Going All-Out With A Classic Balsa B-17-F – Part 10 I finished off the last session (Part 9) by promising you a “prodigious mess of balsa shavings” that would result from completing the job of shaping all four engine nacelles. Doing that turned out to be an exercises in using a sequence of traditional model […]
Going All-Out With A Classic Balsa B-17-F – Part 9 Part 8 of our “building the B-17” story ended with my giving you a sneak peek at the first of the aft nacelle fairing blocks stuck into place. In showing you that (as a hint of things to come) I got a little ahead of […]
Going All-Out With A Classic Balsa B-17-F – Part 8 I finished our last session of B-17 building by closing-up/sheeting-in the forward section of one of the one of the engine nacelles. I’ve been doing nacelles for quite a while now and I’m sure it has occurred to you (as it did to me when […]
Going All-Out With A Classic Balsa B-17-F – Part 7 I finished our last building session by closing up (adding the last of the 1/16”balsa sheet skin) the lower surface of both wing panels and doing some final reinforcement and preliminary sanding around the flap well access. With that done, the next step is to […]
Finishing Those Foam ARF RC Scale Airplanes – P-51 Flight Report Last time around, in my initial blog/article on modifying the Atomik RC/J-Power P-51 ARF for improved appearance, I explained that all the stuff I tried worked and I was able to report that “It does fly.” In this installment I’m here to let you […]
Going All-Out With A Classic Balsa B-17-F – Part 6 We finished our last session in the shop with my showing you the E-Flite 10-25 electric RLG (retractable landing gear) system that’s going into the B-17. As I suggested then, there are a lot of things that have to happen…and a lot of decisions to […]
Going All-Out With A Classic Balsa B-17-F – Part 5 Last time I finished cleaning up the leading edge of the bottom of the wing and explained why I chose to leave the rear portion of the underside open for now. I also mentioned my reasons for getting the entire leading edge “closed up” before […]
Going All-Out With A Classic Balsa B-17-F – Part 4 During our last B-17 session in the shop, I finished closing in the top surface of the wing using my favorite “wet balsa sheet” method. You may have noticed then that I made no provision for the cutouts in each leading edge that are going […]
Finishing Those Foam ARF RC Scale Airplanes … Scaling-Out the Atomik RC/Sonic Modell EPO ARF B-17 Recently I devoted several weeks of workshop time to determine just how far I could go with fiberglass-and-paint resurfacing and refinishing of a typical large foam/ARF electric powered RC scale warbird … in this case the 61” wingspan J-Power […]
Converting the 30in Rubber Powered Dumas Piper J-4 to Electric RC…Extra Details and Flight Report I’m going to begin this flight report by catching up on some of the last-minute details I don’t want to miss telling you about, as well as by sharing a story about this airplane that might at first seem to […]