Grifflyer
WWII fanatic
To begin, I wanna start at the beginning. I got the FT alpha kit as my first speed build kit around christmas of 2016 and she well over 100 flights. As you can guess this is a pretty worn airframe and if it were any other plane I'd just toss her out and build a new one but this one is special to me and "PARTS" of the plane are still flight worthy. So in this thread I'm going to be replacing parts that are tired, redoing parts that are misaligned, adding additional parts to enhance coolness, and add additional strength. Here are some pictures of the plane right now.
So you can see by looking at it that it needs some work and there's also some stuff that doesn't show up on camera or it's just loose and needs replacing.
The first thing I did was to remove the tail feathers because these were EXTREMELY sloppy mostly due to the paper they were mounted to was delaminating.
Next, I removed and replaced the little part that sticks out to mount the servo, because that area would get bashed around when the wing wasn't mounted.
As I said before the paper around where the tail feathers were mounted was delaminating so I peeled the paper of the paper and put down a piece of packing tape with about a quarter inch of overhang to give the future tail feathers a better surface to bond to (after proper sanding).
After that I decided to change up the rear belly section I always thought it was kinda bland (zero offense to the kids at MesaRC they did a GREAT job with the plane, I know, because I've built all three, and they might have left some stuff out to make the planes more beginner friendly) so I decided to add "jet engine" details similar to an F-15 Eagle.
That's all I've got done right now, more to come...



So you can see by looking at it that it needs some work and there's also some stuff that doesn't show up on camera or it's just loose and needs replacing.
The first thing I did was to remove the tail feathers because these were EXTREMELY sloppy mostly due to the paper they were mounted to was delaminating.

Next, I removed and replaced the little part that sticks out to mount the servo, because that area would get bashed around when the wing wasn't mounted.

As I said before the paper around where the tail feathers were mounted was delaminating so I peeled the paper of the paper and put down a piece of packing tape with about a quarter inch of overhang to give the future tail feathers a better surface to bond to (after proper sanding).

After that I decided to change up the rear belly section I always thought it was kinda bland (zero offense to the kids at MesaRC they did a GREAT job with the plane, I know, because I've built all three, and they might have left some stuff out to make the planes more beginner friendly) so I decided to add "jet engine" details similar to an F-15 Eagle.

That's all I've got done right now, more to come...