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Eric Robson

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  1. Not good on 3 either, intermittent from last night
  2. Not much visible work done since last posting, I have looked up some colour schemes, the top one appeals to me, The recently restored Tempest 2 is attractive, but silver doesn't stand out against grey sky's.
  3. Having built the Warbirds Replicas Tempest V and enjoying the flying experience, I thought I would try to build a Tempest 2 from the Warbirds kit. I started building the fuselage last week, it was built up to the front wing former which has to be drilled for the wing dowl. I built the wing to the point where I could mount it in the fuselage then once in position I was able to continue with the fuselage. Richard supplied a FW190 cowl which worked out very well. I made two 3mm ply formers to suit the cowl, one replacing the original F2, and the other mounted 32mm in front of F1 which was replaced by a new former for the central mounted motor.
  4. I have used UHU, use it like a contact adhesive smear a thin layer on both surfaces,leave for 10 -15 minutes and bring together. It has to be spot on first time. If in doubt use it like normal glue,it takes longer to set but you can position it better. Do not use on foam, if the surface is foam or depron use UHU por.
  5. Hi Murat, My flight battery comes to where your ballast box is, if you had the battery further forward you would not need as much ballast. The grill looks good but I wouldn't be able to fit one on mine due to the forward battery. I tried an experiment with mine, I used a 3S5000 lipo with a 15x6 prop,it has enough power and after 6 minutes I have 55% left in the battery, on a 3s 4000 I have 40% left. It brought the total weight off mine up to 3kg, it flew very well and handled the extra weight OK. as you can see the battery is right forward and the ballast is strips of lead epoxied to the front of the battery tray, not pretty but functional
  6. 8 turned out today, Misty all around the field but it stayed clear enough to fly. I spent 4 hours there flying my Warbirds Replicas Tempest and Spitfire along with my Wot4 foam e. 3 were flying vintage types, strong smell of ether,thought I'd get higher than the plane. 🙂
  7. Sunny,but a cold blustery wind, I took my Warbirds Replicas Tempest up for a re maiden after a radio problem caused it to hit the ground at full throttle, a lot out of trim but after trimming it flew well. As an experiment I ran it on a 3S5000 lipo with a 15x6 prop it handled the wind OK, at low throttle it almost descended vertical the wind was so strong, as no one else turned up I headed for home.
  8. I photo copy then cut the item out and Prit stick it on the balsa, if it is too big for the printer I trace it.
  9. Not much difference to the white van man throwing it over the fence🙂
  10. Freewing Electronic Tail Gear Retract with 3.1mm Shaft. I just looked this up on Motion RC I thought I had the full piece but if you go to there website and search retracts it is on page 3. Only 2 in stock at the moment
  11. In my youth when the chemist would sell a bottle of ether to anyone, I mixed ether paraffin and Castrol R it worked OK . I didn't do it long term as I found out girls were more fun, and that was the end of modelling for a few years
  12. Definitely not for a Fairey!
  13. I would not angle the ribs, if the outer panels are built flat on the board then place the ribs upright. If you angle them you will have less contact area when sheeting the wing, only the ribs at the joint between the inner and outer panels need to be angled and possibly only the inner panel rib.
  14. I've built a few Brian Taylor models and always changed the braces to ply. Reading an article by Brian Taylorim the 70s, he said hard balsa was adequate for the dihedral braces and ply just added weight. Soon after on landing his Tempest at the nationals the wing snapped at the dihedral joint. It was caught on camera and published in one of the magazines with a comment on using balsa instead of ply. Brian made his models for competition and probably didn't fly them on a regular basis, if you intend to use it a lot as I do on rough club fields then beef them up a bit but keep the rear as light as possible.
  15. They are great for belly landings
  16. When installing the hinged undercarriage make sure there is plenty of clearance from the side cheeks. I had a landing on mine where the undercarriage splayed out, after investigating it appeared that when it hinged back it fouled the side cheek snapping the ply plate and the plastic mounting plate on the electric retract. I made a new ply plate and had a spare plastic part. I have reduced the ply mounting by 3mm per side. It won't reduce the strength by doing this
  17. It is frustrating Simon, I went through that in my early 60s as I only had one good eye the specialist put off the operation, saying it anything went wrong I would be almost blind as there was nothing the could do with the right eye. At 64 I couldn't see the road signs if the sun was behind them I couldn't see an aeroplane in the sky, so he done the op. on the left eye. It was better than winning the lottery, I swear he gave me a bionic eye. For the next 24 years I had great vision and after retirement enjoyed my model flying. 12 months ago I was diagnosed with AMD and told without treatment I would go blind. The treatment was having injections in both eyes every 4 weeks. Last September I had a cataract removed from my right eye and since then with the injections my sight in my right eye has improved to the point where I can now read the top 3 lines of the chart where before I could on read the first and last letter on the top line. With the left eye I can read 3 lines lower than I could before the treatment. Without the treatment I would have had to give up driving by now as I was one line above the requirement. I hope you can get seen to early Simon, keep at them as it is your quality of life that is suffering.
  18. Hi Finlay, If you are a beginner the direction I would point you in is to the nearest model flying club. Talk to the club instructor and find out what radios they use and what trainer they recommend. It is nice to imagine being in control of a large scale model. My dream was a Lancaster rolling along the runway and flying in a realistic way. It took about 5 years to my first Lancaster and that was only 60" span with two OS 20 two strokes and two dummy props. The down size of a large model is 1. Transporting it too the strip 2. The legislation to get it in the air 3. How many times in the year you will be able to fly it. 4. Storing it when not in use. I hope this doesn't put you off as it is a great hobby, I've been doing it most of my life and for as long as I am able I will continue.
  19. He's also good at phone videos, and has some stunning models. Time too show some of them on here Mark Starting with your Flair SE 5. Welcome Mark.
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