The brush I knackered with oil based paint was an Aztec. Mate (who is speaking to me now) says oil based paints are fine with the Badger. Problem with the Aztec is to clean it all out, you need to take it apart to clean the fiddly bits, and that affects the warranty. With the Badger it’s not such a problem.
I used a mates good quality airbrush with compressor to paint my R/C Spit.
Finnicky job as it took longer to clean all the bits in between colours than the actual painting, and despite all my best efforts to keep it clean, he cursed me roundly months later when he discovered umpteen layers of paint on all the fiddly internal bits. Needless to say, that was the end of my airbrush adventures. His advice was to use acrylics with it.
Did anyone mention the other Elly who needs no introduction.
There’s also Shelila Scott-not a warbird pilot, but an accomplished civil aviatrix who piloted her Piper Comanche ( I think) around the globe-solo.
Building and attempting to fly a radio controlled plane without expert guidance or instruction, not to mention insurance is exceedingly dangerous.Its certainly not for youngsters.
Spend a fortune on it, build it yourself, without any previous experience, over gawd knows how many months, fire up the engine and watch it very quickly become a balsa cluster bomb, take it home in a bin bag.
I’m with Radar on this issue.
Health and Safety laws are there for a very good reason, and the museum has a legal obligation to comply with them or face the consequences. No amount of teddy throwing will make the slightest difference to this basic fact.
Face it, it’s here to stay so if you want to sit in an old cockpit Rob, you’d better get the piggy bank out.
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