Tracking my R/C Plane Builds and Key Moments
Today, after quite a hiatus do to not feeling well and timing, it was great to get back to working on my plane this afternoon. The theme of the day was covering, lol. I started by continuing where I left off and covering the fuselage bottom front, seen below. For this piece I made sure […]
Building 4 Star 60 Day 41: Fuse Bottom Front & Top Deck Covered Read More »
Tuesday’s building session involved finishing up covering the turtle deck, top view in the image above, side view below. With the convex curves and having to extend back around the tail makes for one of the trickier pieces of covering I had to do.m Last session I had already cut out the piece, ironed it
Building 4 Star 60 Day 40: Turtle Deck & Landing Gear Plate Covered Read More »
Today was a great building session and two Johns along with one other club member who stopped by for a visit today. Peter’s place was a beehive of activity! Through it all I chatted some, they conversed lots, and I kept working away to put in another 2 hrs on my plane. Today was about
Building 4 Star 60 Day 39: Fuselage Bottom & Top Covering Read More »
Tuesday was another 2hr building session, which is about my typical. When you look at what I got done to the uninitiated you may think to yourself “It took you that long to do what?”. In order to install the rudder and elevator push rods correctly it takes time. The first step is to figure
Building 4 Star 60 Day 38: Rudder & Elevator Push Rods Read More »
On Saturday I got to work on my plane again and made some more progress on covering and installation of the fuel tank. One of the discussion Peter & I had in a previous session was what I’d like to do with the cockpit, use covering or paint it. I decided to go with painting
Building 4 Star 60 Day 37: Covering, Fuel Tank and Rudder Hinged Read More »
Tuesday was an excellent covering session and nice to get in back to back days working on my plane. Covering is definitely a time consuming task and the tail with all its intricacies took a lot of concentration and patience. Throughout the process I learned how to do things better, namely so that I do
Building 4 Star 60 Day 36: Tail Covered Read More »
Being Family Day in Ontario I got over for an afternoon building session with Peter. I started off where I left off, the rudder. I used the heat gun to shrink the covering over the ‘holes’ in the rudder and then using the markings on the fin figured out where the hinge marks were hiding
Building 4 Star 60 Day 35: Tail Covering Started Read More »
It was great to get back working on my aircraft after a 16 day hiatus due to being away for birthday weekends amongst other things. Though I wasn’t able to make it Peter did tinker a bit as he got the engine mounted, fuel tank set up and the throttle connections hooked up. I forgot
Building 4 Star 60 Day 34: Covering Rudder + Hole Made Read More »
