{"id":1511,"date":"2015-05-08T19:20:04","date_gmt":"2015-05-08T23:20:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/volareproducts.com\/blog\/?p=1511"},"modified":"2015-05-08T19:20:04","modified_gmt":"2015-05-08T23:20:04","slug":"24-days-later","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/volareproducts.com\/new2024\/24-days-later\/","title":{"rendered":"24 Days Later…"},"content":{"rendered":"

No, this isn’t a zombie story…or maybe…<\/p>\n

Back in Mid April, I wrote about my Peanut Tailwind that got caught in a tree.\u00a0 Near the end of the long post, I said: “At least I can go visit its final resting place.”\u00a0 Indeed, I went by the tree nearly every day.\u00a0 We’ve had violent winds, thunderstorms, beautiful days, and even an earthquake (yes, in Michigan!) – and the plane remained stuck in the tree (except for one wing panel which had blown down about a week after).<\/p>\n

Well, today, I dragged my dogs out there and looked up – the plane was not there!\u00a0 So I started looking on the pine-needle covered ground…nothing.\u00a0 It took a couple minutes, but then I saw it – it was now about 10 feet up and just sitting on a branch.\u00a0 I got a stick and coaxed it loose and it fell right to the ground.\u00a0 Another quick search located the noseblock and prop.<\/p>\n

The model is really iin pretty good shape – the tissue suffered the most.\u00a0 Red Esaki is notorious (to me) for fading.\u00a0 Well 3-plus weeks of sun and rain really drained the color.\u00a0 There are also loose and missing patches of tissue.<\/p>\n

Now…what to do.\u00a0 Well, for me, the choice is clear:\u00a0 repair and recover.\u00a0 This wouldn’t be too hard of a job if it weren’t for those tissue stripes – AND the gold letters.\u00a0 ~sigh~\u00a0 Those letters were a pain to install.\u00a0 I am not good at lettering and these were particularly troublesome the first time around.\u00a0 So, do I leave as much of the original tissue as I can and recolor it – or do I strip it completely and start fresh, including new stripes and letters?<\/p>\n

Stay tuned…<\/p>\n

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