very thin plastic I used this as a guide along the hard edge I wanted to form.
I then brushed , like polishing but in one direction off the plastic and onto the area I want to add the paint. This has the effect of making the paint look worn down.
I will try and post some pics on how I do it later but here are the results so far...
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« Reply #34 on: February 11, 2010, 12:04:10 PM » |
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Hi Wayne,
Any updates? I have just been looking on RCU and there is a chap doing the same as you are in the states that got me all fired up again
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« Reply #35 on: February 11, 2010, 12:30:33 PM » |
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That is amazing Wayne how a little effort produces something that leaps out of the photograph into 3 dimensions.
I would swear you had a metal panel screwed to that wing...
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« Reply #36 on: February 11, 2010, 20:58:35 PM » |
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At the moment I am busy finishing off the Hurri but thats nearly finished in the next week.
Will do some more on the LA-7 this weekend now that I can get the Cowl and Canopy off.
I won't be going to the lengths that the guy in the RCU site is going to with the cockpit..just weathering...
I have started to paint the Dummy radial though and cut the mask for the Star, one on top of the wing and on opposite side on the underside. Not standard but adds interest to an otherwise dull wing.
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« Reply #37 on: February 21, 2010, 20:33:06 PM » |
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The rest of Ali's LA7 can be seen in WARBIRD MAN WAYNES CUSTOMISING HANG OUT Anyone else got a LA-7 ? lets see it !  Cheers Wayne |
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« Reply #38 on: February 21, 2010, 21:29:03 PM » |
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Yep! I have an LA7 thats almost finished..  Lavochin LA7  Lavochin LA7  Lavochin LA7  Lavochin LA7 |
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« Reply #40 on: February 21, 2010, 22:24:08 PM » |
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nice Is that the big Scalewings LA7? tried to get hold of one 6 months back but told there was a masssssssssive waiting list so didn't bother. Thought there was more wood than metal in the LA7 but it looks good though! |
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« Reply #41 on: February 22, 2010, 10:26:21 AM » |
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Hmm bit of a diff between our ARTF version at £349 plus retracts and the ScaleWings one at nearly £ 2k for the 1/4 scale...and nearly 3K for the 1/3 scale one... Not comparable in my books...Nice detail on the mouldings though...
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« Reply #42 on: February 22, 2010, 20:42:52 PM » |
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I agree with you there Wayne when you say not comparable. I have checked and you are both wrong My LA7 is not wood like the real one. It is definitely a toy made of fiberglass  Regards Al |
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« Reply #44 on: February 22, 2010, 23:17:52 PM » |
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Lol..... I know I'm a sad scale nut, you never know you might drum it out of me. I did put the retractable landing light on your hawk on the wrong side of the nose wheel well! I'm loosing sleep over that atm  |
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« Reply #45 on: February 23, 2010, 09:05:09 AM » |
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But does it look right? Thats the only important thing.
I have never understood the scale thing ( Unless you want to compete with it ) For me its more important that it looks good rather than scale. Example: If I were to ever do a sea vixen I would make sure the canopy was stuck in the middle of the fuselage.. Not off to one side looking as if they glued it on overnight with RC modelers glue and it slid down to one side while it was drying. There are loads of others where I look at full size and think "That looks rubbish" or " That would look so much better if...."
Thats the beauty with them being just toys, we can have them how we want them, thus the metal LA7, The turbo prop spitfire, The Virgin Atlantic Concorde etc etc.
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« Reply #46 on: February 23, 2010, 10:55:21 AM » |
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I agree.... I have to resist the temptation sometimes of the pull from the 'Darkside' and like you say Ali, they are toys...but its good making them look as real as possible... Did you read the stick in the new Spitfire thread...   After all this I do like your other LA7 though... all metal or wood or as you say Fibreglass looks damn good and suites that all over metal finish.. That's one thing that YT can't duplicate at the moment an all over metal finish...you have to Re-spray them if that's what you are after...but thats fine.. more work for me .. //Must crack on... |
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« Reply #48 on: March 02, 2010, 05:44:00 AM » |
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What are you guys considering in terms of electric motors for the LA-7?
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« Reply #49 on: March 02, 2010, 06:12:53 AM » |
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Hi Wayne,
With reference to your weathering technique to show the exposed metal under the paint... have you tried MIG dry pigments?
Do you think it is possible to make your paint thicker by adding some of the dry pigment to it?
Do you use the dry pigment to do the dirtying?
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« Reply #50 on: March 02, 2010, 23:03:51 PM » |
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Not tried MIG dry pigments no because for the worm metal effect its not good it being dry it has to be tacky paint you use....
Not sure what the dry pigments are but why would I need to make my paint thicker? the idea is to layer on washes that give the effect of wear and dirt.
I don't use dry pigment paints for any weathering but I know some use chalks etc which is the same I guess..I use enamels so that process is different because you mix colours with thinners on a rag and apply it like that... Dy pigment would be doing it like the chalks where you scrape the chalk to get the dust and then rub this into the surface to get the desired effect...
Not done it like that but guess thats how it would be done...
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« Reply #51 on: March 03, 2010, 07:49:54 AM » |
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Wayne,
I only have "fresh" silver paint no thick residue in the pot. That was why I asked about thickenng it with dry pigment.
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« Reply #52 on: March 03, 2010, 09:49:55 AM » |
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Arrr I see now ... Thats not a problem... the Aluminium paint is actually a metal paint so has different properties to normal colours... if you use a cocktail stick and dab a little onto a non porous surface , which is why I use an old margarine lid... then it will start to dry out enough to use.. but to be honest when you rub the paint into your rag on that plastic surface it will cake itself enough for what you want.. We are only ever talking about small quantities here, if you put too much on the rag it will be difficult to control when you try to apply it to the plane... Hope that helps.. Wayne |
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« Reply #53 on: March 31, 2010, 06:30:31 AM » |
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Hi Wayne,
I have tried your internal linkage method on the flaps. It work like a charm.
Do you have any idea what the colour of the cowl is?
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« Reply #54 on: May 05, 2010, 09:21:33 AM » |
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My LA-7 has been ballanced and weighed.
By re arranging the batteries i need no additional dead weight. It is ballancing as per manual and the AUW is 8.25 kg ~18.5 lb about 2 lb heavier than the manual recommend. Appart from a retractable tailwheel nothing extra was added to the standard kit and retracts I am using a Scorpion 5545 electric motor on 12 s 5000mA Extreme power batteries with a 120a ESC swining a 23x10 3 blade prop
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