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DeAgostini Spitfire - 1:10 scale - Anyone have experience?

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angry_muppet:
I finally got around to starting the modifications last night... Hopefully progress may be rather faster now that I've made a start.

I did a few calculations and figure I have approximately 60mm inside the cowl to play with to fit a battery through the present firewall. This should assist in maintaining the CoG without resorting to ballast. Having never scratch built a motor box, or battery box, this could get interesting. It'll all have to be hand cut.  :(

angry_muppet:
Making a little more progress...

Templates photocopied, ready to go once I clear a little more space to work!

angry_muppet:
Having started the build and got about halfway through assembling the frame of the fuse, I realised I'd made a clanger...  I placed the very first piece on the jig upside down. The result is now that there is left thrust angle in place of the correct right thrust angle.   :-[ I did try to abide by the "read twice and then read again before building"; unfortunately I've been the "better idiot" to break a fairly idiot proof method.

I pushed on regardless to finish off the fuselage and worry about fixing the angle later.  As I'm not going IC, the motor and battery will need to be shifted forward through the original firewall.  To do that, I'll construct a ply motor mount and affix into the existing firewall and correct the error that way.

I've cut the intended shapes from 3mm liteply; while perhaps not strong enough, it'll allow me to easily join to the fuse temporarily to test the fit of the cowl and motor.  Unless liteply will suffice?  Something tells me not to!

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