Darren

hmmmmm The met office are reporting 26mph winds and rain for sunday

Apologies for the huge pics, these were from the seller and I forgot to resize

Been looking out for something that could be used as a toffee bomber at the show and this looked ideal. 86" span 1/4 scale clipped wing taylorcraft, Top Gun ARTF with an Evolution (i.e. MVVS) 26cc petrol motor.

I wondered who'd crack first and want to know more! It was a bargain purchase and one with a justifiable purpose and an engine you'll be pleased with. I've been on the look out for something that can double up as a toffee bomber at the show. Managed to pick up a 2nd hand 1/4 scale clipped wing taylorcraft with a 26cc petrol (evolution i.e. MVVS) for less than the cost of the engine. I'll post some pics in a new thread. I've also been asked to do a RCMW review of a sports model - don't know exactly what it is yet but I'm expecting a box from Traplet soon

Well if the wind ever calms down I might make it too, but I'll have to decide if I bring this or my other new plane

It's finished, left & right interwing struts colour coded, spats on, ready to go. All I need now is some good weather and a chance to run in the engine. I'll get some final rigged pics at the EGM this week. See you all there

Yes, mine too but it's not long enough. Also a bit worried about it rubbing if I do what I plan, but a bit of heat shrink over the cable will help. I won't do anything before Thursday and the EGM and you can all offer your thoughts on the matter. I have now just rigged it all and it balances spot on. So battery to be fitted properly and fit of the spats and she's deon

Right, the rudder & elevators are all fitted and working, a short servo extention added to the throttle and that's OK, tank is in and plumbed, wing servos/horns/linkages fitted and set-up and the main switch fitted. The interwing linkage horns have been re-fitted but I haven't rigged the model yet to see if they are any better I decided to cut a hole in the cowl rather than try and mount a remote glow somewhere and I haven't decided what to do about the needle valve yet. Because it is angled it would need a largish hole in the top of the cowl. I'm thinking about fitting a boden

OK, more thinking about those interwing linkage horns and I've decided that glassing the originals is going to be much less work than making new. I've a length on 90 degree angle carbon fibre if these don't prove to be up to the job. Below are the during and after shots

......... oh and before anyone mentions it, there are spats and shaped & coloured undercarriage covers to fit.

Well there is a mix of news, some good, some great, some dubious and some bad. The good news is that it really is nearly finished, install elevator & rudder servos and pushrods, put in the tank and fit a switch. The great news is that the OS120AX has been independently tested giving 15.5lbs thrust with an APC 16x8 and I've just weighed including a bag of the bits still to be fitted and it's about 10 lbs The other great news is that the thing I was due to do on Sunday has been cancelled and although it's last sunday, I might get it to the field this week - although it will o

If only I was that handsome

Yes I know, but I couldn't find one of the right scale that I wasn't going to have to spend more time painting than building the model Anyway, I don't really care

OK, a bit more progress - I can't emphasize how quickly this is going together - I'm only doing 30 mins or so at a time. The cowl mounts are nice items, you bolt to the firewall and then screw through the cowl. I've tried to soften the mounting a bit with thin 'fuel tube' washers on the mounting screws. I've also decided that the silencer out pipe wasn't going to work so I've twisted it through 90degrees and cut a small outlet. I did hope that I'd be able to route the exhaust out the scale position but it would need about 4" of silicon tube - just a bit too long. Also fitted my p

A few more pics. The epoxy method seems to have done the trick, one side done the other gluing at the moment. Also, I didn't think the earlier pic of the 120 with the irvine 53 really showed the size difference so I took another one. Finally, I've temporarily fitted the cowl, a 16x6 prop and spinner just to get a feel for how it will look. I'm happy

the tailplane fits into the moulded slot and is glued in with medium cyno, at least that's what the manual says. The problem is that the flaired slot doesn't match the profile of the tailplane exactly. So, how do you glue a contact patch about 10inches long with cyno holding the two surfaces together without making a mess and ending up with your fingers stuck to the model The lower part of the tailplane slot fitted well so the bottom has been cyno'd in, and I've done one side of the upper by using epoxy and clamping a firmish piece of balsa along the top after protecting all the exp

The engine box is predrilled and captive nuts fitted, therefore if you're not going to use the recommended engine, I'd take some measurements first to see if it's close to the OS 120 size. The engine mount supplied has slightly slotted holes for bolting to the engine box so you've probably got an adjustment of about 5mm in engine width to play with. The fitting of the plastic skin to the firewall on one side wasn't perfect and although nothing could go through it was a place that fuel could seep in. Also the OS 120 AX is light and I felt I cold therefore get away with adding a bit of wei

The model construction is a little different, it is described as wood formers fitted with carbon stringers inside a moulded plastic skin. I couldn't quite imagine what that really was, but Ali convinced me that it was OK. I though it would be a real thick heat shrink film fitted to the structure but it seems to be more like you would expect with a GRP fuse. A moulding in which the wood/carbon has been fitted. The skin is stiffer than I had expected, I think it will take the knocks of hangar rash, transport and general flying very well, if/when it needs a major repair it could be a diffe

I've always fancied a Pitts and after selling a few bits I find myself with some space sort of. Well, you can always make room can't you So, after a bit of research it was shortlisted to the Cermark and the ASM ARTF's both of which are quarter scale and around 60" span. Jimbo & Brian have the Cermark so I thought I'd give the ASM a go. It helps that it has been reviewed in the current RC Model Flyer, Ali at Avicraft gave it a recommendationa nd he could get me one in two days. So I picked it up on Thursday, unfortunately this meant I couldn't keep it secret from Steve who h

In that case, can I have your Yak

It's always the same, the initial enthusiasm wears off and posting slows down. You end up with a core of posters and a lot of lurkers. The newsletter is the same, Peter is constantly encouraging people to submit stuff for the newsletter but it always ends up with just Roger and PeterR. It was the same when I did the newsletter. It used to bug me, 'why are we trying so hard' but now I accept that this is the way it is and don;t worry anymore.

Thought of and have been converted. Just about to buy my third petrol motor. OK mixing oil with the petrol is a bit of a pain, but at least twice as economical, petrol half the price of nitro amkes a lot of sense. Plus no glow start etc.

Yep, as Stephen said I always loop the control wire around and through again and put a dab of cyno on the crimp. But I use a set of pliers to do my crimps as well and haven't had a failure yet.

And a huge thanks must go to those non-club members who always work so hard. Off the top of my head and apologies to those I miss Ann, Ann, Kerry, Hollie, Sue, Sandra, Caroline, Theresa, Dom, Derek, Darren and Darren's mate whose name I never found out.

Too busy for any serious shopping but I did offer Pete Tindal £50 for his Sukhoi now it's sporting out of date livery I won't tell you what he said, there may be children looking