The Aviation and Maritime Hobbyist

Coming to the end,,, I was still waiting for the mail order items from Sig and Dively Models. I had a lot I could do in the meantime. I went ahead and made the carb heater box for the cowl. This was just a box made from styrene plastic, the fine mesh screen and a frame over the screen. I used a fine tip on a soldering iron to make what looked like welds on the frame and added some of the resin screws. I had painted the box and mesh black beforehand and used some silver paint for the frame. I painted the cowl Cub Yellow (Coverite Black Baron) and added some tabs to the heater box so I could glue it to the inside of the cowl.  I then waited a couple of weeks before adding a clear top coat to fuel proof it.   A full size Cub has two cutouts in the wing center section. One is in leading edge back to the spar. The other is a skylight behind the spar going back several feet. The windscreen covers the front cutout. The skylight is a separate piece of plexiglass. These are...

 Going Scale Plane Crazy,,,  Once I got that big Sig Cub home I gave it a complete inspection. The original builder had used top quality components and accessories. Except for the damage to the covering in the nose area the rest of the plane looked good. The builder had done an excellent job covering and painting this aircraft. He had even added pinked tape in all the right locations (ribs, leading and trailing edges, seams, etc.). The wings needed nothing done to them so I set them aside and gave some thought about what I wanted to do to make this plane stand out.   In previous posts I told how I had been buying RC magazines and books. One of the soft cover books was about making large RC planes. I think it was called "Giant Steps" and had lots of information about engines, radios, covering and detailing. The was one chapter about Bob Nelitz and his super detailed 1/3 scale Piper J-3 Cub. There were page size plans of this Cub included in the article. This Cu...