DaveB1

Here's my shed project after a month of hard graft. I'd knocked up a temp shed 10 years ago to build a boat in, but it leaked horrendously and had to go. 2 weeks and literally 15+ full estate load trips to the tip later, the old shed emptied, pulled down, chopped up and carted off. Overhanging trees and undergrowth cut back adn removed - The whole area had been paved (likely 30 years ago) which is great but tree roots etc made it very uneven so I laid and levelled over 30 slab pads (backbreaking) Maybe a 7m x 3m wasn't such a good idea Floor laid over a membrane and a very skilled assembler (Martyn) commenced the build 2 days later it was up 21mm Loglap wall - Great job by Express Timber (Grantham) Painted Yesterday and Gutters up today

I sail a boat called a H2 (like a single handed Merlin Rocket - modern all carbon singlehander) I also crew a Scorpion (and have done with the same helm for 40 + years) - can you remember what sail no your Scorpion was Geoff ?

The main reason my rc builds take forever and my flying is very average is my main sport is dinghy sailing. I'm captivated by this Americas cup and will be heading out to Barcelona in a couple of days to watch. Just hope Ineos team UK can get some wins under their belt or we won't have much to see. Still not much btw these teams but beating NZ will be a tough ask

Superb photos Paul - love that 2nd one of the formation 😃

Superb day today at Buckminster. The site was immaculate (well done to the team of volunteers) and the flying conditions absolutely superb with cloudless blue skies and light winds in the morning (albeit a tad cool). The runway was like a bowling green and Ron did a great job of flightline marshalling. Loads of amazing models there, but the highlight was putting faces to names and meeting so many fellow forumites - especially the Warbirds Replica crowd ! Well done all - hope you have another great day tomorrow

I'll be there Sat with a WR 190, a part built WR Tempest / Sea Fury and a Fillons Champion built from a Belair short kit - Looking fwd to meeting you all

Sorry Richard and Paul - I like a challenge and struggle to just build a kit as is - so here goes with my attempt at turning the WR Tempest kit into a Sea Fury. Studying the comparative fuselage shapes the key difference to achieve the rotary engine nose is a wider fuselage to enable a blend into the appropriate cowl diameter, a longer nose and then a raised top deck / canopy. After a few sketches and lots of head scratching, I decided to widen the fuselage crutch mating into wider formers F1, 2, 3, and then to increase the height and 'ovalise' the top deck formers. I initially planned a completely built up balsa cowl from (a new) F1 forward - but that didn't work (more on that later ) so then after lots more head scratching - built a frame forward of F1, added a new ring former and sourced an FW190 cowl from Richard which happened to be exactly the right diameter (phew). Have to say that even these simple mods were challenging (thinking / realising in 3 dimensions) and reinforced how skilled our kit designers are . Unfortunately my phone crashed catastrophically so I've lost a lot of the early build photos, but these give an idea of the build In this underside view you can just see the tapered balsa width extensions on the longitudinal fuselage crutch I built up the makings of a balsa cowl .......was dead chuffed as the shape appeared, but clearly pressed a bit too hard with the sanding block and the whole think exploded !! So then built a frame and additional ring former ahead of the new F1 and sheeted this (1mm ply on underside around a solid shaped balsa block to improve landing support (no retracts) and balsa sheeting higher up. New formers above crutch to reshape nose deck for hatch. Hatch and crutch width increase shown again Increased height top deck shown - Had to add additional thicker sheet(s) to rear deck to achieve a matching height - otherwise fuz rear is same as Tempest Starting to look Sea Fury ish. Wings kept the same as the Tempest - tailplane will be the same but the fin will be reshaped adding more height. More to come as it progresses

Same here 😃

Some impressive CAD modelling there Paul - nice one. Love those 3 blade spinners

I aim to be there at least one of the days to make it a quintet

That's a good idea Ron 👍

I had a bit of a prang with my WR FW190, but the advantage of these built up aircraft is they can easily be repaired / rebuilt. So I thought I'd just post the repair process to illustrate This is how it all started - I flew a wide landing circuit and when about 100m downwind it spiralled in. I still had plenty of height and power on as I was flying back into quite a strong wind, so I'm pretty sure this wasn't a stall and although I had time to recover, I had no control response so it seemed to be signal loss. The plane dove in at pretty high speed so I expected complete carnage, but found it had gone right through the perimeter hedge rather than hit the ground direct, and had relatively minor damage. The wing had 6x big chunks out of the LE and was about 6ft up in the hedge having broken the single nylon mounting bolt (this is a first for me, with no related wing tearing off damage) The canopy was punctured and ripped off, as was one tailplane half I sawed out the wing damage and gorilla glued some grey foam wedge inserts Bit of shaping Then brown paper patches I glued some dowels in to stiffen the tailplane up I'd airbrushed the original paint scheme but couldn't be bothered with the cleaning faff, so just brushed / cotton wool dabbed some paint on. The advantage of these weathered finishes is it can then be rubbed back / dirtied to achieve a reasonable match Job done - but I'm still wary about why it happened. After a bit of investigation I found some very poor solder joints on the ESC connector, that can both be twisted loose. Guess this could have led to an interrupted power supply !

Wow - looks superb, well done

Well, I've never been before, but have had a fabulous day at Weston park today. Some of the worlds best display pilots flying some incredible aircraft over English country parkland. Just amazing. Felt a very small crowd so plenty of space right at the flightline. Good selection of trade stands to save postage on and of course typical show catering prices. Great day.

Fabulous aircraft there guys, well done to all.