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About rayschilke

  • Birthday 04/14/1961

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    Lehigh Acres Florida
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    Astrophotograpy. modelling of all sorts

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    Following now getting to ready for my first ship after many Dumas Chris crafts and aircraft wooden kits. Looks great so far. Ray
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    Spars going on alright and getting ready to start adding details and rigging soon.
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    Getting ready to insert the spars and wing leading edges and wasn't happy with my ceiling tile as a pin base. I repurposed 2 of my wife's cloth fabric bolt cardboard inserts. They are a perfect length and accept pins readily and hold tight. Also used green painters tape to hold the plans to them as the green tape holds but comes off the plans without ripping them. Wax paper laid out and ready to put ribs on and do 400 grit final sanding of each part. At least I am done with almost all of the wing ribs. They were tedious.
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    Greats shots. Thanks for the compliment. It is a hobby that really is all about what equipment you have. Tough to learn everything as every aspect from tracking, capture, and processing seems like it's own college course. Keeps the brain young though. This plane is about to be a challenge with cable rigging. No do overs like throwing out a bad picture file. But I do have another sopwith build log in this group to reference. It is a good source for me and a blessing to have😀
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    Thanks sir. I have a bit of change into my telescope gear. I have a wife that forgives my hobby costs because I ignore her sewing costs lol
  20. rayschilke
    This is my main hobby now. Modelling has been life long (since I was 8 years old) but Astrophotography has hooked me.
  21. rayschilke
    Switched up to a ceiling tile for a background for pins. Much better than wood. Spars are coming along. It is nice to have this hobby as a back up for cloudy days when I can't do star photography. Spar progress is going nice but it does get hindered by an occasional beer break. I have begun to use kids stick glue to just hold the spars to the plans to just to hold their place on the plans. It is nice because they just pop right off when it will be time to put in the wing spars and metal parts.
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    Yep. Less tedious than my other hobby, astrophotography, but both are still relaxing.😊
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    I need to change mine but need 100 posts before I can change it. I sent a message to admin asking permission for an early change. Thanks for the tip. Ray
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    Wing spars are gonna be a slow go.
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    Thanks. Wings next so now the slow part lol
  30. rayschilke
    The wings are next and look to pose a challenge due to being time consuming.
  31. rayschilke
    The prop starts from this. Pics on google help get the angle correct. Ends up thinner and sleek looking. Lining up the 3 parts to be laminated is pretty straight forward.
  32. rayschilke
    I am building the Model Airways 1/16th Sopwith Camel. So far I have built the engine and shaped and installed the Propeller. I did a "black wash" of the cast metal pieces after the completion prior to installing the prop. I did shape the Prop by only sanding with a palm sander. Whittling was not necessary.

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