Slowly rebuilding my fleet after a house fire. Scratch built P-63 from Model Aviation magazine. Only real changes I made from the first one are removable wing, horizontal and vertical stabs and spruce stringers on the fuselage sides as I crushed a few balsa ones hand launching. Went with Russian livery as I believe they were the only ones to use them in combat.
I'm looking for recommendations for a balsa RC kit for use with an electric motor.
I've got experience flying gliders and used to do a little bit of Nitro flying back in the early 90s. Looking for a kit with a wing not much bigger than 40" - smaller is fine too. I don't have a lot of other requirements, just something fun, not too fast, and relatively easy for a rusty operator to fly.
I appreciate the small models, and I’ve built a few myself, but RC is my focus. I’d love to hear from you guys, and pics are always welcome!
Thoughts on how to do this properly?
I can laser cut 1/16 or 1/8 lamacoid plates (strong modified abs/acrylic)
Or 3d pring this case adapter out of tpu or poly pla+ or petg.
Trying to do this "by the book" for a first balsa/nitro build.
Thanks for the input!
(see plate and servo below)
I use mahogany because it's strong, great for carving, and it's what I have. On smaller models, I use popsicle sticks. Making a 4-blade prop is twice the fun as making a 2-blade prop. Maybe more so. That knife was murder on my arthritis, so I splurged on a fancy ergonomic handle for $9. It's fantastic. The deer, Blacktails, are Hansel (being silly), Gretel, and Mom in the background. They drop by a couple of times a day to shit on the lawn and stare at us until we give them a treat.
Slowly but surely, I got hung up trying to come up with a way to lock the wings when lowered using 1 servo. I feel i need to keep trying.
working on only my second real kit, guillows morse *s4c
i have one wing pretty much complete, but I'm not sure how I'm supposed to properly bend/break pieces to add the dihedral
thanks!
theo
101" span ziroli AT-6 with G-62 and Robart retracts
Newb here, first stick and tissue build. I want a silver finish for this static build. If I put the silkspan on, it shrinks and tightens and is smooth, but my experience with paints suggests that if I then apply any liquid to this surface it is going to expand and sag again. I imagine I will need to prime then spray or brush on a silver paint of one kind or another, but how will this affect the tightness of the silkspan? I am also considering a metallic shiny adhesive tape. I have followed some plastic aircraft kit builds that use Bare-metal foil, but I feel this won't work on tissue? I also wonder if you can use spray stick on grocery store aluminum foil to stick foil to a stick and tissue model? I would be grateful for any thoughts you guys have on this issue.
DIY magnetic building board, not sure what type of adhesive works best
Took the guts from a hobbyzone champ and put everything onto this tiger moth from easy built. Cant wait to fly it!
building the Guillows Stuka kit #508, instructions are dogshit and it seems I placed the keel part too high and now the wing isn't fitting right. what's the best way to fix this? or do i just leave as is
Starting to look like a real airplane. Fuselage is 16" long.
After fixing the rudder, i gave the moth another flight and it was wonderful. I suspect i will be doing more of these!
Saito FG-90 with starter is heavy. Needed some lead in the tail to balance.
Haha! The tiger moth flies! Sorry we didnt get much video, it was about a one minute flight before it was apparent that i needed to tweak the rudder a little, and then it started raining anyway.
As expected, it likes to float around on about 30% throttle, maybe less after i get it turning a bit more reliably. I love it though! I cant wait to get back out there.
I have a bunch of old plans lying around that I also had scanned and digitized and I was wondering if there's a program or method I can use to make parts such as ribs and formers on those plans into .stl or 3d printable files.
For context of the plane, see: https://www.reddit.com/r/RCPlanes/comments/1lrc9wq/bienchen_compact_rc_sport_model_for_beginners/
(3-channel, 5g servos, 8A ESC, 1108 4000kv, 5x3 prop, 350mah 2S, ~135g take off weight)
My first balsa plane after a couple of 3D-printed planes and foamies. I really like it, as it takes rough landings decently well.