[Modelworld April 2016]

Has anyone got either for sale or able to either scan or photo an article in the April 2016 Traplet Model World magazine?

 

[SFM (super flying models) SE5A]

Time to move onto the top wing center.

[SFM (super flying models) SE5A]

Added rear formers.

 

[SFM (super flying models) SE5A]

8 hours ago, Paul De Tourtoulon said:

I see you glue onto the burnt laser cut, what glue do you use and does it hold ,.

lightly sanded then using Aliphatic, nice and slow

[SFM (super flying models) SE5A]

Center crutch assembled to one side, so far apart from the manual, it fits very very well. (fyi red bag is 1kg diving weight (leadshot equivalent)).

 

[SFM (super flying models) SE5A]

As stated manual is terrible and pictures are so unclear, to work out where the longerons went I dry fitted one of the formers to get an idea of where, as picture is wrong and very unclear.

[SFM (super flying models) SE5A]

And top cover (wetted) and formed over assembly 

 

[SFM (super flying models) SE5A]

And we're off and running, reminds me of skyshark kits and how they snapped together, which is just as well the manual is pretty weak and just consists of pictures.

 

[SFM (super flying models) SE5A]

Thanks, may have to get some of Rapids film, much better price than what I have found.

[SFM (super flying models) SE5A]

Despite the shortage, I searched the Web and found a few stockists in the UK of the sfm se5a kit. £99 was the lowest price and was dualy ordered and received with free p&p bargin.

 

Just starting to get everything together, and since when did covering become so expensive? £30 for 2mtrs? Wow.

 

 

[Cambrian Elan 100" Glider]

Moving swiftly on

 

[Cambrian Elan 100" Glider]

Hi Jeffrey, the motor was elcheapo from Amazon

Nope left the nose as is, just added the extra former and drilled the front to suit.

[Cambrian Elan 100" Glider]

Motor now in its new home

 

[Cambrian Elan 100" Glider]

Made a former (firewall) to hold my cheapo motor (will add some offset). 

[Cambrian Elan 100" Glider]

Joining the two fuselage sides (center only).

 

[Cambrian Elan 100" Glider]

Added wing retaining hooks for bands.

 

added joined fuz half's and doubles 

 

[Cambrian Elan 100" Glider]

Thanks, will do.

 

Tail surfaces now completed

 

[Cambrian Elan 100" Glider]

Yes very nice wood, someone has taken time selecting it and the plans are nice and clear (shame they only show one side of the wings, but more on that later)

[Cambrian Elan 100" Glider]

Two inner panels now complete. Testing two wire joiners are aligned and true.

 

started first middle wing panel

[Cambrian Elan 100" Glider]

After returning to the flying fold, I wanted a build that my Grandson could watch take shape and hopefully want to get his hands on the flying sticks, so I chose the Cambrian Elan 100" traditional build glider (but will add a small motor as I'm miles away from a hill).

 

This is the latest version they are selling, so not old stock from a shop, and having at some point thrown away my old building board, I've rushed out and got a new bit of plaster board, so we can make a start.

 

Can't escape Covid these days and even the kit makers have been hit with the normal stock outages, so first job is to open the wing ribs for the slightly larger brass wing tubes.

 

 

I knocked up some wing rib gauges on my 3d printer to keep the ribs vertical

 

 

Added all ribs and checked and double checked everything was in the correct place and added the top spar.

 

 

Finally added some fishing weights to hold down the front sheeting

 

 

And we are off and running with the first of the six wing panels almost complete

[Rumors of my demise were exaggerated]

1 hour ago, john stones 1 - Moderator said:

Welcome back Graham, you posting the glider build ?

Yes 100% 

Next on the board after that will be a plan built bird of time

[Rumors of my demise were exaggerated]

Cheers

[Rumors of my demise were exaggerated]

Thank you

[Rumors of my demise were exaggerated]

I'm not dead honest.

A lot of water has gone under the bridge since I was a prolific poster on all model flying sites (inc RCMF) sadly when my father died 10 years ago the passion for building and flying seemed to get lost in the darkness. Before that time I wrote and reviewed several kits and aircraft (and other items such as my article introducing Poly-C to the anti epoxy generation) for Model World, before it also fell off its perch. Some of the other things I remember from that time was organizing the RCMF fly-in at Old Warden (probably the largest fly-in attended, with the like of Ally M attending and flying multiple engine turbine models and rotary engines (despite the dog show that OW slipped in under the radar). I have not given up modelling and in fact have been building a large fleet of model boats and the odd car, most of the reason for the change was a heart attack a few years ago that forced me to take 11 tablets a day along with the side effects they bring. Amongst them was the worse of shakes almost not being able to hold a cup of tea. However after seeing a quack and being referred I am now on Beta Blockers and the shakes are now controlled.

 

Time I feel to get back to my love, and so I am going to build (yes stick wood together, not foam) some large gliders (electric assisted), and who knows what next ?

 

first on the board is a Cambria Elan 100" glider.

[Blackhorse Stuka]

Posted by Aero120 on 21/10/2010 15:46:08:
Graham, any more news? I've got my hands on one of these. Not started building it yet but have trial fitted all the main bits together. Going to power it with a 20cc Zenoah. It's got to have a working bomb release too.

 Having just read a review in another magazine, I wonder if we both have the same model ?

 

Whilst fitting and removing the supplied keeps, one cracked and fell apart in my fingers! I'd already had another fall apart, as well as one self strip its thread, so I was luckilly removing them to install some nice Kavan ones.

And what did the reviewer say ?

 

"Examination of the supplied hardware revealed nothing untoward, in fact the standard of the fittings was very good"

Well I'm sorry they feel that way, about using (and yes they DID) these crappy brittle parts in a 12LB 20cc powered model !!!!

And what did they say about the problems I saw with the undercarridge ?

"Fitting the oleo sprung undercarridge gave a few niggling problems"

Yeah Right

 

My latest "NIGGLE" the damn fin installation, look at the picture, a great gap, and worse still nothing lines up (look at the panel lines and paint)

 

Now sureley the review must have mentioned this ?

 

"the assembly of the tail end is straightforward, and the alignement of the tailplane on the fuselage is both postive and accurate"

 

Hmm if thats what passes for their "Positive and Accurate", god help me.