Custom built Spitfire with epp

[Tobias Keller]

Hello everyone,
I make this Thread to show you the building process of my Spitfire made with 3mm epp.

 

[Tobias Keller]

At first I always start with a Plan of the plane.

 

[Tobias Keller]

When I'm happy with the look of the plan I cut out the fuselage and start building up the skeleton of it.
As you can see, I also cut out smaller pieces which later give the whole form to the fuselage.

 

[Tobias Keller]

After attaching the smaller pieces (on both sides) which give the round form of the fuselage, I installed the servos for Elevator and Rudder, as well as the reciever (in this case a 1,5 gramm spektrum reciever from ebay).

For this build I am using a Hacker A05-10s motor, 4x 2.2g servos and a 5A esc.

 

[Tobias Keller]

The next step schould be to make the wings. I sketched a plan on one half of the wing so I can see where I need to place the rips for the wingparts and also marked where I need to place the Aileron servos.

 

[Tobias Keller]

As you may have noticed, I attached the two lower bodysides and sketched the two winghalfs on the epp.
In order to make the whole fuselage stronger and more rectilinear I added 0,5 x 3 mm carbon stripes at the top.

 

[Tobias Keller]

This middlepiece is where the two winghalfs being attached with the fuselage.



The rips inside of the wings consist of 1mm balsa wood and hav a typical wing shape.

 

[Tobias Keller]

Now I glued the winghalfs together (I use uhu por for all the gluing) and with the 1mm gap we can see a nice V shape.
I also cut out the ailerons and glued in the aileronservos.

The next step is to solder some extensions for the Servocable and to cover the winghalfs.

To cover the wing is a bit tricky because the upper part is a bit bigger than the lower part of the wing. In this case I always take some paper, sketch the wing on it, cut it out and hold it in place. I do that, because than I can see where I need to ad some material without loosing useable EPP.

After this step, I attached the wing to the fuselage.



Later on I attached the elevator (glued with uhu por on each side of the fuselage) and finished the cover of it.


After attaching the rudder , adding some colour (I only had some acryl colours laying arroung) the plane looks like this

 

[Tobias Keller]

The plane has a total weight about 120g and a wingspan around 70cm.

With the 2s 300mah it goes in the air like a roket and flies smooth as a trainer.
The rollrate could be a bit higher but its enough to make some rolles.

Overall I love this Spitfire and soon I will make an Buildthread about my P40e Kittyhawk.