Who is building what for 2015?

[Happy Days]

Don’t be silly Sverrir! :roll:  The V tail would hit me on the head :cry:

[EI1638]

I'm building the worlds most labour intensive Phase 6 kit in history, even allowing for Little Keith's recommended mods.

I was originally planning to have it ready for the September Big L fly in (2014). Need I say any more?

Should be ready for September 2015

[Happy Days]

A Phase 6 Chris! :clap:  What a sensible fellow you are!!  (I take back all the things I’ve been thinking about you)

If you get stuck, give me a call. :wink:

L. Keith

[EI1638]

Hi Keith,

You can stick with all of those unpleasant thoughts about me, they were probably right. If I was sensible I wouldn't be playing with toy airplanes. I'd be playing golf or collecting stamps...

No technical problems really, I was not set up for building plywood fuselages. For the last several years I've been using a 'universal' jig for building wings and fuselages. It started life as a Lincoln Log wing jig, then got modified for carbon rod builds and more recently still got some new attachments made (ahem, essentially lumps of MDF with threaded holes in them) for building fuselages.

Anyway, my universal jig meant that until now I've not had any need for a building board, and since its around 30 years since I last built an all ply fuselage (Middle Phase), I'd forgotten how useful they can be.

The build became labour intensive when I tried making do without a proper building board for the P6, so now in addition to the model itself I've now got a new building board and after 3 attempts a device for reliably making triangle stock. I've also now got a nice set of fusleage sides cut from a single piece of 1/16 ply. At least the fuselage formers are still usable...

Freds laser cutting and cyano meant I didn't need a building board for my Quark Micro.

I strongly suspect that my universal jig will be getting rolled out when its time to stick the P6 fuselage sides together though.

Chris

[Happy Days]

:?: Er,……….. I’m a little confused Chris. (Not difficult for me. The older I get, the more confuse I become )

You mention “making triangle stock” and “a fuse cut from a single piece of ply” Are you building your P6 from a kit or off a plan? (I assume the latter rather than the former)

As for your comments about golf and stamp collecting. Surely anyone can knock a little white ball down a hole in the ground or sit on their arse and move bits of paper around! :lol:

LK.

[EI1638]

Keith,

You could say its a bit of both. After two attempts at building the kit fuselage the ply sides were only good for templates and the kit triangle stock was matchwood.

Attempt 3 appears to be going together much more successfully.

So, hopefully I'll end up with a Little Keith P6, with a hand crafted fuselage and kit flying surfaces - the absence of a proper building board didn't have any impact on the kit flying surfaces, they all appear to be straight and true. Tonights tasks were painting over the repairs to another model and making a neat servo tray. Next I need to figure out where the Rx will fit nicely and allow some reasonable routing for the receiver antennae rather than the usual afterthought "where can these fit and still be out of the way".

BEC to be figured out yet.

Chris

[johnfireball]

My latest build, adding finishing touches. It's a 25" span rubber powered Auster built from the skyleeda plan available for download from Outerzone.
John.  

[EI1638]

Hi John,

Are you printing the tissue or painting?
Brush or air brush?

Chris

[Fred]

Ah John, I love your FF models!  :clap:

[johnfireball]

Hi Chris,
           It's covered in a lightweight iron on film and handpainted afterwards with acrilics. It adds a little weight but looks better in the air.
Thanks Fred, looking like a good flier.
John.

[Fred]

Did a bit more work on the ASH!
Wing tubes glued, and Incidence checked (quadruple check!)

Oh, and I know why I paid almost nothing for the fuselage! One of the wing socket in the fuselage is higher than the other  :!:  Measured it 200 times just to be sure, but it is. Not a biggie, there is a disgraceful step on both wings. I'll see later how to fix that.

Anyway, a few photos:

[andrew wallace]

:shock:  :shock:  :shock:  :shock:  :shock: Fred that looks a while thin wing for the size of the fuselage  :lol:

[stephen.shannon]

What's the WS Fred? That's a beaut

[Fred]

Thank you both  

Yeah, very high aspect ratio on that one!
Very flexy wings, can't wait to see that in the air  

Stephen, WS is 6.5m (but root chord is 210mm on top of my head)
Fuselage is 2.2m long if I remember  :?:

Oh, and finally, after all these years and countless hours of flying, I am giving my ASW15 a bit of attention! New canopy and fresh paint job on the way  

[Fun Flyer]

Hi John, what covering did you use for the Auster and where did you get it?
I need some for a little rubber FF job.
Thanks in advance.