Vought V-173 Flying Pancake
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6 January 2014, 21:45
Greg SolomonGot some yellow paint on my hotcake and I'm re-sanding and polishing before another coat.
22 January 2014, 18:49
Greg SolomonThanks! Gotta do something to while-away the hours up here in Alaska in the dark and cold!
22 January 2014, 18:57
Greg SolomonOur local model club has a show/contest next month and I plan to display the V-173 on a plate with a fork and knife... maybe even a small syrup container... LOL! People will eat it up!
22 January 2014, 19:32
Martin JakobsenGreg what about putting it in the frying pan😉
Would be hot stuff
22 January 2014, 19:42
Greg SolomonOooh! Even better! Then I don;t have to worry about kids trying to pour syrup on it or putting a fork in it..
22 January 2014, 19:44
Greg SolomonMan! I should've painted a base white before painting yellow on this bugger. I've layed down 2 coats (with drying and sanding between) and still need another coat to keep the gray plastic from showing through! I'm afraid I'm going to fill in all the panel lines. Will need to let it dry a few days (its been raining here for a week!) then polish and re-paint the yellow, eventually I'll get to paint the silver underside... that should be a one-coat process.
23 January 2014, 18:07
Greg SolomonFinished my Pancake. Loved how the wooden props turned out. and they spin freely on metal-on-metal shafts too! But man, that tail wheel is so fragile!
14 February 2014, 18:18
Bernhard SchrockExcellent model Greg! Very clean paint work and realistic wooden look!! I love this pancake🙂
14 February 2014, 18:45
Steve WilsonI missed this!!!
Excellent build Greg, I really like it👍🙂
It's unusually different and a great colour which suits it very well...
14 February 2014, 18:48
Ray SeppalaGreg, you build looks great. The wooden effect on the props is excellent!
17 February 2014, 00:08
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The directions were pretty vague so I accidently glued the air intake louvers too far back into the body and had to add styrine to build them up flush to the front of the body where they should be. The shafts for the props were pretty usuless so I scratch built some with metal tubing. Now they will actually spin! The kit had some xetra parts that were not in the instructions... odd. a pair of completed prop cones and a couple of washer-looking pieces that look like they are part of the prop. I added photo-etch seat harness and control rods and wiring to the cockpit. I made my own canopy mask, using copies in different sizes to have an exact fit. I used the print-outs to cut the masks from tape.
