Radio Control: Scale

Radio Control Scale Bud Atkinson contest season full swing now according news letters AMA competition News Letter plenty scale contests attendmostly Stand-off Scale should say solely Stand-off Scale would like say word passing American Aircraft Modeler magazine scale enthusiast owes lot AAM through years have done lot presenting good scale coverage some excellent threeviews hard-to-come-by color drawings pictures hang past AAM magazines Im sure will become col lectors items future Talking scale people around Mid west winter indicates lot new scale jobs being built Glad hear previous column mentioned FR-i Fireball build round egg-shaped fuse will give run down Ive found easiest way First maintain true straight fuse use keel method Use flat board fter hard wood such bass pine mahogany Trace lower outline fuselage board Cut Out outline say 1/4 wide deep Save lower board tack work bench Now drill three four small holes Y4 sq drive small nails main board Mark formers will glued re Use triangle align formers es pecially fire wall Also cut top stringer like bottom may made balsa bow ormers cut out sheet form curve fuse top Now keel formers attached work bench start strip planking best way havefound start 3/16 sheet Cut strips ide using band-saw jig-saw setting table slightly off level bevel strip form curve formers way use 3/32 ply make formers except firewall ply very strong will collapse doesnt weigh much balsa after center cut out may say thick strips Three-sixteenths strips gives lots sanding room will sink between formers very im portant step mark formers points wing passes through formers Mark both sides right left saw saw half way through formers point marked planking finished easy cut exact wing cut out cidence will correct use plain old airplane glue hold strips formers lot pins nice rainy Sunday afternoon cant get out fly natural time build fuse plank ing goes very fast once get started should able plank about 75 per cent fuse keel jig before removing after say 24 hours use heavy paper sand ing block rough sand shape fuse Save saw dust make wing cut out cockpit etc make dummy wing center section out foam say 10 span fit wing saddle finish planking Now planking done have rough sanded fuse use clear dopesay pint Add four drops castor oil to slow its drying Brush good coat dope fuse making sure work some cracks strips Now take hand full sanding dust working cross grain work cracks Let dry several hours sand will fill cracks fuse Now go ahead silk thats Any cracks left after silking may filled undercoat finish have used method years such Magnificent Emeraude enabled Bob Wiseher win Radio Control World Championships last summers AerOlympics held Lakehurst airplanes Fireball Dornier 335 others old Domier now nine years old hanging hobby shopthe fuse true day built back 65 Try youll like it! subject Dornier past years have requests plans formation concerning unusual WW II air craft plans have gone long ago some information concerning Dornier DO 335 An excellent set three views ap peared Air Progress October 1965 other good source information Aero Publishers 329 Aviation Rd Fallbrook Calif 92028 Dornier DO-335 Pfeil Aero series volume 9 have good color drawings lot unusual pictures unusual aircraft have method construction out RC land scale let know will pass scale modelers address 734 North 67th St Terrace Blue Springs Mo 64015 Attending Toledo show April very pleased see new scale kits fine array scale attendance World War II its share exhibit Its evident Scale surely up-swing especially Stand-off guys out cant complain about nothing build WW newer jets also lot new biplanes So lets build Scale August1975 19 Above people build exotic shape fuselagesas Curtiss WW II dive-bomber author describes keel method Just look what crew figures scale effect Right big engine faired nicely hardly notices its presence