Lorenz Mueller
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On 08/04/2021 at 19:31, Tim Flyer said:
Thank you Jon that sounds perfect . The decals I bought were the standard DB ones “ZDB”
https://www.dbsportandscale.com/spitfire-mk-1a-kit-6502-p.asp
Hi Alan I do remember that scheme as I have it on an Airfix mk 1 assembled for my son some time ago. Having one wing black and the other white obviously is great for scale but I don’t think it would good for orientation in the sky as it might confuse and to be honest I’m happy just having if looking like the one on the box.
I did my small RBC Spitfire with black/white undersides and it actually is great for orientation.
It would depend on the time period you'd like to model - 1939 with black/white undersides, dark earth/dark green topside camouflage, 1940-42 duck egg blue undersides, and from 1942 on the ocean grey/dark green camouflage and medium sea grey undersides, arguably hardest to see. Obviously by that time there weren't too many Mk.I Spits left...
Interiors in all Spitfires were grey-green.
Great build!
Lorenz
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Maybe not that popular in the UK, but when I was a teenager (eighties of the last century) Graupner was the gold standard over here. Good wood selection, very well die cut not crushed and printed part numbers, good plans, detailed build instructions including exploded view, even some hardware. Not all the required things, mind you, they still sold you half the accessory catalog. And somewhat overbuilt, never used one piece where three intricately shaped ones would do. But in the end, correctly built they all flew very well.
Lorenz
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Posted by kc on 07/11/2020 16:41:15:
Also says "RCME publishes 13 great issues a year" . Is that correct? Is there a Special included if I buy a years print subscription?
The advert in this forum says the print +digital is 13 issues a year - is there an extra issue for print + digital subscribers that print only subscribers don't get?
Edited By kc on 07/11/2020 16:44:18
Not this year - covid savings regrettably gives us only 12 "normal" issues, A real pity, as the larger plan in the special issue was what brought me to RCM&E in the first place... Let's hope there will be a special next year again!
Lorenz
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Being Swiss (and ex Swissair) mine would have to be the Swissair one. Currently thought to have had a dark blue fuselage and a red roundel with a white CH on the tail, so quite the reverse of your drawing...
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I'll be watching interestedly, as I have the plan also. For me it's going to be electric. Just ran your numbers through the calculator - 42 can motor, 700kV, 11x7 three-blader (being scale on the Condor) on 4s would do the trick nicely. Enjoy the build, Lorenz
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She has finally taken to the skies today! She is a very well mannered lady, thanks also to Skywriter designer Lindsay Todd. I am looking forward to see all her tricks!
Of course there would be plenty of scope to improve her looks. We'll see, for now I plan to fly her.
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as covering progresses and controls are hooked up, I couldn't resist putting it together. Tail wheel, wing struts, windscreen and pilot to go...
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some progress, finally:
having some fun with the panel:
standing on its wheels:
as may be guessed from the undercarriage, I will be dressing it up as a Spanish Fury.
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As I live in Switzerland I also had the break in the delivery of the printed magazine. But I decided to take what's offered, i.e. the subscription extension, and just order the two missing issues from mags.uk. Worked perfectly, my collection of plans is complete, and I'm happy I'm getting printed RCME's again.
Lorenz
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Is there a way to order the missed print issues as back issues? I'd like to fill the gap in the collection, but having no luck so far...
Lorenz
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There's another one being built here http://www.rc-network.de/forum/showthread.php/669543-Messerschmitt-BFW-M-23-C-Projekt
a bit bigger, and the text in german, but the pics speak for themselves. Yours looks like a fine project.
Lorenz
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My wife flies a Groovy 50 3A and is very happy with it. I have the Ultimate 40 and that one flies very well too, if a bit on the fast side. Both electric on 4s. Their Tempest is next. Beware, some of their warbirds are "stand very far off indeed scale", especially the Spitfires.
Lorenz
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RBC in the Netherlands makes a kit for a Tigercat - 52 inches, quite simple balsa build. No landing gear afaik.
https://www.rbckits.com/shop/airplane-kits/balsa-build-kits/rbc-warbird-kits/tigercat.html
Lorenz
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I'm in the same position, Patrick, with my mag sent overseas. If you have the subscription, the supplements are available in the Digital Archive
Pete
Doesn't work for me either - I have a print only subscription. Pity, I would have liked at least to see what's inside the supplement.
