[It's the grand pre-Xmas (better stuff than normal) giveaway!]

Please count me in too -

Don't forget Santa lives in Iceland

B. (from Iceland )

[Hi everyone]

Thanks Ted

I hope the sun is on your side of the globe now, it's not much of it here this month

and thanks Colin, nice to hear

B.

[My first build from a plan]

Hi Mark and welcome to the building board,

I’ve been building models for some time now and some of them several times. I use 12mm mdf board with a sheet of 4 mm cork glued to it and it works fine for me. Of course I have made a lot of mistakes during my model building but there is only one common factor to them all.

I didn’t THINK enough.

So my advice is “Take as much time as you can to think about the next steps before you actually do anything and when you have succeeded in taking those steps, don’t keep on building, STOP TO THINK.

Thinking is also quite a good hobby that is not appreciated enough.

Enjoy your building

Birgir

[Hi everyone]

Hi Mogs

Yeh, you'r right, there are almost no trees around here, but instead it is a little windy

There are always some pros and cons everywhere and you can certainly crash a model without hitting a tree

Did you notice our little airfield on google maps?

B.

[Ideas for new polls]

Hi there

How about how many of us use Mode 1 and how many are using Mode 2 on their Tx

Birgir

[Complete Beginner]

Hi Barry

I‘m also a freshmen, so to speak. When I came back to this hobby, last year, after a pause for a few decades I got me a simulator. That idea turned out to be a very good gesture and saved me a lot of disappointments. On top of that I also had a very good time at the computer managing the “imaginary” models.

I downloaded a free simulator, ClearView SE RC Flight Simulator from **LINK**

There is a one or two free models in the package but soon I bought a few more models and an airfield at a very reasonable price.

In the beginning I even used my keyboard as a control but after I got my Futaba 6J I bought a cable form dx.com and now I fly with the same transmitter as I fly my models.

Regards,
Birgir

[Hi everyone]

Thanks BEB, I'll keep that in mind

B

[Hi everyone]

Hi everyone

I recently came across this website and I find it very inspiring and have had a lot of fun reading various threads here

My name is Birgir and I live in a small village of 500 on the south coast of Iceland. But even though it is a very small village we have our own model field.

I‘m a rehabilitated model flyer, i.e. I build my first model in the seventies, a Keil Kraft Mini Super. I was 15 years and of course the first flight was not a grate success. Neither was the second or third for that matter. Sometimes in the eighties I rebuild my Mini Super and did a couple of flights. Not a grate success but the model survived more or less.

Last year I once again got my model down from the ceiling and started to work on it. I got me a free simulator and practised a little and last summer I managed to achieve some grasp of flying the model and had a very good time and flew a lot. Early this year I did my second build, a Sig Hog Bipe but before I dare to fly that thing I think I must practice flying a plane with ailerons. So now I have just finished a total rebuild of the Mini Super with added ailerons and steerable nose wheel. I kept the appearance as true to the picture on the box as possible even though I did a couple of changes such as the ailerons.

If you are interested in some of this, more pictures and some text can be found at my website **LINK** The text is in Icelandic but Google Translate can fix that

I hope that there are not too many spelling errors in my English

Happy flying,
Birgir

[Mini Super Build]

Hi everyone

I do not know if this tread is alive any more but I have had a real pleasure reading it. Just like Nev tells us early in this thread, my first model was a Mini Super. I build it with some help from my father. (He was building RC boats). It was back in ´72 and I was only 14. The model was a Keil Kraft kit with a trike, a .20 Graupner and a 72MHz Futaba. Needless to say the first flight was not a great success. The model hit a building, luckily nobody got hurt. My brother fixed the model and got his turn with even worse result. Sometime early in the eighties I rebuild the model and covered it with modern covering and put in an OS .15. I tried to fly it a couple of times with a little better result and managed to keep the model in one piece. And this summer, more than forty years later I decided to try again to manage the model. This time I got me a simulator. I learned to control the model with tiny rudder and an elevator only and have been flying many times this summer and have enjoyed it very much. After a few hard landings I had to rebuild the bottom and used the opportunity to change to a tail dragger. It works fine. To help manage it on the runway during take-off I made the tail wire about 20 cm and now I can drive it the whole runway. If anyone is interested in pictures you can have a look at **LINK** The text is in Icelandic but can be translated with Google Translate J

Now I want to do jet another rebuild of the model this winter. I aim at building it again with a trike, but now with steerable nose wheel and maybe ailerons. A part from that I intend to be as true to the picture of the box (which I still have) as possible. I see that Jim Carss has built two wings and I think that is a brilliant idea. I‘m not sure where to put the servos or how this should be done so I would appreciate it very much if Jim would be willing to post some photos of where the servos and control horns are placed.

Sorry for how long this post is an forgive me my spelling errors

Regards,

Birgir