Need to finish yet is the pilot, cockpit combing, and lines for elevator.

terryman wrote on Dec 31^st, 2016 at 2:08pm:


Terry
Really like your idea, ran down stairs to find a couple old wiring harnesses I salvaged from a washer/dryer I tossed. Originally pulled them out because, there was all different guages and colors. No tan that I was hoping for, but there is kind on a medium mustard color. And it is more to scale than the feul tubing would have been. After thinking about it a bit. I'll use black for the inst panel bulkhead. Then a light tan for the interior, just so it's not just a black hole. And use the mustard wire for the combing. It is kind of a leather color, which I think that original combing was. Think I need to see what Park Flyer Plastics has in the way of a pilot, or maybe just start to paint mine and see what I end up with. I think a pilot in here will really add to it.
Dave

SE5a looks great.  Some have used sheet foam to make the cockpit combing.  Depron or foam sheet, Walmart has a 2mm cocoa brown that might work: Click Here
Looking forward to the completion of this one!
Tom

Getting there. Need to repair the radiator/cowl that I cut in half and chopped a hole in for an engine yet. Unsure about installing cabanes, at this time the wings are still removable. The bottom wing screws into the fuselage, and there are screws at the end of each wing strut. After painting it, I don't know why I need to remove the wings though. Maybe I'll cut some from popsicle sticks, and just glue them in place.

When I really got into this, I decided to keep as much of the original airplane as possible. So decisions were made to let things go as is. 100% of the incorrectly built vert stab and tailwheel are going to be kept. 95% of the fuselage is going to be kept as is. I would really like to put the exhaust stacks on it. And that wood prop that was in the box also. Also the gun and the pilot. With all this being said, I don't know how much of a goal I have to make it a teather flyer anymore. Sorry?

Repaired the upper wing. 60% of it is original. That disaster above it is the lower wing.

As Bob suggested the steam to flatten out the decals and immediately pin them down flat.  A damp clothe might clean them up sufficiently to reseal them with a coat of Krylon crystal clear.  But they would still be very fragile.

But the copy idea of Bob's is a good way to set up some tissue cals on your printer.

That pink spinner and prop look to be for glow or diesel power. 

Don't see why you couldn't call her that old...but a lady never like to reveal her true age!
Tom