Approxamately 11 years ago l took up areomodelling and 2 years later started building models. I have accumulated photos of some of my more recent builds and thought l would share with others to help inspire, teach and share some of the ideas that l have come across on my journey thus far. It is a great hobby whether you fly small or larger models, scale or pattern, control line or IMAC, Jets or Pylon there are many skills that play a part in not only flying but the building and assembling. Hope you get something out of the videos and are helpful.
Did you use the original pre bent wire landing gear? if not, what did you go with for the landing gear? The wire kit seems a bit small for the weight of the bird.. Beautiful build-out.
Love the craftsmanship here. Customizing a hangar 9 d7. Would like to do lozenge pattern. Any tips on how to get the pattern accurate? Stencils etc? Thank you
A friend of mine traced the 5 coulor Lozenge pattern from a downloaded file and converted to a format for laser cutting. Sized it to 1/4 scale and laser cut sheets of large format paper into the individual segments for each coulour. I then air brushed each pattern carefully overlapping the other lozenge pattern. Thats a rough idea of how. The paper used was paper that was used as seperating sheets between new litho plate sheets from a printer. It was about 100 gsm and was a dry feeling paper, My friend experimented with his aser cuttrer th get it not to burn and it worked out perfectly.
Wow, this Convair is exactly the same, it is the first one I have seen with the original cabin!! The others I've seen don't look alike!!, Congratulations!!!
Beautiful work Tim. Did you modify the incidence of the wing? I read that by default, the incidence is like +5 degrees or something like that. Too much!
I cannot remember exactly what l did to be honest but l no l did modify the wing struts slightly. Also found over time that l had to lock the front wing strut next to firewall in to stop the wing from lifting under load which does change the incedence. Even with the preloaded built in the timber blocks over time reduce the preloaded and allows the wires to move in an outward direction from the fuselage. Hope this advice helps.
I have a OS GT22 in it. Does want to climb when at full power but can trim it ok. The rcgf26 maybe a bit more power than needed but maybe push you motor down using washers behind standoffs changing thrust line and see if it's any better.
