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Balsa Wood And Tissue Piper Super Cub

2,829-4-61 ... Circa 1999 ... The partly finished model suspended on my porch railing and photographed from below so the sunlight showed through like an X-ray. I love the way the light shines through the tissue.

 

This is the first model I built as an adult when I became nostalgic about building these things when I was a kid ... I mean when I was a younger kid.

 

I had fond memories of building the wood framework then gluing the tissue to the wood framework. Then spraying the tissue with water, which at first made it all baggy. Then watching it tighten up as it dried until it was nice and tight and smooth.

 

This was just a simple "Guillows" brand kit, built per the instructions.

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Uploaded on June 23, 2008
Taken sometime in 1999