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Here's one in red and white. Looks good in any color scheme.

Really well done Barney. Would love to see one in 1/32.

All my attempts at pinstriping have resulted in in failure. Double taping inside/ outside 1/64" tape was too difficult for tight radius curves. Painting the scallops the pinstripe color and masking the stripe and painting the scallop color also proved too difficult. Again the tight curves were the problem. Decal strips(1/64") break up on tight radius curves. However, all these methods work well for slightly curved and straight runs... Bottom line I'm done with pinstripes! Micks method seems most promising and I look forward to any updates.

But .8' would be about 9 5/8". Good job on your research.

Martin, Used the same stringer method on a vac formed fuse. And made metal panels from thin plastic sheet. The method works well except the stringers pulled off after several pulls. See 1/32 Waco below.

Mick, Really looking forward to your pinstriping method and application as I am getting ready to start paint on a scratch built Waco SRE that also has pinstriping. Do you have the book The Gee Bee Racers? It has a 3 view drawing of an R2 in it. Sadly, the drawing is small and doesn't have any dimensions but it may be useful in determining proportions and wing dimensions.

In any case we're talking about a pinstripe that would be about 1/80" wide in 1/32 scale. Dark blue and black would appear identical to the naked eye in that scale.

Very nice,clean build. More civil A/C!

So you will be printing decals of the pinstripes. Sounds like a good idea. In the past I've cut out pinstripes from Microscale trim sheet. Did not work to well as there was breakage and curves were near impossible. I'm getting close to the painting stages of a 1/32 scratch Waco SRE, that oddly enough needs PS. Experiments with triple taping show promise( 1/64" chart pak tape between mask tape pull chart pak tape and brush paint). See photo below of 1/64" ps.

It is amazing how many different shades of red there are. I'm glad you narrowed it down to two. The big question is how to do the scallop pinstriping?

Very much like the smoke and matte effect you've achieved!

Are you building the Williams bros. Gee Bee? What is your plan since the color match would be limited to the red decal shade.

Down and dirty scratch building will never go away. Most modellers do not and will never understand the intricacies of CAD and 3D printing. Having said that it will be a useful tool in the now future. Really love your work especially since I'm a proponent of all civil aircraft builds.

Very cool! A sure winner!

Steve Your on the right track with vaccing the canopy. I have found that by taping off the master with thin vinyl trim (I use Monocote trim sheet) you get well defined slightly raised areas that aid in painting and/or decalling. I only build in 1/32 so don't know if this technique is doable in1/72 ! Cheers

Been looking for progress on the build forever! The wait was worth it! Fantastic and much respect for doing it in 1/72. As a scratch builder, 2 years is reasonable. Below my 1/32 Waco YMF5. Strut and cabane supported bipes are the most difficult. Cheers

Martin, I'm too far into the build to make any shape changes. The model fuse was stick built with sheet plastic exactly like the old balsa and tissue kits. The wings and tail surfaces are solid plexiglas. At the time I was experimenting with different methods. My current method is mostly vac fuse and resin wings. I steal parts from kits and any other source ( the seats in the pic are from 1/32 toys).

Very nice whittlin' on the YQC Martin.

Hi Martin, The SRE is a rebuild of a total scratchbuild I did years ago. Don't know if the wing curve is correct; it's on the plans. The Waco will be on wheels with proper wheel pants. BTW Barney nice renditions of some classic AC's.

Martin, Build the big stuff in1/48 and the small stuff in 1/32 LOL! Below is a current project of a Waco SRE 1/32.

Martin, There is a Waco UIC/ UKC cabin 1/48 vac kit in existence. Originally produced by vac wings 48. I believe donsmodelworks.com has the molds but is currently OOP. I have the kit and its nicely done. Made an attempt to build it but quit. I can build total scratch builds but not vac form kits! Go figure. As far as marketing civvies, you,me and maybe a couple a dozen other people have an interest. I know the work involved to scratchbuild. Do yourself a favor and build one offs that you love. Cheers

Appreciate the kind comments on the J3 cub. In a nutshell, the conversion involves vac forming the cowl, scratching the engine and LG. From the firewall back the Revell kit measures out very close to 3 view plans of the J3. Martin, Sorry to hijack your thread. The point of posting the pic of the cub was to illustrate that there are other options to building GA AC. Namely, conversions, total scratch builds and building up decades old kits. I totally understand your commitment to 1/48 scale for the reasons you stated. Still, I have a 1/48 Waco Cabin and man is it tiny! Just me, I guess. Cheers

Light/GA aircraft really need to be done in 1/32 given their small size to begin with IMO. Also, the rising popularity of 1/32 scale in general would surely generate more sales. I only build civil AC 1/32 so I'm biased. Below is my J3 Cub converted from the Revell Super Cub kit.