Thursday, September 23, 2010



Well.... I am back from Europe, and back to building. Had a great trip, just wish it was longer I could have flown a free flight model in the park, would have been different.

I ordered some free flight model kits, which came in today. Also got the parts to finish my Matt Chapman flatout. Hopefully can finish that this weekend. But got the build of the Retro RC skyace done today. I just have to do the finish on it. Will look great with some neon green. Will have to get some colored sharpies. But damn it is so tiny, i love it.

Wednesday, September 8, 2010

Pictures from Fly In




Poor P-51




I got in the light set for my ultra micro P-51 and realized that the stabilizers were damaged severely, beyond repair. I will hopefully be able to pick up a set at R/C Buyers tomorrow. I also realize that I really need to go through all of my batteries and figure out which are still good and which need to be tossed, and then get a bunch to replace the bad ones. Probably go with the 150 mah ones from Common Sense R/C as they have a nice form factor compared with the e-flight 150mah batteries.

I also got all of the tape covering on the Gremlin. It looks good, except it has way too many wrinkles. I hope some come out when shrinking with a covering iron, but still, not the best covering job in the world. But, it should fly, and that is all that matters since it will be my first combat event. Hopefully I can get some experience before then.



And two aircraft I really want, the Quickflick II DLG and the E-Flight UMX Beast. I will probably pick up a Quickflick in the next couple months to build. But the beast is so pretty, and impressive. The new receiver brick seems like something I should consider getting as well for a foamie or something. So many aircraft to build. I am trying to stay away from the ready made stuff, but some of the eflight and parkzone stuff is just perfect, especially the ultra micros.... hopefully one day I can build stuff just as good. Easiest might be a kit for the Plantraco hardware as a first ultramicro build. And then a foamie for the new spektrum brick. So many possibilities.

Monday, September 6, 2010

Shot a bunch of touch and goes today, went ok, not all of them were perfect. But more importantly I was able to catch a thermal with the supercub and climb to about 500 or 600 feet at about 25% throttle. Was really cool. I am a tad hooked. Thinking some gliders really need to be in the build queue soon. Just trying to decide if I should do a HLG or a powered glider. Really thinking the Quick Flick II DLG from Mountain Models. Will be good, just worried about flying out of a short field and ending up not being able to make it back to the field.

Sunday, September 5, 2010

I have to say, my first few hours building the flatout foamie did not go so well a couple months ago, and I put it aside out of frustration. I must say however, after getting some little transfer pipets do apply the CA accelerator instead of the spray, things have turn out well on this project. I haven't been working on it for a few days since I needed to get cracking on the Grelmin, but I might work on it some today. I can probably do everything that doesn't involve electronics today if I feel like it. Will have to see how lazy I am.

Also thinking that I might do a Multiplex glider 'kit' for my first glider. It is foam, so will be easy to repair like the parkzone radian, but will at least get to do some building and hopefully learn a bit about glider setup before tackling a scratch built one. I am still on that steep part of the learning curve, where even fairly simple builds will teach me something new. So just need to build lots (hopefully start scratch building by the end of the year to save lots of cash) and fly a bunch more. .