Martin Gay

This A320 was built from the foam packaging that came with a new shower cubicle.

The red cylinder is 65mm diameter, and the total length, including the dispensing handle is 295mm.

I purchased one of these: FireChief 500ml Lith-Ex Fire Extinguisher | Fire Protection Shop 100-1587 £32.39 seemed a cheap price for peace of mind.

I have known modelers that laminated fiberglass onto a sheet of glass, or mirror, under pressure and used the cured sheet as a wing skin. Kind of like a home made "pro-skin". Lovely surface finish from the mirror!

Mike, That model was fiber-glassed and then sprayed with Vallejo Model Air paint. Various panels were masked off and either a drop of white to lighten the base colour, or black to darken it, was added to the airbrush cup. It only needs a subtle colour change to make the panel stand out. Martin.

Mike, I have spoken with Cliff Evans and unfortunately, he is currently unable to post on this forum. However, he has found, and corrected, the errors in his laser cut files. If you have any more issues please contact him via his website. Martin.

Mike, the correct former shape should be on the plan. If not send me a PM. Martin.

Mike, The slots in F10 should be identical. They help to align the tailplane bellcrank and fin. Martin.

All, I also found the youtube videos on Val's Puzzle Planes to be very useful. There is no talking on these videos so you have to have some idea of what is going on, but I used his single seat SU-25 tutorials to draw up a twin seat version for myself. I can also recommend the Fusion 360 training from Armada.co.uk. They are not exactly cheap but they taught me a lot after I had been struggling to learn Fusion 360 on my own.

Geoff, Have a look at this youtube video from Terrance at RC CAD 2 VR The rest of his videos are very good learning tools as well! Martin.

Congratulations!

I had a Sea Fury in the Iraqi colour scheme. It looked good in the air and was relatively easy to see over the Orme.

I like that colour scheme!

This might help if you have not already seen it: Microsoft Word - How to wire up a twin Brushless aircraft rev 2.doc (4-max.co.uk)

Tony, My immediate thought is that the speed controllers need data/signal and negative wire from the rx to function, not just the data/signal. A circuit diagram of how you have it wired up would be useful. Even a photo of a hand drawn one would work. Martin.

Every time I use Fusion, I learn something new.

Roger, Good Idea. As always there is more than one way to do this sort of thing in Fusion. Martin.

You could always paste the f3d file to the forum and one of the experts can have a play and let you know how they did it!

Allan, It is one of the functions of the combine command. Martin.

Alan, I think you should be able to do a cut. This will make the "extra bits" into a new body which you can hide or delete. Martin.

All I can say is Screwdrivers! I prefer to walk.

Do you know someone with a vinyl cutter? They could cut them to the correct size and style.

I think we should all quit foaling around.

Are you sure? Place your bets please!

Looking good!