Robin Stevens

I mocked up the wing with the fus yesterday and started mounting the skids I was worried that the wingspan was a little bit excessive but it looks about right when it's all together, not far now until I'll be rigging it up. I'm happy to see some interest in this build, the Soarcerer is such an elegantly simple design that I'm surprised I don't see more of them. It's also nice to hear that someone else has been successful with this before Charles, I may have to ask about CoG when I get that far. I increased the strength of the horizontal stabiliser by making it from 1/4" stock rather than the 3/16" called for on the plan, I'm hopeful this will make it more robust. I must admit that 3/16" looked a little on the thin side when I was first reading the plan. As it stands I'm unsure of whether to plank in the leading edge of the wing or to just have a pair of corner gussets on every rib. The weight currently stands at 240g (around 8.5oz) with no electonics, With electronics and nylon covering I'm expecting to come close to the plan weight of 16.5oz.

The key appeal of the Cub to me is the shear number a variety of the schemes and layouts available to it. I have always had a bit of a soft spot for the medivac cubs and the raffled off "Flitfires" in silver with RAF roundels and markings. A quick search shows that by the looks of it some cubs were indeed used by the military in the iconic yellow scheme. **LINK** or at least some Super Cubs. Hope this helps.

The fus was all assembled as one big step, going slightly against the plan instructions but I feel more confident in a straight fus when I can tweek things as the glue sets Then the tail feathers assembled The first wing that I'm making is the thermal wing, rather than following the plan construction I'm going for a box spar of 1/4 spruce longitudinals and 1/16 balsa webs. The wing will be sheeted in fabric for the traditional look. I added an extra 2 ribs per side to increase the span for thermalling. The section was kept as Clarke Y true to the plan. I'm incorporating ailerons into this wing so that I can have spoiler mixing. With this in mind I reduced the dihedral to 1" under each tip (plan calls for 2-3/4", giving a final span of 67" or 1.7m. Forgive the very tidy build area :P I like to get everything assembled then have a massive tidy up of everywhere before covering.

For a while now I've wanted to build a Soarcerer. It's a design that is somewhat of a classic on the slope and was the first model plane that my father built way back when he was learning the hobby in the 1970's. My intention was to build a single fuselage and a pair of wings, one for thermal soaring on the flat and one for slope soaring. With this in mind I am altering the layout of fus to accept an aerotow or bungee launch. For the most part I am following the plan, however where I think things can be done better I'm doing my own thing. This is my first foray into gliding so I'm choosing to go with something that although not as sleek or high performance as the frp ships should be fun and characterful. I have cheated a little bit and waited until I'm quite a way through the build before making this thread. I'll make sure I post to bring it up to date (I've taken build photos throughout.

Thanks very much for the warm welcomes everyone My building board is indeed bursting at the seems, I'm hoping to get some of it rounded out during this year so I can get a truly large project on the go. I'll be sure to check out the build threads (and hopefully add to them. thanks for the pointer) In fact, one of the models waiting in the wings to be finished is a Toot Sweet Peter. It's a model that my father started and never got around to finishing, I'm hoping to finish it off so I have a model to practice for my B test with. Electric does have it's advantages but I have a SC.40 two stroke lined up for it, not sure if that'll be overcooking it though.

Hi, I'm Robin. I fly at Scarborough Model Flying Club in Yorkshire. I have a mix of models in various states of build and repair, but at the moment the only thing that I have airworthy is a Cartoon Cutlass (RCME April 2015) and a Funbat. I didn't mean to end up flying mostly electric models but free time and wanting to scratch build most of the time has pushed me that way. I prefer to scratch build. I have had a couple of ARTF kits in the past but I have been building when I can for the past couple of my planes. I currently have on the building board a Sorcerer glider (the classic from 1969 not the twin boom one) that I'm hoping to turn into a general glider for both the flat and the slope.