Painted to look like cowl trim

[Hank Jarrett]

Re: Painted to look like cowl trim

No rocks to be thrown.

Taste is,....well, a matter of taste!

Hank ;-)

[Bird]

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Hank, I'm headed to surgery in the am I will try to get some and post when I can.

[Ragwing nut]

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I'm thinking about painting my '46 BC12D with a "Deluxe" paint job like in the pic below.
I'm not interested in actually acquiring the cowl trim.
But I'm curious if anybody has ever tried painting the lines on the cowl so that from 30 feet away, it looks like it has cowl trim.
What do y'all think? Feasible?

If the pic is accurate, i am fairly certain the odd "D" windows I have for a prewar are actually these for a early postwar deluxe!

[TimHicks]

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Ragwing,
Just to be clear, the picture in my first post is from an old TCraft ad. It is not a picture of my '46.
I don't know the vintage of the airplane in the ad.
In this thread, Hank indicated that the trim was available in '41. And Louie's '41 has the front part of the trim. So that seems to confirm what Hank said.
So maybe we can assume that the ship in the ad is a '41.

I may have used the word "Deluxe" erroneously in my first post. I've seen this paint scheme called "Deluxe" in the past (on this forum). I didn't mean to imply anything about my model or the model of the airplane in the ad.
Tim

[Ryan]

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Airplane pictured is a BC12D Deluxe built right after ( or even during the end) of the war and used for the magazine shots. It may have been assembled from prewar partsf or a "mixed bag" airplane sort of like Hanks 45, which is why it retains some pre war characteristics

[Hank Jarrett]

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Ryan,
I bet you are right. If you look close there are a few pieces missing from the trim. They stop it on the cowl instead of running it all the way back to the door handle. They probably didn't have full sets of the trim still available. It looks like it does have a "blown" windshield like the post war planes and I'm not sure which door it has. Looks like a big compass. A plane built from parts right after the war makes sense. The NC number is not active, but it is between my 41 and 45.

Hank

[Ragwing nut]

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There wer postwar Deluxes, I have the remains of one, but not complete. The d window in the pic is not the same as a prewar deluxe d window. The one I have fits standard prewar tube doors. I will have to dig them out and post a pic.

[Larry Lyons]

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My 41 has the side trim and no D windows. I now have the grill pieces almost ready for return to the nose bowl. Although my grills are post war repoductions they fit my nose bowl, some bowls will not fit the wrap around grill wings.

L

[N95334]

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I found the repo grills very thin and easily to bend so I filled the back of them with exopy and tooth picks to reinforce the exopy. This made them very stiff and strong. After 5 years they are still good and the exopy has stayed in the grills.

[Larry Lyons]

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I was talking about my cast grills being repo's. I have a set of the thin stamped aluminum ones too. I spent one evening straighting them with most of my effort in shrinking the web where stretched. I don't plan on using them as I have a set of cast grills close to ready for mounting.

L

[TimHicks]

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I tried to simulate the cowl trim by cutting strips of aluminum tape.
After carefully applying the tape and taking these three photos, I decided that I didn't like the look, and immediately removed the tapes.
It doesn't seem to add anything to my airplane.
I think that I will abandon the idea of painting on these stripes and just be content with the existing paint scheme.

[Marv]

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Your right Tim. Maybe paint a pretty girl on there like some of the WW2 military planes. LOL

[dalijohn]

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How does one find out if their aircraft was delivered from the factory as an Ace, Standard or Deluxe model.
Would Forrest have that information?

[1938BF50]

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Start with the FAA info CD. Look for things like "no LH door" for clues. See if anything was added in later paperwork to "upgrade".

Believe it or not, I have a 1940 B that was upgraded to a BC-12D-85 at one time. They went as far as to change the empennage to 2-hinges on the rudder and elevators! Darn shame.