Lorenz
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I just got my March RCM&E but no workbench supplement. Come to think of it, I never got the Jet one either. Did I miss someone saying UK only or is there some other problem?
Lorenz
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You should enter the Harrier into the VTOL world championship - see www.dorniermuseum.de/rc-vtol-wm
Lorenz
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Much better is to look at the ESR and select an electrolytic cap with a low ESR value.
Rubycon for instance sells a series advertised as being low ESR. A respectable electronic retailer will carry them. Used them according advice by manufacturer Schulze Germany to lengthen battery wires for a pusher jet to about 1m with no ill effects.
Lorenz
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To revive a very old thread: Are there any indices for the recent RCM&E years? Or even (dare I hope?) a searchable one on the web? Trying to find an article I know I read and can't...
Lorenz
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Posted by Tom Sharp 2 on 09/03/2017 19:35:19:
I used to take the German Magazine Auf Wind, they did big models, with plans over two issues
I subscribed to that one for years. There never was a free plan with Aufwind. Plenty of articles about plans built gliders, even a competition once, but the plans you had to buy afterwards.
AFAIK the only german magazine featuring free plans is FMT. They regularly do spread bigger plans onto two issues. Single issues plans tend to be smallish as in RCM&E.
Lorenz
Edited By Lorenz Mueller on 10/03/2017 13:12:49
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Yep. Pity really, as I'm developing a liking for the slightly bigger models too. 40" and below and they just get too twitchy.
Lorenz
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The free plan every month was a main feature that made me choose RCM&E in the first place. Even if a particular plan does not appeal directly to me I still like poring over it and gleaning new ways of solving problems or doing things. I do find myself waiting eagerly every year for the "big one" in the autumn special, so if once in a while a bigger build were spread out to two magazines I wouldn't complain. If there were none at all I would.
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Posted by Stuart Z on 01/02/2017 18:53:15:
Interestingly the Acromaster was an American design and the Acrostar was a development of the Swiss KZ8. Both were competing at the same time, 1970.
not quite. The KZ VIII was a danish 1949 design having afaik nothing at all to do with the much later Acrostar designed by swiss pilot and aerobatic champion Arnold Wagner, german aerodynamicist Richard Eppler et al. and built in Germany by Hirth.
Btw the Acrostar had an interesting and mechanically complex flap/aileron system not unlike snap flaps that gave for that time unprecedented maneuverability.
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All of them. Without hints, but with using some elimination. And thanks for explaining why that horrible P-26 drawing was supposed to be an A5M...
Great fun.
Lorenz
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I think we are starting to mix two issues here. One is getting new people into kit building. That to me is a losing battle. The age mix at my club speaks for itself- at 52 I feel I'm one of the younger members. I guess we are going to be replaced by a bunch of quad copter controller programming nerds. How to address this issue other than at club level, I have no idea.
But the thread is calling out to kit builders. So probably most of us have started out with building a Spitfire and/or a Messerschmitt 109. I have both, so that niche is filled. But what comes afterwards? The choice of aeroplanes begging to be built, and the diversity of likes and dislikes is just enormous. For example there are so many P-51s out there it just does not tempt me in the least. On the other hand I probably would be the only buyer of, say, a Bristol Bulldog, de Havilland Hornet, Focke Wulf TA-154. All handsome to me, incidentally all available as plans, but just too obscure to warrant kitting. The question of size further splits up the demand for any likely type. Of Richard's models, I have inquired for a bomber Ju-88, and might consider a La-7. So maybe the only valid answer is plans, and laser cutting on demand. Whether that will ever be enough to live off, I doubt.
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I usually solder up a connector of my own using DB9 computer plugs. If I use a common ground or plus supply I can connect all the servos I need with one of these. A 6-pin Multiplex connector can also be used (common plus, common ground, up to four signal wires), the DB9s are nicer/easier to solder though, and they have lugs to screw one side to the wing.
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