Eric Robson

That's a lot of trouble to get a foamie out of a tree

6mm for me at that size. I've never covered an open structure with oracover using depron ribs so I would be inclined to cap them top and bottom.

UHU for me, best used as a contact adhesive but make sure the pieces are in the right place when bringing together. It will work gluing and sticking straight away but takes a while to set

Richard does not do mug shots as he is wanted by the Chinese model mafia for turning out quality kits cheaper and better than theirs.

Lovely day in NW Durham flying my depron Spitfire courtesy of eflightray then my Acrowot. A good turn out of members

Yes Peter all the mud was at the Somme 😆

I've had 3 Lancasters first one scratch built 55" span with 2 OS 20s second one a priory models 72 " with 4 400 brushed motors and this one built by eflightray 104"span. Every one yawed on ailerons. The Priory one had no rudders and I thought I was going to loose it as it wouldn't turn at half throttle, I opened it up to full and managed to turn it. The current one will fly well on rudder and elevator, Ray had the motors linked to the rudders, I prefer the outers on one battery and the inners on a second battery. I haven't linked the ailerons to the rudders as I prefer to keep them separate. Looking forward to seeing your Lanc flying, good luck with the eyes, I had my left eye cataract done 24 years ago, had great vision since but I think age is catching up now. Regarding material costs the Lancaster is built from depron covered with paper ironed on with thinned PVA weight 11lb

You've got more chance of getting a Hawker Typhoon kit out of Richard than his bike and that is no chance.

Don't forget to leave a gap for the tailplane Jon.

The long piece is the fin post it goes from the top of the fin to to the bottom of the fuselage, the rudder hinges on it shown as a dotted line on the plan. Part no. T5

And a small tube of balsa cement 3 pence, Dad's used razor blade free

Both Izal and Andrex go brown with use

The firms that sold the rolls of masking paper in my locality don't stock it anymore, Toolstation etc sell rolls of thin plastic for automotive use , strange when shops are stopping plastic bags in favour of paper. Best paper I had last year was Christmas wrapping paper brown with gold deer on from Tesco

Looking good Richard, This will be a Christmas gift to myself. When gluing the ply skin to the cowl is that 11am or 11pm as I do my shopping am and pm is a bit late for some.

Amazing what you can do with a low kv motor And gearbox 😀

First flight for me after aquiring this from eflightray. A top half repaint and a little nose weight added was the only thing I had to do. Ray has had to retire from flying due to ill health. I hope I can keep this great build of his going for many more years.

Sounds like the situation is grave

Give it to your wife, no nagging for a week.

I find instructions useful Ron, they tell you where the parts go that you have left after building the kit

Just what I don't need another winter project, but looking forward to it 😀

Hi Mike, The motors are Racestar 3536 950kv bought from Banggood at the time they were on offer £16 for2 the esc's are 40amp also from Banggood. Powered by a 3s 3000 20c battery I get 6 minutes flight times, the props are Apc electric 8x6. I have used this setup on a Lockheed Lightning and a Me110 all foam board and depron. I also have a 72" span Mosquito with 2 cheap E max motors .fitted with spinners since the photo was taken

That has twice happened to me, the thing is when looking at something on the Internet for weeks after you get bombarded with ads from companies selling similar items. May be someone in the delivery companies is passing on information.

Last week among other things I ordered 2 4.8 batteries from a Model store in this country, only one arrived with one to follow on the invoice. Yesterday I received a message that I had missed the delivery of a parcel and to go to their website, I didn't recognise the site but clicked on to find it was Royal mail and there would be a re-delivery charge of £1 _48. Alarm bells rang as they don't normally charge for redelivery, on trying the search button nothing happened so to me it was a scam. I phoned the company today and they confirmed the item had not been shipped. The website is my depot- hold-com.uk. Beware

He's N Gauged on a large scale project, building and learning to fly.