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PostPosted: 26 Jul 2012, 03:19 
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Avgas, that looks like a master piece, keep it up. :smt023


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PostPosted: 26 Jul 2012, 11:51 
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I finnished off the building/sanding of my Grippen and will slap some paint on it soon :D
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PostPosted: 26 Jul 2012, 14:31 
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Thanks Jeffreynic, very kind of you :smt023

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I finnished off the building/sanding of my Grippen and will slap some paint on it soon :D
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Ehhh pick chaz pliz :lol:

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PostPosted: 26 Jul 2012, 16:42 
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Pick chaz to follow soon :D

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PostPosted: 26 Jul 2012, 20:23 
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Avgass that is some very impressive work!!


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PostPosted: 27 Jul 2012, 17:36 
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Cammo on.

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PostPosted: 01 Aug 2012, 16:20 
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I am far from happy wit the end result, but here it is anyway.

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PostPosted: 02 Aug 2012, 16:37 
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Looks good from here Theuns, good job :smt023

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PostPosted: 05 Aug 2012, 16:34 
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OK, so inbetween ing with the puma I also dabbled with the Mirage a bit. The Fuse is joined
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But I ran into a hassle with the bottom of the front wheelwell not joining up nicely with the wing/bottom fuse section. There is a gap to the rear part of about 1mm or so and I can't cut the assembly free from the cockpit to make it seat bettet so I had to glue on plastic and witll have to shape it to mate with the bottom fuse.
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PostPosted: 11 Aug 2012, 10:18 
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I am amazed how much more rotor wing GB is popular :shock:

The Mirage is now looking like a plane (almost) I took allot of care with the wing to fuse joints as they are so long. Still there was a gap in the top wingroot that I needed to fill with some glue and stretched sprue.

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PostPosted: 16 Aug 2012, 15:47 
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Some progress on my Cheetah:

Engine pretty much done n painted now:

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Tackled the wings:

Bits cut out

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Attaching fillets:

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Plenty of filler:

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Sanded and scribed:

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Need to pop some leading edge thingamabob sticky uppy things (fences ??)

More soon :)

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PostPosted: 16 Aug 2012, 17:04 
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The thing on the leading edges of the Cheetah are called "dog tooth" :)
Looking good!

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PostPosted: 16 Aug 2012, 17:10 
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T. van Vuuren wrote:
The thing on the leading edges of the Cheetah are called "dog tooth" :)
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Now if someone would tell us non-jet-savvy people what they are and why are they different from the original... :?:


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PostPosted: 16 Aug 2012, 17:14 
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T. van Vuuren wrote:
The thing on the leading edges of the Cheetah are called "dog tooth" :)
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Na mate, I was talking about these things:

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Are they fences??

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PostPosted: 16 Aug 2012, 17:38 
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avgass wrote:
T. van Vuuren wrote:
The thing on the leading edges of the Cheetah are called "dog tooth" :)
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Na mate, I was talking about these things:

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Are they fences??

Nee, dit is n wind heining. :smt023
Looking good avgass.


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