Hello all,
I have been in love with the rearwin speedster since I helped build a few pieces for the full scale model.
A long since out of date kit by “JETCO” pops up every time I search for a model of one and I recently won a bid on a complete kit minus the plans. As luck would have it, outer zone has the plans published! Boy, it has a lot of pieces! So with the recent purchase of this lovely 45 year old kit I have decided to do a build along and an electric conversion all in one.
To start with, I always take an inventory of all the pieces involved in the kit. I found the wood in this particular model to be amazing considering it’s age so not much was required to start the build.
I’ve decided to begin with the wing. I’m using a ceiling tile and wax paper to build on.
I learned from an amazingly talented builder how to remove the die crunched pieces from the sheets and save weight all in one easy step, sand the backside! Here are some pictures of the results:
That’s all I have for now but this was just my set up to begin the wing, hopefully I can get it built tomorrow after work. Please give comments/ encouragement. Some things I need to sort out are servo and aileron routing as well as a battery tray and esc mount.
Thanks for checking!
I have been in love with the rearwin speedster since I helped build a few pieces for the full scale model.
A long since out of date kit by “JETCO” pops up every time I search for a model of one and I recently won a bid on a complete kit minus the plans. As luck would have it, outer zone has the plans published! Boy, it has a lot of pieces! So with the recent purchase of this lovely 45 year old kit I have decided to do a build along and an electric conversion all in one.
To start with, I always take an inventory of all the pieces involved in the kit. I found the wood in this particular model to be amazing considering it’s age so not much was required to start the build.
I’ve decided to begin with the wing. I’m using a ceiling tile and wax paper to build on.
I learned from an amazingly talented builder how to remove the die crunched pieces from the sheets and save weight all in one easy step, sand the backside! Here are some pictures of the results:
That’s all I have for now but this was just my set up to begin the wing, hopefully I can get it built tomorrow after work. Please give comments/ encouragement. Some things I need to sort out are servo and aileron routing as well as a battery tray and esc mount.
Thanks for checking!