Alex Leigh Posted March 9, 2009 Share Posted March 9, 2009 Apart from 1) You'll rush building it and make a mess 2) You've no idea how to cover it 3) You'll crash it on the maiden and it'll be all splinters and tears before bedtime 4) You need to learn to fly your thing first 5) I thought you were buying a second IC plane 6) And a fast Wing (S-15 from Wowings. Look ace) 7) Because your wife might have you carted down the local loony bin to check for "obsession-an-itos" So APART from that (in a what did the Romans ever do for us style). Cheap(Ish) compared to glass/moulded ones, British design, classic looks, emperors new clothes What else would I need (apart from building and flying skills?) Tempted. Very tempted. And quite stupid sometimes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim Mackey Posted March 9, 2009 Share Posted March 9, 2009 Classic model ----- and like all the Chris Foss stuff flys nicely to. Get one. A guy I know has glassed his completely...sure helps when landing up the big rock - not an ideal place for crunchies.... well certainly not in strong wind. I and few others are off there tomorrow for a session with jarty things and stuff Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex Leigh Posted March 9, 2009 Author Share Posted March 9, 2009 I seem to have a long list of broken things to fix before I can fly. Wind looks rubbish here tomorrow and I'm working anyway. Weekend however looking like bit fat westerlies Right well if it's good enough for Timbo, it's good enough for me I shall sneak an order in I think. Found a blog of the build, thing I'm going to need to shape up my building table/techniques. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matthew Lloyd Posted March 9, 2009 Share Posted March 9, 2009 Hang on there Al! See if you get discount for buying two Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim Mackey Posted March 9, 2009 Share Posted March 9, 2009 I should clarify here that I dont own a 6, but have had many Chriss Foss power models, and still fly for fun a now electrified WOT However I know of several owners of the Phase 6 and am impressed whenever I see them on land or in the air. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matthew Lloyd Posted March 9, 2009 Share Posted March 9, 2009 Yes - I also had a close look at a fully glassed Phase 6 on the Mynd - and it was simply gorgeous. From then on I have been hankering... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex Leigh Posted March 10, 2009 Author Share Posted March 10, 2009 What's involved in "fully glassing" it then? Is is some arcane art requiring sacrificing of glass fibre effigies, and scary runic chants? Timbo, understood. I would like to buy British if I could and I'm certainly taken with an Aerowat as well, once I've passed my 'A', For which I'd better stop sloping off every weekend and go and get some instruction, and get it done. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy Green Posted March 10, 2009 Share Posted March 10, 2009 Take a look at Poly C, its cleaner than epoxy fo putting glass cloth on, but the technique is basically the same. One thing to bear in mind, because Poly C is water based you have to seal the wood first. Andy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim Mackey Posted March 10, 2009 Share Posted March 10, 2009 That'll be ACROWOT I think you mean Alex Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex Leigh Posted March 10, 2009 Author Share Posted March 10, 2009 What's a C between friends eh? That's about the third time I've done that. I may email Mr Foss and ask him to change the name of his model Thanks for that Andy. Looks easy if a little dull! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex Leigh Posted March 10, 2009 Author Share Posted March 10, 2009 Slight change of plan Ah well, it's on the ever increasing "list" of things I'd like to have. I do seem to have four new (well 2 were SH) since Xmas. It was like this at the start with MTB's and it took me five years to get over it. This does not bode well Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim Mackey Posted March 10, 2009 Share Posted March 10, 2009 Its an obsession Alex - and there is no known cure....even ANOTHER model just doesnt take the symptons away. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave S. Posted March 10, 2009 Share Posted March 10, 2009 Tim, there are plenty of cures for modellingitis, but they do suffer from two drawbacks - firstly they tend to cost more than modelling, and secondly, none of them actually work Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex Leigh Posted March 10, 2009 Author Share Posted March 10, 2009 Thanks Dave. That's encouraging I'm stopping at 5. And if/when I pass my 'A' I want soemthing else, it's a strict one in one out regime. This was my approach to Mountain biking and goes no way to explaining why I had 11 at one point. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave S. Posted March 10, 2009 Share Posted March 10, 2009 Don't worry, Alex, most of us have tried to apply sensible rules like that. They never work, either. It's easier to avoid accumulating too many of you fly only models you build, rather than ARFs (makes you fly better, too!) but in the end you stop breaking them and they build up anyway. I have only 4, but they are all over 5 years old. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil Claridge Posted March 10, 2009 Share Posted March 10, 2009 alex a word of advice dont go to model shows bring and buy tents dont go to model club auctions walk quickly past models at car boot sales i didnt and now have 46 odd models and kits all must have bargains best advice is keep to 4 or five in fly able condition then build another if your pet tree eats one Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil Claridge Posted March 10, 2009 Share Posted March 10, 2009 for example alex, acrowat with two servo's tank cowl and undercarriage £5 at car bootsale,os70 surpass brand new with 4 s148 servo;s £20 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex Leigh Posted March 10, 2009 Author Share Posted March 10, 2009 I know you think you're helping fellas but you're really not! The latest purchase was really quite cheap. Until I added Servos, RX, associated gubbins. I didn't even dare ask what hte final cost will be. It's staying inside for a bit tho until I'm a bit less cack handed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matthew Lloyd Posted March 10, 2009 Share Posted March 10, 2009 Catch 22 Al - that cack hand will remain unless you show it another model Those are serious bargains Phil - where did you say you saw such delights? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil Claridge Posted March 11, 2009 Share Posted March 11, 2009 i pick up lots of bargains at car boot sales mathew, mostly house clearance when the sellers dont realise what they have got.my brother got a 56 in span rockwell mustang complete with saito 80 jr rx all servo;s and retracts for £110 in norfolk we flew it next day.. i saw a helicopter complete outfit sold for£100 and watched the buyer fly it in the carpark five minutes later,any thing i think is suspect i leave alone but make a note of the sellers car no. one seller was packing up one day as i passed by and threw a broken fusilage in the bin i had it away smartly there were two £30 servo's still in it, the biggest plane i have seen for sale was a fifteen foot wingspan the name has slipped my mind the fusilage was 12in diameter and looked like a good scale model i could have had it for t £15 but left it next time isaw it was in an antique shop in chichester for sale at £250 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil Claridge Posted March 11, 2009 Share Posted March 11, 2009 the model was the horsa glider(brains woken up) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ken anderson. Posted March 11, 2009 Share Posted March 11, 2009 hello alex-save your dosh-send it to me i'll buy a new glider for my collection............... ken skint anderson/1st................. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doug Ireland Posted March 11, 2009 Share Posted March 11, 2009 Horsa Glider? How on earth would you launch it? Chuck it off a very tall cliff? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil Claridge Posted March 11, 2009 Share Posted March 11, 2009 by the by matthew i had a glass bodied phase 6 with two wing sets cost me £3 i sold it at a club auction for £47 as i wasnt into gliders then Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil Claridge Posted March 11, 2009 Share Posted March 11, 2009 thats why i left it doug, did think of getting it and towing it up with a motor bike the horsa was bought by a man who had flown a real one and now it hangs from his cieling apparently Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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