All New Soda Can Spitfire

[JLO]

It has been a year since my last build. I had a customer want a spitfire built from RC. Here are some pics of the finished build. It took about 75 cans and 60+ hours.

The same guy is wanting a P38 lightening. That will be a fun one!

[ct ertz]

Awesome. That paper is too stiff and sharp for me!
CT

[DanOK9]

Very nice work JLO

And refreshing too.....

[Vermin_King]

I'm always amazed by the can art pieces. Whose template did you use to base this model on?

[JLO]

These are all my own design. Here are a few others I have done...

[VinceM]

Awesome! How do you keep your fingers intact? Do you wear chain mail or Kevlar gloves? And how do you attach them? Solder?

[JLO]

Originally Posted by VinceM

Awesome! How do you keep your fingers intact? Do you wear chain mail or Kevlar gloves? And how do you attach them? Solder?

Believe it or not, I have actually not cut myself(yet)

I had started off using hot glue exclusively. Works great but it gets irritating because of the mess it makes. Though I still use it, I try to use two sided carpet tape whenever possible. That really helps keep the builds much cleaner.

[Gman93643]

Originally Posted by VinceM

Awesome! How do you keep your fingers intact? Do you wear chain mail or Kevlar gloves? And how do you attach them? Solder?

Getting cut comes with the territory if you have worked with cans long enough! My hands are so used to it I don't even feel it when I get a minor one!

A spitfire out of RC cola, now that's an interesting color scheme to request. Perhaps he wanted to emulate a supermarine Seafire?

I have always used a green can and then made the insignias out of others. I did mine out of Wal-Mart Sam's choice Mountain Thunder cola:







Anyhow, nice job. Interesting use of carpet tape in the construction as well....

[pravin]

i could not see any images in the article,
do i have to do any thing to see them or they are removed by now?=pravin

[rockpaperscissor]

Great work and nice photos. I didn't realize how large your models were until I got to the photo of the A-10. I have enough trouble coaxing paper into shape sometimes. doing the same thing with aluminum is pretty amazing.