New here - addicted to foam-board already!

[Earl Turner]

Hi all - happened upon some videos of Flite-Test foam-board models about a month ago - now I cant stop building. My wife is threatening to smash them. Here is my first model - a Pietenpol, and my second one, a Simple Cub, that I modified into a J2 cub & painted it up like the one I used to fly 40 years ago.

 

[Reckless]

I’m hooked too. I think our wives must know each other. Lol!
I have built the Mini Corsair, Mini Mustang, Storch, F-22, and a custom scaled up F-22 loosely based on the mini. Also since my Transmitter is antique, I just bought a Taranis and a couple receivers. Lol
Your planes are really nice.

 

[thenated0g]

Looks great, keep it up. I also like finishing my planes and taking time to paint them, even if they are going to crash soon

 

[French]

Welcome to the addiction, I mean hobby, Earl.

Nice looking fleet so far. Your first two look way better than my first two did.

 

[RMDC]

Those are some amazing paint jobs. If I couldn't see the edges, I would swear they couldn't possibly be foamboard.

 

[Earl Turner]

Thanks for the compliment. Painted with tremclad, using a foam brush - glossy, sticks like glue & the brush marks disappear.

 

[FoamyDM]

did you happen to measure the Weight Add? Beautiful job! is the strip a decal?

Earl if you build them in Feb. Submit them to the Build-Ruary challenge and try to build a few more this month.

 

[Earl Turner]

Didn't weigh it, although I think it is probably heavy - used Elmer's foam board which is stiffer & heavier than the dollar store stuff & 2 coats of Tremclad. The stripe is masked off & painted also with Tremclad, as is the registration.

 

[earthsciteach]

Beautiful work! Do they fly as good as they look?

 

[Earl Turner]

Beautiful work! Do they fly as good as they look?

Thank you. Will find out in the spring.

 

[Earl Turner]

Two more on the go

Here is another simple cub, this time modeled after a PA 18 Super Cub that I spent 3 years instructing in, on floats & skis, back in the 80's - Registration CF-FFF

My next one is an E2 cub

 

[iBigNTastyi]

That E2 looks pretty sweet!

 

[foamtest]

Wow these are awesome!

Hi, my name is Ryan and I am addicted to foam board planes.

Welcome to AA, also known as Airplanes Anonymous

 

[Daniel86]

Builder newbie

Hi all.
I started building planes about 2 months ago....
All disaster...
Built friday evening, crashed saturday afternoon....
Now i found the Mini Arrow.
I stocked up 2206 2300kv motors, 25A Encs and 6x4.5 bullnose props.
I made my own 3s1p 18650 batteries. 150g with leads and connectors.
After crashing the last one i decided to build a bulletproof center pod. I made it of 5mm foamed PVC board.
It turned out 125g, which is not bad imo.
But after putting all the pieces on the scale it's little over 400 grams without the wing itself.
I don't think the Stock mini arrow wing has enough lift for this weight. Should i scale up the plans? Or just lenghten the wing on the rootcord end.

Any advice will help.

 

[Earl Turner]

Thank you. Work on the E2 progressing.

 

[Earl Turner]

Hi all.

But after putting all the pieces on the scale it's little over 400 grams without the wing itself.
I don't think the Stock mini arrow wing has enough lift for this weight. Should i scale up the plans? Or just lenghten the wing on the rootcord end.

Any advice will help.

I'm not an expert, but with my models, I used the heavier Elmer's foam board and with all that paint, I figured a little extra wingspan couldn't hurt, so I added 4 inches to the standard simple cub. We will see how they fly.

 

[Earl Turner]

Here is the E2, almost done. I will move over to the Swappables & other FR designs forum under *unofficial* FT Simple Cub for further updates. I still have to do the landing gear detail & wing struts.

http://forum.flitetest.com/showthread.php?35360-*Unofficial*-FT-Simple-Cub

 

[FoamyDM]

It looks amazing

 

[iBigNTastyi]

Very impressive! I'm excited to hear how it flies!

 

[Earl Turner]

Very impressive! I'm excited to hear how it flies!

posted a video under "videos" thread.