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#91
Building / Construction / Re: Latest Print
Last post by davidk - March 29, 2024, 09:11:33 PM
Wings done.  Electronics next.
#92
Building / Construction / Re: Top Flite SE5A - 50 year o...
Last post by Michael - March 29, 2024, 09:02:40 PM
Battery hatch is hinged.

More hard-points and rigging anchors on the wing.
#93
Building / Construction / Re: Box Fly 20- electric build
Last post by Frank v B - March 29, 2024, 08:10:27 PM
starting to assemble the fuse.

F.
#94
Building / Construction / Re: Latest Print
Last post by davidk - March 28, 2024, 02:09:34 PM
Big surfaces on this plane.
#95
Building / Construction / Re: Latest Print
Last post by Frank v B - March 27, 2024, 10:03:28 PM
Looks like a Formosa biplane- a mid-air collision between two Formosa pylon racers.
Love the two-tone elements.

Frank
#96
Building / Construction / Re: Box Fly 20- electric build
Last post by Frank v B - March 27, 2024, 10:01:09 PM
Yes, Guy.

Before I started building it I flipped one fuse side over.
Sounds like you speak from experience.... but so do I!  8)

This is not a kit.  It is a 3D puzzle.  Formers are marked on the plans and the formers have laser numbering (F1- F11) but the numbers do not match the plans.  The laser cutting is so precise they only fit one way.

Frank

ps: I had to line them up that way to join them because the steel ruler had to be on the bottom of each piece.  Otherwise I could not have fit all the pieces on the board in one sitting..
#97
Building / Construction / Re: Latest Print
Last post by sihinch - March 27, 2024, 06:08:18 PM
That looks imposing!  What is the model?

Bravo David.
#98
Building / Construction / Latest Print
Last post by davidk - March 27, 2024, 11:00:31 AM
This has only an 1100mm wingspan but there's so much bulk to it.
#99
Building / Construction / Re: Box Fly 20- electric build
Last post by GuyOReilly - March 27, 2024, 08:05:37 AM
Looks like a fun kit to build.
Make sure you do not end up with 2 right sides as the picture indicates. :D
#100
Building / Construction / Box Fly 20- electric build
Last post by Frank v B - March 26, 2024, 10:47:55 PM
When I visited family in Holland in October 2023, I visited Ton van Munsteren.  He is a prolific designer and has many models published in British model magazines.  The best way to describe him is to call him Holland's Laddie Mikulasko*. 
Ton had just designed and built the Box Fly 20 and gave me a kit.  I had to cut the pieces to fit them into my suitcase.

The first step was to re-glue all the cut pieces.  I pinned one piece to the board and aligned the other half by using a steel edge to make it straight.

Will let them cure overnight before starting to assemble the plane.

Photos:
1) photo of my visit to Ton's house and shop.  The plane is in the foreground.
2) the kit as given to me
3) all the pieces were nicely laser cut.
4) the pieces I had cut apart were glued together.  Note the metal ruler used to make sure the pieces were straight.

Frank

* Laddie flies with the Burlington group and has many designs published in RCM magazine.  He designed the Force 1, Laker, Northstar and Easy 100 put out by Balsa USA.