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| hjlittman, Comment for image # 44888 | 01 Aug 25 23:52 |
| The letters were printed on tissue,cut out and applied with glue stick. The trick to printing white markings is to put the tissue on the carrier sheet and give it a light misting of Design Master White floral spray. (Design Master floral sprays are the lightest rattle can sprays I have found.) When you print the markings use an outline of the color that the markings will be applied to, in this case red. When you cut out the markings cut in the outline. |
| bsadonkill, Comment for image # 44888 | 31 Jul 25 15:18 |
| Very Nice! how did you get the white letters so white? |
| hjlittman, Image # 44888 | 30 Jul 25 22:27 |
[using the wood and tissue in the kit it is a bit of a brick. 21 grams with rubber, not heavy but not competative. |
| hjlittman, Image # 44887 | 30 Jul 25 22:24 |
Thhis is what it looks like done, |
| hjlittman, Image # 44884 | 26 Jul 25 22:43 |
Decided not to paint anything on this one, everything is tissue wrapped. Hint, if you want to wet tissue wrap something like a wheel pant think of it as a fuselage and cover one side at a time. |
| hjlittman, Image # 44883 | 25 Jul 25 23:56 |
Balsa bits, cowl and wheel pants. |
| hjlittman, Image # 44882 | 25 Jul 25 23:55 |
Using a template cut from a copy of the plan mounted on cardstock to check my turning of the cowl. |
| hjlittman, Image # 44881 | 23 Jul 25 23:22 |
tissu on fuselage is shrunk and fixed and opening for rubber is enlarged and keyed. |
| hjlittman, Image # 44880 | 23 Jul 25 23:21 |
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| hjlittman, Image # 44878 | 20 Jul 25 18:02 |
This little box fuselage would have been very frustrating for an inexperienced young builder back in the 30s. |
| hjlittman, Image # 44877 | 20 Jul 25 18:01 |
Dime scale contest coming up and I have thiis 1939 Hi Flier Monocoupe kit so... |
| bobgood, Comment for image # 44872 | 05 Jul 25 12:53 |
| Amazing couple of flights there......so stable too. |
| hjlittman, Comment for image # 44872 | 04 Jul 25 20:38 |
| I took it to the OFFC meeting least Wednesday and started some low powered trimming flights. When it was trimmed to turn comfortably in the middle of the room it would fly for a while then spin in. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXA9I3feqLo but if I opened the turn it took the whole width of the room to circle. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGkCL5noPAk I was afraid to put enough turns into it to get it to climb in the gym so I packed it up and flew another model. On the way home it occurred to me that maybe it wanted to turn left so I'll try that next week. |
| hjlittman, Image # 44872 | 04 Jul 25 20:29 |
I clipped the gear off ot it. Only saved 0.84 grams but the reduction in drag was stunning |
| hjlittman, Comment for image # 44869 | 29 Jun 25 20:02 |
| I took it to the LoCal contest this morning (Finished second with my 15 year old P-51.) to see how it did outdoors. I put some larger, 3/32", rubber in it. It was a bit tail heavy with that rubber but I didn't have any stall/spin crashes and it's still in one piece. A little clay in the cowl fixed the tail heavy problem. With enough winds in it to get a long flight it has trouble handling the torque on launch but if the rubber is backed off it won't climb. I' going to try a smaller prop. There was a slight breeze and it had some trouble with penetration because it is rather draggy. I think I should have built it "gear up" even though our indoor Peanut contests have an ROG bonus. |
| bobgood, Comment for image # 44869 | 29 Jun 25 10:58 |
| Very unusual model - I don't recall those in the UK! |
| bobgood, Comment for image # 44869 | 29 Jun 25 10:57 |
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| hjlittman, Comment for image # 44869 | 27 Jun 25 22:15 |
| I only had a few minutes to trim it because there was a P-18 contest that morning and the time I had was from the end of the contest until we had to give up the gym. Fortunately, it flew stabily from the start. Since it is rather draggy ( I think that I should have built it gear up.) it does need more power, so I will have to use 3/32" rubber instead of the 1/16" I had in it. I got flights all the way the length of the gym but it doesn't want to turn. I will try trimming it outdoors at the Black Sheep LoCal contest on Sunday morning. |
| bobgood, Comment for image # 44869 | 25 Jun 25 08:19 |
| Very cool! |
| hjlittman, Image # 44869 | 25 Jun 25 00:08 |
Well, there it is. 1930s modeling. Now to see if it flies. |
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