I’m in the process of building a Chris Foss Acro Wot (assembling would be a more accurate description, foam / veneer wings, sheet tail feathers, fibre glass cowl and all wood pre-cut); certainly not a scale model so what is it doing here in scale-model.co.uk? There is a logical reason so please read on.
Although I live in County Durham I’m not one of your “Hardy Northerners”, I hail from the balmier, or should that be barmier, climes of Leicestershire. As the harsh northern winter approaches I pack away the flying gear and hibernate in the workshop to do a bit of balsa-bashing and carry out those essential checks / repairs.
RC flying is a bit like riding a bike, once you can do it you never forget but after several months of inactivity the thumbs do tend to get a bit “rusty”, so for the first few sessions of the new season I prefer to fly something that doesn’t cause too much stress. For the last 9 years this has been a Howard Metcalfe Moonraker; much modified over the years, sometimes intentionally like the nose section shortened and strengthened to take a Laser 70 instead of the original OS 40 FS and sometimes unintentionally like when the “40 trainer style” wing attachment proved to be not up to the job of keeping things together whilst being thrown around the sky with the Laser at full bore!
Having read through the Acro Wot instructions I realised that there are some building techniques that are not explained very well, or not at all, this I’m sure applies to a lot of kits. As these points arise I intend to post a tutorial and I hope you will not think that I’m “teaching Grandma to suck eggs” because although to the experienced modeller this lack of instruction may cause no problems, as No.6 pointed out in another thread not all of us have years of experience.
The first will be on ply doublers, hopefully I’ll get it done tomorrow.
Although I live in County Durham I’m not one of your “Hardy Northerners”, I hail from the balmier, or should that be barmier, climes of Leicestershire. As the harsh northern winter approaches I pack away the flying gear and hibernate in the workshop to do a bit of balsa-bashing and carry out those essential checks / repairs.
RC flying is a bit like riding a bike, once you can do it you never forget but after several months of inactivity the thumbs do tend to get a bit “rusty”, so for the first few sessions of the new season I prefer to fly something that doesn’t cause too much stress. For the last 9 years this has been a Howard Metcalfe Moonraker; much modified over the years, sometimes intentionally like the nose section shortened and strengthened to take a Laser 70 instead of the original OS 40 FS and sometimes unintentionally like when the “40 trainer style” wing attachment proved to be not up to the job of keeping things together whilst being thrown around the sky with the Laser at full bore!
Having read through the Acro Wot instructions I realised that there are some building techniques that are not explained very well, or not at all, this I’m sure applies to a lot of kits. As these points arise I intend to post a tutorial and I hope you will not think that I’m “teaching Grandma to suck eggs” because although to the experienced modeller this lack of instruction may cause no problems, as No.6 pointed out in another thread not all of us have years of experience.
The first will be on ply doublers, hopefully I’ll get it done tomorrow.
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