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Mike Booth
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Re: 1/4 scale zero

Postby Mike Booth » April 5th, 2009, 9:06 pm

Awesome, will look great lined up with Steves.
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Gregg Veasey
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Re: 1/4 scale zero

Postby Gregg Veasey » April 5th, 2009, 9:17 pm

Cheers Mike

Now that I've started weathering it that hard I need to continue. Another case of 'why did I start this!' :shock:

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Re: 1/4 scale zero

Postby Gregg Veasey » April 13th, 2009, 8:36 pm

more roundels, new red stripes and more weathering!!!
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Re: 1/4 scale zero

Postby Gregg Veasey » April 13th, 2009, 8:38 pm

and
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Re: 1/4 scale zero

Postby Gregg Veasey » April 13th, 2009, 8:41 pm

couple more...
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Mike Booth
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Re: 1/4 scale zero

Postby Mike Booth » April 14th, 2009, 4:55 pm

Spot on , the Japs had no etch primer and the paint came off in sheets.
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Re: 1/4 scale zero

Postby Gregg Veasey » April 15th, 2009, 9:42 pm

As I said before, now I've started weathering it this hard I don't know when to stop. I can see me ending up with more silver than green at this rate! :D
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Re: 1/4 scale zero

Postby Mike Booth » April 15th, 2009, 10:25 pm

Dont forget some nice biscuit coloured exhaust deposits out of those pipes.
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Gregg Veasey
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Re: 1/4 scale zero

Postby Gregg Veasey » April 19th, 2009, 7:33 pm

Mike, doing the exhausts next!
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Re: 1/4 scale zero

Postby Gregg Veasey » April 19th, 2009, 7:35 pm

and...
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Re: 1/4 scale zero

Postby Gregg Veasey » April 19th, 2009, 7:36 pm

finally for now...
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Mike Booth
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Re: 1/4 scale zero

Postby Mike Booth » April 19th, 2009, 8:00 pm

I reckon you have got that just right mate.
I will look forward to seeing it at Rougham.
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Re: 1/4 scale zero

Postby Gregg Veasey » April 19th, 2009, 8:36 pm

It won't be ready to fly at Rougham but I may take it for static
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Re: 1/4 scale zero

Postby Gregg Veasey » April 22nd, 2009, 11:40 am

Fixed the tail wheel assembly on. The tail cone is removable despite not being able to see the join in the pics
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Re: 1/4 scale zero

Postby Gregg Veasey » April 22nd, 2009, 11:41 am

And the exhausts although they look a funny colour in these pics for some reason. They look OK in the flesh
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Re: 1/4 scale zero

Postby Gregg Veasey » April 28th, 2009, 10:49 pm

removed the cockpit masking!
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Re: 1/4 scale zero

Postby Gregg Veasey » June 17th, 2009, 10:39 pm

Took it to the field tonight. I was all pumped up expecting to test fly it if all went well. The build has taken me 2 1/2 years so to say I was nervous is understatement of the century

This is how it went.

Set the model up but left the cowl off to tune the engine with the new silencer. Put a little bit a fuel in just for test running.

Got the engine running and it needed tweaking. had many start stop and tweaks. With help from the rest of the TJD team and my dad we finally got it running well (remembering that the engine is brand new).

Put the cowl on and there seemed to be no difference.

So I pumped up the retracts, did a full range check and tried some taxi trials.

the wind was pretty strong and the rain clouds were getting darker and darker but it felt like now or never!

It went away lovely so I put the wheels straight up. As I did that one of the doors (that was only temporarily fixed) parted company. no big problem, it was recovered.

A couple of circuits and it felt good despite the blustery conditions. Then the engine died but throttling back regained tick over and I landed. It came in great

I tweaked slightly, put more air in and took straight off. During the second circuit the engine suddenly surged then cut.

Now, if you read this post fully and took it all in you will now the problem!!!!

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Re: 1/4 scale zero

Postby Bob Thompson1894 » June 18th, 2009, 6:10 am

Dont tell me you ran out of fuel! We have all done something like that, may be the human brain is not quite capable of model flying...... :oops:
Please tell me it is undamaged?
My own thing was putting the wing on a model without connecting the ailerons, just to check the c of g, then, because it suddenly stopped raining, test flying it with no ailerons- caught me out big style and spun in!
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Gregg Veasey
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Re: 1/4 scale zero

Postby Gregg Veasey » June 18th, 2009, 9:19 am

Thankfully I got it down in one piece, put more petrol in and flew again.

There are a few little things to sort but all in all a success!

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Mike Booth
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Re: 1/4 scale zero

Postby Mike Booth » June 22nd, 2009, 6:31 pm

Gregg, any chance of an in flight shot?
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