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Spotlight
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Bob Isaack's Warbirds
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In this issue
of Spotlight we present the handsome free-flight
models born of Bob Isaack's talent. Here, Bob describes how
he created his outstanding detail work.
"This P-51B was scratch-built from Mike Midkiff plans.
The details were rendered with fairly simple techniques, as
follows... "
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"This model was covered with JCI tissue (olive drab) and
doped with nitrate dope. The white letters were cut from Coverite
"Coverlite" synthetic tissue, and applied with nitrate
thinner. The thinner must be used very sparingly to prevent
the dark color from shining thru the light colored tissue." |
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"Control surface markings (white) were added using
a Pentel "Milky" gel roller pen acquired from
an art supply store. This was also the technique used to
add panel markings; this system looks good on aircraft covered
with "dark" tissue."
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"The windows to the rear of the cockpit are glued to the
inside of a piece of 1/64 plywood wrapped over the front and
rear formers..This gives a relistic "lip" or edge
to those windows."
The inside rear of the cockpit was painted with Modelmaster
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"German "Kill" markings came off the internet
- I simply printed the page, cut the markings out of the
bond paper, and glued them on with white glue. The antenna
at the rear of the cabin was made with .006" monofilament
fishing line."
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"The Mustang does 90 seconds on 5 loops of 1/8” supersport,
and will be flown in the FAC Scale event at Geneseo."
Here are a few more models Bob built, using the same detailing
techniques...
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This Swiss EKW-3603 WWII fighter was scratchbuilt from a Bill
Henns plan. It regularly does 2 minutes on three loops of
1/8” supersport rubber, and is being saved for WWII
mass launch at Geneseo this year.
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