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Piper PA-17 Vagabond
 Here's my just finished Piper PA-17 Vagabond, modeled after the one that won Grand Champion Classic at Oshkosh in the late 1970s.The model is from Don Srull's plans and it has a 24 inch wingspan with the all up weight is just under 50 grams. Covered in Jap Tissue that was chalked with yellow artist chalk on the reverse side to make it a little more opaque. Prop is an old Paloweno wood job from Japan in the 50s and is finished with Krylon and with tiny PC generated Sensenich transfers.I've made the wing removable and it is held on with 8 (4 each in the wing and fuselage) tiny earth magnets. The struts also attach to the fuselage with a tiny magnet at each contact point. These magnets are surprisingly strong and very light weight in comparison to the strength. The struts attach to the wing with cut down mini 1/16 diameter pinpoint hinges which allow the struts to fold flat to the wing bottom for transportation and look far more scale like than a strut glued to the wing bottom. On most full scales if the strut is not faired in you can see where it attached with a nut/bolt. I've seen so many models including big RC ships that have a strut glued or screwed to a wing with no attempt made to make the attachment point look scale.Oh well, pet peeves I guess. Mike Welshans |
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