Danny Fenton

Hi Colin, I drew an extra nose rib and had Slec cut some for me. I think it was an after thought. Cheers Danny

Hi Colin, i cant remember whether i had some additional riblets cut, sounds familiar. However adding rib tape would simulate this almost as well. Looking good, yours will fly before mine at this rate! Cheers Danny

Yeah, i don't think the tapes are biased, but the wing fabric is sewn into bags with diagonal joins. Equalizes the stress i belive.

From the example at Duxford You can see that the tapes edges are deliberately frayed. Quite difficult to replicate, silk tapes fray nicely but a serious amount of work to do. Looking good Colin Cheers Danny

Yes, a single tape from trailing edge to trailing edge. Remember the fabric panels were diagonally cut so there is a joining seam too. I used heavyweight tissue, no pinked edges here.... Cheers Danny

Sorry Ron, no I was having the weekend off, I had promised a couple of peeps I would try and get some shots of their models, but I didn't want to spend the whole weekend behind the lens, I only had one day. Sorry.....

I said something similar, hopefully soon. Still looks great though. I don't know if Pascal painted the spinner or printed in the day glo.

I have been contacted by a modeller in Holland, Pascal. He was asking for the STL file to print one of Chris Bott's spinners. Pleased to say Pascal test flew his Chippy and it flew perfectly. Pascal has followed my thread on my silver/blue Chippy and repainted his Chippy and applied all the hidden rudder horns and other little upgrades, looks great, well done pascal. This was from Pascal: I have to give you a Maiden report. Its a kitty kat to fly in deed. I have flown 9 min on a 6s 5000mah. I have 4 of them so i made 3 more flights after the Maiden. Pushing the enveloppe a bit further . Immelmans ,lomcevacs,split S,rolls and loops flawlessly. Landing speed @ walking pace thanks to the flaps. This one is a keeper. Regards from Holland. Pascal

Looks brilliant well done!

Hi guys, it is 24" x 9" and 7" tall. So yes a bit big. SLEC have agreed to form the canopy and a 2nd form of styrene over the PETG to make the frame. But i have a plan to have a go myself first. Because of the shape it might plunge mould, but never tried at this scale? Otherwise i will make a frame and vac table. My home made A4 set up certainly wont cope! This isnt my first Paul, but it is the largest. Hence seeking advice, alas i got lots of contradicting information, mainly statiing a plug formed the way I have wont work. And it will collapse. My head thinks it will work for a couple at least. We will see. Its a fair cost to make something this big in man hours, and materials. And I wanted to mitigate risk before just charging forward in my usual way. Dirk clearly is much more experienced at this scale than me and I appreciate his time. Sorry Dirk back to your fabulous build 😀

Thanks Dirk, I have been getting conflicting advice and it was not helping me. I can improve the surface finish on my plug with primer and paint fairly easily. I presume it doesn't have to be an epoxy primer/paint?? Cheers Danny

Thanks Dirk, i made my plug from blue foam covered in a couple of layers of glass cloth, but i cannot get a gloss finish. Do you prime and paint? I am concerned primer and paint wont survive the heat of vacforming? Thanks for your thoughts Danny

I am currently struggling making a canopy mould, have you pics of your process to make that plug, i can see a glass version in the bakground. Cheers Danny

Looks and sounds fantastic well done Dirk, mammoth effort!

Looks great Kevin, well done