Small Flying Arts

You're always learning in this hobby. One of the things I learned on this build is to keep my C/A bottles widely separated. I have a little crafter's carrying tray with my building supplies since I move back and forth from my shop to the dining room with the heat. (It's been over 100 degrees (F) out...

And, if you haven't guessed it by now...it's a Handley-Page Heyford.

More tomorrow.

KF

July 25th was the O.F.F.C. Dime Scale Contest, or as the CD, Joe Whiting says, 9 Cent Scale, due to the relaxed rules. In this case, it was judging only for extra points, 5 points for low wing, 10 points for biplane, and an extra 10 points for ROG. The contest was for best single flight of unlimited...

Humm, no guesses yet. Well, this should give it away.



KF

Due to an upcoming event a (Psudo) dime scale model (No, this is for me, I'm not kitting dimers!) has been sharing the work space with my Guillow's SE5. I'm going to post a few pictures and see who will be the first one to tell me what aircraft it is supposed to represent. :) I started with the tail...

I traced Former 1 onto a single piece of 1/16" sheet, cut it out and glued it into the back of the plastic nose with the nose reinforcement spacers. Since the plastic nose is meant to go over Former 1 that makes the fuselage 1/16" longer, but who's going to notice? Then I made a simple box...

Good evening, Mrs, Murphy! One of the basic constants of any project is Murphy's Law, usually stated. "If it can go wrong, it will." While I still will plow along an finish it quickly, It won't be flying this Sunday. I did get a good three hours work on it this morning, but when I went to ...

I only had two hours more to work on it. Got the empennage, landing gear legs and lower wing done. Since I will have all day tomorrow I should have it framed covered and assembled tomorrow night. The trick will be to get it rigged and test flown on Saturday. FAC requires full rigging in this class. ...

I had 15 minutes between coming home from dropping my wife at work and leaving for a dentist appointment so I decided to do the other side of the fuselage. I used some laminated blade tools from one of my kits as guides to make sure the other half of the formers were in alignment. They happened to b...

Alert Board Moderator about this Post! Quote Modify Remove There is a local FAC contest (Squadron 69) this Sunday for WWI (Mass Launch), Embryo, and Half Wakefield. I have my own Embryo, and have no plans to build a Half Wakefield, but thought I had a qualifying WWI model. (Let me rephrase that comm...