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Roden: Pt-17 KaydetPosted: Friday, July 24, 2020 - 11:07 AM UTC
Roden has released a 1/32 scale PT-17 Kaydet and here Kevin Brant has a look in the box with a quick build.
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Jessie_C
British Columbia, Canada
Joined: September 03, 2009
KitMaker: 6,965 posts
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Joined: September 03, 2009
KitMaker: 6,965 posts
AeroScale: 6,247 posts
Posted: Friday, July 24, 2020 - 02:02 PM UTC
I think that the wings look pretty good. Take a look at a real one.
Edit. Direct linking to the images didn't work, so lets try something else.
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Note that the fabric is stretched nice and tightly, without much of the old 'starving cow' look which model companies used to love giving us.
Edit. Direct linking to the images didn't work, so lets try something else.
picture 1
picture 2
picture 3
Note that the fabric is stretched nice and tightly, without much of the old 'starving cow' look which model companies used to love giving us.
Posted: Saturday, July 25, 2020 - 01:57 AM UTC
Jessie
Thanks, I should take a more detailed image. There is strips and rivet details at every spur on the wings, and in between it is flat. I think I may have poorly explained it too. Thanks for the reference images.
Kevin
Thanks, I should take a more detailed image. There is strips and rivet details at every spur on the wings, and in between it is flat. I think I may have poorly explained it too. Thanks for the reference images.
Kevin
Jessie_C
British Columbia, Canada
Joined: September 03, 2009
KitMaker: 6,965 posts
AeroScale: 6,247 posts
Joined: September 03, 2009
KitMaker: 6,965 posts
AeroScale: 6,247 posts
Posted: Saturday, July 25, 2020 - 07:52 AM UTC
I think that those are trying to be rib tapes and stitching. If so, they can be sanded almost entirely away; you don't see much more than subtle bumps on a properly finished wing.
Still, it's better to have them to be removed than not have them and need to add them.
Still, it's better to have them to be removed than not have them and need to add them.