speedbirdted
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Woke up to a triangular box on my porch. Only means one thing
This plane was too cute not to buy lol. A while ago I built one of the original full size ones with a Golden Bee 049 on it but at the time I was more into 3D stuff and ended up selling it off. I had aspirations to do a 200% one with a big 4-stroke for power or something, but never got around to it. Now I get to do another!
Contents of the box. Again a really nicely made kit. I ended up going with the 1/4A power pack option because I'm out of motors/controllers that will fit on it (and unknowingly by doing so I caused my shipping time to go into the 1+ month range ) I also got one of the 020 motor mounts and man is it cute! I might end up throwing some paint on it to look more realistic but it's fine as-is.
Unlike my Eaglet I have no plans to do much stupid ridiculous stuff with this build. I'm going to keep it relatively standard with a couple small exceptions here and there, mostly for aesthetics. And the landing gear. I have a total of one ridiculous idea in mind, and it's the landing gear... you'll see
I started construction just a little bit too. I didn't have much time today before I went to work but I got all the fuselage bits cut out and dry fitted. I think this is how it's supposed to go together? The turtle deck and stringers I'll figure out later.
Only issue here was the central plate doesn't quite line up with the firewall. I hate to even call this a problem since it's so minor, but if you tried to force the firewall in without sanding about 1/32 back on the central plate it might do some bad things to the fuselage sides.
And here's a question primarily aimed at Doug: How does this piece fit in? It seems like trying to fit it in flush with the fuselage sides causes there to be too much of a gap at the rear edge of the fuselage, and trying to bend them together makes the contour of the fuselage just look kind of weird. It also seems a little too tall, like if I put the horizontal stabilizer on it would stick out above it.
This plane was too cute not to buy lol. A while ago I built one of the original full size ones with a Golden Bee 049 on it but at the time I was more into 3D stuff and ended up selling it off. I had aspirations to do a 200% one with a big 4-stroke for power or something, but never got around to it. Now I get to do another!
Contents of the box. Again a really nicely made kit. I ended up going with the 1/4A power pack option because I'm out of motors/controllers that will fit on it (and unknowingly by doing so I caused my shipping time to go into the 1+ month range ) I also got one of the 020 motor mounts and man is it cute! I might end up throwing some paint on it to look more realistic but it's fine as-is.
Unlike my Eaglet I have no plans to do much stupid ridiculous stuff with this build. I'm going to keep it relatively standard with a couple small exceptions here and there, mostly for aesthetics. And the landing gear. I have a total of one ridiculous idea in mind, and it's the landing gear... you'll see
I started construction just a little bit too. I didn't have much time today before I went to work but I got all the fuselage bits cut out and dry fitted. I think this is how it's supposed to go together? The turtle deck and stringers I'll figure out later.
Only issue here was the central plate doesn't quite line up with the firewall. I hate to even call this a problem since it's so minor, but if you tried to force the firewall in without sanding about 1/32 back on the central plate it might do some bad things to the fuselage sides.
And here's a question primarily aimed at Doug: How does this piece fit in? It seems like trying to fit it in flush with the fuselage sides causes there to be too much of a gap at the rear edge of the fuselage, and trying to bend them together makes the contour of the fuselage just look kind of weird. It also seems a little too tall, like if I put the horizontal stabilizer on it would stick out above it.