MikeQ

Thinking this will the camo scheme

Hi Lol, how come you can put a good bit of effort in and apparently make very little visible progress 😂. Anyway, servos all mounted and AMT working. Going with pull pull on rudder. Fuselage all closed up and wing belly pan finished and model sanded down. Just the tail pipe, gun ports and tail, wing fairings to sort. Will probably glass fuselage and fun/rudder separately before assembling and finishing up fairings all round. mike

Unaccustomed as I am to scale modelling. I might have went a bit too far 😂 Tamiya sanded smooth fine with micromesh. Some decals applied with microsol/microset and some not. Predictably, the ones without not very durable but the ones with applied much better and edges of transfers seem to hace disappeared. Must have tried 20 different pens for panel lines. Some better than others. Its all going to gt a coat of satin 2K so shouldn’t be a problem. easy to overdo it on dodgy weathering effects 😀 Next up, pastels and oils for weathering effects. Gives you more confidence to try things on a pop bottle than a real model.

Finally getting around to ‘beginning to finish’ this one. Test spraying a primed pop bottle full of water. Tamiya TS and AS spray can paint, decanted for use in airbrush. Just wanted to see what colours looked like so not too neat or even. think I’ll go with the light coloured underside. will also be useful as a test shot for weathering, panel lines and all that. not my best skill set, along with metal work 😖 PS Drew up and 3D printed some nozzles for decanting. Bluetack and straws was too messy. Will attach stl to post later

Hello anyone used aluminium arrow shafts for making pushrods? If so, can you recommend a source in the UK. Googling it shows plenty of suppliers on line but if any one has real world recommendations all the better. Also, if anyone knows a source of steel 3mm left hand threaded rod (then its possible to make a turnbuckle type pushrod like the Control Line stunt guys use). cheers mike

Hi the wife (honest) picked up my DX8 Tx by the Antenna and snapped it off. Is it just a case of buy a replacement or are there any gotchas as far as opening the TX up etc. https://sussex-model-centre.co.uk/products/spektrum-dx7s-and-dx8-antenna-spmr75012 Cheers Mike

Hi as about to ask the same. I have 12 SWG piano wire (2.64 mm measured with calipers) and I need brass tube thats a sliding fit. The nearest K&S is just too small or just too big. Mike

Hi Bit more work on Sabre. Just need to sort bending of the tail wires and complete and refine the fairing shapes etc. Shouldn’t be long before move on to glassing fuselage. mike PS Also need to sort tail pioe 😂

Hi haven’t finished the cabanes and wing struts etc yet. Not my favourite … metal work 😆. Currently overthinking the wing strut attachments. Not too keen on the usual FreeFlight scale way of doing it but can’t think of a better way. Wing will have ailerons, just need to ‘cut them out’. Will require some extra sub spars etc. servos mounted in the wings. Will use a lemon caseless Rx, 2S 150-200mAh, BlueBird BMS101HV servos. cheers mike

Hi its last year since I bought any Radio gear. Have I missed the bus or are Lemon Rx not available anymore. Either that or I’ve forgotten how to use Google. mike

Hi yeah, its like a mini jig. For smaller models. 3D printed them. 4mm studding with lock nuts and wing nuts. Good for small models. I’ll probably brace the bearers a little once i’ve managed to get all the gubbins up front and wherever it goes to balance. With a replica Mills up front its not going to be doing any Loops. mike

Hi Lol, doesn’t look like much progress but on all morning with hinges. Elevators and rudder hinged with Robart 306 1/2a hinge point hinges. Some things just can’t be rushed 😂 295g (10.4 oz) at this point but balances where it should at this point. Reckon I can save 15g on wheels. Heavy ones on there right now. mike

Hi the tailplane uses laminated 4Ib density 1/32 outline. The core is 5Ib 1/32 QTR grain. Its pretty light but strong construction. Its what the scale FF bods like Bill Dennis typically seem to use. I’ve used pretty much 4-6Ib wood apart from 1/8 spars. Even with all the ‘reworks’ it will still be stand off scale. Not quite as ‘far off’ as the Mercury original though 😂 Hopefully won’t need too much nose weight 😃 I’ll cover with Jap Esaki lightweight tissue over 10u mylar. mike PS I’ve seen a ‘proper Mercury Tiger Moth’ flying free flight and was a really good performer.

Bit more

Hello picking up in this project and what with Hippocket forum going a bit oear shaped thought i’d post here. Started out as an RC conversion of a Mercury Tiger Moth but I redrew the outlines and laser cut new ribs with different spar layout etc. Power will be Irvine Mills 75 with RC carb, more of a two speed affair 🤣 Micro servers and Lemon Rx. Should be a few oz heavier than FF target weight but will still be OK hooefully. If only those legendarily vast fields of KielKraft long grass still existed, I’d have built it FreeFlight. Will post some figures later