Josh Bixler
Member
Amazing job colorex! Build up Scratch building is a real art. I love your ingenuity with the wheel. you make me want to pull out some plans and balsa!
Jb
Jb
Baker McMillen Cadet II
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I'm flattered, Josh! Thanks for your appreciation! I'm glad you like it!
PTRogers85
One 2 FLY
Very nice job! I love Balsa kits, they are getting harder to find bc of all of the ARF and RTFs. I'm glad someone has some patiences. Good Job
Thanks. Looking forward to building out of foam as well.
Thanks. Oh, to top it off, it's not a kit. It's a scratch build from a plan. I had to cut out the pieces my self.
I think you can order patience from HobbyKing, only problem is that shipping is too expensive.
You really need a lot of it ;-)
Building from plan as the first projekt is something else.
It is a lot easier if you have a club and all materials at hand together with the tools needed.
Do you have dope for the tissue or how are you getting the tissue to fasten to the balsa and finishing the surface? The tissue must be coated not to let the air slip through it.
You can skip the water if you tighten the tissue when you apply it. There are many ways to do it.
I got the first? balsa kit from HobbyKing, the Cuckoo.
I have some pictures http://www.ripamfk.com/html/Patrik/cuckoo/index.html - sorry but the text is in swedish. Dope is not odorless ;-)
:: Crash and Rebuild ::
OK, I crashed the plane, without even flying the maiden. What happened was I left it in front of an open window, and the wind threw it down into the floor. No major damage was done, Just the back part of the fuselage had broken off.
This is what I had to fix.
Pieces put back on with superglue. Now I only have to put it together.
Ahh, I'm fixin this up anyway, I'll cover it again, add hinges, fix it so I can make it RC later on:
I stripped the tissue off, fixed some weak points, washed off old glue, (I use CA for the balsa and white glue for the paper, so I just wet everything down to remove remaining covering.)
Here are the hinges, just like pgerts showed me. This works awesome!
Thanks, pgerts!
OK, I crashed the plane, without even flying the maiden. What happened was I left it in front of an open window, and the wind threw it down into the floor. No major damage was done, Just the back part of the fuselage had broken off.
This is what I had to fix.
Pieces put back on with superglue. Now I only have to put it together.
Ahh, I'm fixin this up anyway, I'll cover it again, add hinges, fix it so I can make it RC later on:
I stripped the tissue off, fixed some weak points, washed off old glue, (I use CA for the balsa and white glue for the paper, so I just wet everything down to remove remaining covering.)
Here are the hinges, just like pgerts showed me. This works awesome!
Thanks, pgerts!
Cool plane! I don't think I'd have enough patience to build something like this. I wonder if these hinges work with foam.
Thread probably rips through foam. Tape would be better.
ananas1301
Crazy flyer/crasher :D
Awesome!
I love the plane! Though I don´t really wanna try out flying balsa planes because their crashs alsmost everytime lead to broken stuff.
A love the fact that you just want to do anything RC and just use all things around you to realise that!
My respects for that! Keep up the work
I love the plane! Though I don´t really wanna try out flying balsa planes because their crashs alsmost everytime lead to broken stuff.
A love the fact that you just want to do anything RC and just use all things around you to realise that!
My respects for that! Keep up the work
Awesome!
A love the fact that you just want to do anything RC and just use all things around you to realise that!
My respects for that! Keep up the work
Thanks, I use what I got!
I think balsa is one of the most durable materials for building model planes. Certainly a lot more durable than foam.
BUT - you must build correct and not do any constructions made of glue..............
And - why do you want to crash your plane?
My balsa planes fly better than my foam ones. Don't get me wrong, foam is great and has it's place but balsa is NIIIIICE!
ananas1301
Crazy flyer/crasher :D
I am not willing to crash any of my planes but since I´m only flying for about 1,5 years now I don´t feel really sure about flying faster planes. I have a Parkzone Extra 300 and I can control it, not perfectly though so its just circles and stuff sometimes inverted etc., but everything else is too fast for me. So what I wanted to do is first try all that more aerobatic stuff out with foamies because they can fly much slower and have comparably great 3d cepabilities. Thats what I´ve got my Event 3D for. I am planning a shocky as well. I got all the components lying around so just need to get a cut out or scratchbuild one.
My problem is that I think that I would crash a balsa plane because they are faster and therefore I would get into more stressed situations which will lead to crashing them.
However, I know that there are balse planes that don´t fly fast at all! See Precision Aerobatics Addiction! (<- Great plane btw, I think it will be my first balsa!)
So what I´m planning to do is just wait a little and get a bit better at flying instead of immediately crashing a balsa plane which will be more expensive to repair and take more time as well.
The plane looks very promising Colorex (or Andre? what do you prefer?) planing on making a video of it soon
Thanks,
Whichever,
I'm not that good at video editing, and my up speed makes uploads to YouTube take a long time. So, maybe a short video.
:: Stripping the Plane ::
I remade my hinges, the more you do them the better they get. Double loops this time.
:: Covering ::
I used the polyester silk tissue to cover the fuselage, it's 20 times stronger than tissue paper, but it has to be glued on with superglue.
Notice the texture. It is waaay more scale looking with real fabric!
Nicely done edge,
Not so nicely done edge. I'll get better at it.
