And his paint has run…too much thinner, pressure, and too close dude!!
Someone needs to buy better masking materials…
Ever hear of micro-sol?!
Sand paper would have made a better non-skid than semi-gloss black!
Looks like someone forgot to sand the mold lines off…
Nice panel!
Interesting weathering.
This one lacks weathering…Waaaayyyyy too clean!!
Some guys like to scratchbuild the most interesting things.
I was looking around the hanger today and noticed these modeling “flaws”, and thought you might enjoy that real life isn’t always as perfect as we sometimes like to model. I gurantee you, your paint job looks 100 times better than at least 60% of the real aircraft out there!!! LOL I had another piper in this morning that in the tail you could read on the skin the thickness of the aluminum as .020"…for all of you who like to try and scale down your thicknesses, good luck!!! LOL Unfortunately he took off before I had a chance to snap that pic.
The panel shot is a plane that someone just recently purchased that had all of those wires wrapped and tangled up in the yokes…imagine that!! Not to mention there was a radio held up with zip-ties!!
The Pilatus is a '96 model, and is super clean. Yes the ladder is real, and strapped in the tail of the plane. The rest of the pics were from 3 various pipers. All of these pics were taken today, and are 4 different planes in our hanger…ENJOY!![:p][;)][;)]
The nice thing about building models is that you don’t have to comply with AC 43, or ADs, IPMs, MRMs, STCs, AMOs, AMEs, the FAA or TC, ICAO, DARs or even PRMs! (spot the Avionics student with three weeks to go who’s mighty tired of his air regulations class)
My friend’s dad has an airplane-dakota, and when he was wiping the underside, something projecting from the flaps snapped right off!(it was a part of the airplane) and a similar thing happened to his tail fin.
I mean, seriously, is that thing made out of stretched plastic?
A bunch of years ago we were trying to get 3 or 4 A-26s ready to go on contract and the boss had hired a bunch of high school kids to be “gofers and helpers”. I had just finished removing the nicks from the props on one of the planes and the boss told one of the kids to paint the prop black. When the kid asked him what paint to use, the boss laughed and said “Anti-skid black, it’ll help it grip the air better” and walked off. A couple of hours later, while taking a break, the kid walks in, grabs a coke and announces “Boy that anti skid is paint is hard to apply”. When we had all cleared the break area, we found all 6 blades had been brush painted from hub to tip, front and back with Anti-skid black. Boss got to clean it off.
[:D]Thanks, that was great. Now maybe I will relax a little on my current project. Like if I break off that rear antenna post a third time maybe I’ll just leave it off…
Like when I was in the Navy. Just had a new recruit come aboard ship (CVN-65 Enterprise), and reported to the chief in the aviation powerplants workshop. The first thing the chief had this kid do, was to go to the ship’s supply office and request a gallon of ‘prop-wash’!
Actually, not all the excitement was created by something we did. The spring before the prop incident, one of the boss’s friends called, told him he had purchased a Cessna 195 which had been sitting on a field in Colorado and would the boss go pick it up, ferry it home and get it annualed. So he and Jack, one of the other mechanics jump into the 210 on a Monday morning and head to Colorado. By Wednesday afternoon the 195 is ready to fly but weather holds them up. Bright and early Friday morning, with the boss flying the 195 and Jack flying the 210, they head for home. According to Jack, the boss decided to see how the 195 would perform (stalls, spins, chandelles and rolls) on the way. Anyway they get home late Friday afternoon and after all of us rubber necking the 195, we push it into the maintenance hanger.
Monday morning by 9:30 or so, Jack and one of the other mechanics have started the Annual Inspection on the 195, I was in the office on one phone trying to locate some parts and the boss is on the other phone arguing with either the FAA or the Forestry Service about something. All of a sudden, Jack walks in, his face as white as a sheet and says to the boss “I got something to show you”. They’ve been removing the panels on the plane and Jack had taken off the wing root panels. He grabs a flashlight, hands it to the boss and points at the opening at the wing root and says " take a look". Boss turns on flashlight, looks in and says “Fecal matter”! After a few minutes during which he looks at the other side of the airplane and says much the same thing but with much more emphasis, he hands the flashlight to me. I look in and say “Holy Fecal Matter”! For those of you who don’t know, the Cessna 195 has a cantilever wing (no struts) and the wings are held on by special mounts with bolts thru them. Except in this case, all four bolts (two per wing) had been removed and replaced with drift pins. Apparently the previous owner had decided to have the airplane disassembled and trucked to him. The mechanic he had hired had gotten to the point where the wings were about ready to come off when the owner sold the plane, so he (the mechanic) hooked up everything he had disconnected (fuel lines, misc wiring etc) but forgot to reinstall the wing mount bolts (!!!). That was the last time we worked on an outside airplane for the 10 or so years I worked there after that.
