Commander_Drake

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Here is some inspiration for you. The open cockpit is an easy mod.

txaggie08

Ever have one of those "walk around the room cussing like a sailor cause you lost something" moments? I found my dihedral gauge.....but i think the entire apartment complex knows i can curse in several languages.......

txaggie08

Heres a pic of the right wing going together. I have to write an essay for american history(post 1877), then ill get back to it..

txaggie08

a little sheer webbing

tychoc

Looking good[sm=thumbup.gif]

You're building fast. Don't you have some mid-terms to study for by now....?

What engine are you going to use?

-tychoc

GPutt33

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TxAggie - Your doing great, will be a great flyer Don't be afraid of a few mods either, just plan for them before hand.

Here are a few mods I made to my 4*120, it was lot's of fun and flys great Has a Saito 150 inverted in it with a 3 blade Graupner on it.

If your at all interested, I have a bunch of build pictures on my website, [link=http://groups.msn.com/PuttsRCHomePage/sigfourstar120build.msnw]Putt's RC Home Page[/link] .

Enjoy your build

C_Heath

Just started, Im on Step 1[:@]

txaggie08

LOL, make shure you clamp the spars down realy well......i caught the little gaps mine had in the epoxy quick enough but if there not pushed together hard enough youll have to scrap em

C_Heath

Gonna take me a while.

txaggie08

well i manged to break the leading edge on the right wing panel. After getting rid of the police(who came after i yelled something rude in geramn loudly outside....no ticket they just asked me to be quieter....and what i said LOL), i glued it back on, and once it dries ill finish sanding the wing tip out the rest of the way ill glue it on.

Once the epoxy sets....sometime tommorow(or later today wichever way you look at it, on that.......the wing goes together...WHOOOP!!

txaggie08

Ever have on of those moents were the sheer scale of something sets in...........


This is a little scary just how large it is.....i mena on an intelectual level i realised but god in heaven..............

Commander_Drake

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It seems huge when it's indoors. It will seem a little more reasonable when it's outside. When it's in the air it won't seem so huge any more.

The only problem I have with mine is that it's too light (about 11 pounds). With the Saito 150 at idle the thing keeps taking off again every time I try to land. I have to kill the engine to land it! Im going to mount a camera on it somewhere just to add some weight.

txaggie08

with the motor im planning.......It may shrink once outside....but good god. I honestly think this will be ne of the top five biggest ive seen actuly flying. Ive seen much bigger(try 54% extra 300xs), but not in the air


but boy, im going to embarass some of the hot rod pylon guys with it though

C_Heath

Which Engine you gonna go with?

txaggie08

Jett BSE 1.20

txaggie08

heres a couple of cool mock up pics......the building has stalled until after my mom comes up for thanksgiving.

Motor is a supertigre .75....and its actualy about the right size for the 1.20 BSE

richrd

Wow nice work so far. I'am sure you cann't wait to fly I cann't wait to see some pic's in the air.

Got to say what a great idea ... a wall orinment my wife "wood" love it.
BTW fix the speaker it didn't just blow out did it??
Rich:

C_Heath

lol cerwin vega

hockeydust18

Hey,here are some pics of my Four Star 120 that i finished up a few months ago...engine is a 25cc homelite weedwacker conversion i did my self with parts from wackerengines.com...over all it was an awesome plae to build and it flies like a dream!i mounted serovs in the tail to counter-balance the engine weight,beefed up the firewall,and adjusted the cockpit a little to make it flow better with the turtle deck.kinda like a cap or edge...havent gotten the final weight but im guessing around 15 lbs...the engine is about 4 lbs but the plane handles it fine and dead sticks are gentle...good luck to everyone building..the only hard part about it to me was sanding such a huge model..i used a power sander for the thick fuse sides and did the rest by hand...covering is a little hard too..anyways,keep it up...Dustin

txaggie08

Very nice hockey


Yeah the speaker was messed up and we just never put it back in the cabinet

grandad1

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Hi guys I have read you'll tread and look at the pictures and like what I see but.Has anyone every tryed puting retracks in A 4 # 60 or 120? I am fixing too start putting a 4 # 60 together and thinking about putting retracks in it and was looking for A little help.Any help will be greatley aprated.Thanks


Joe,

txaggie08

You read my mind grandad. Im actualy thinking about seeing if i can get another wing kit and build retracts into it.

Lemme now if you get started on it, or if you want structural pics of an uncovered wing to look at

GPutt33

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Hi Guys - A couple of 3+ years ago, I built my first kit which was a 4 * 60 and posted a building thread here on RCU also. During that same time period, one of the other guys was also building a 4*, and he added retracts to it. He posted pics here on RCU, but I don't know if you could still find them or not. Looked and sounded like it worked pretty cool. I do remember he went with a mechanical set with retract servo. Have fun with your builds

C_Heath

Hey Gputt, I sent you a PM and I see you read it, what gives? lol

GPutt33

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Hi C_Heath - Sorry if you didn't get my PM back to you yesterday. I went into my Sent box though, and am just going to copy out your question and my answer, it'll be quicker that way and might help someone else as well, you just never know.

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QUESTION from C_Heath

Did you leave the final headrest former out? Based on your pictures it looks like it. I want to move mine back but I wanted to ask you first if you just left the forwardmost former out.

Moving that cockpit back makes it look racey. I know its a four star but it dosent take much for it to look like a pylon racer. Just gotta bash it a little bit.

Let me know if ya can.

MY ATTEMPT at an Answer

Hi Chris - I used all of the turtle deck formers as well as the head rest former. It took some doing, but I got them all cut down a little so they kept the stringers in-line. I also love using the lite ply to cover this area. I think it's only about 1/32" thick, it's tough, and yet you can roll into a cone it's so plyable. I use some heavy paper or light cardboard to make the template, and then transfer it on to a sheet of the ply, you can even use scissors to but the ply instead of screwing around with your blade. The reason I did this was to get away from the 'faceted' look you'll get if you cover the turtle deck stringers like they show. I think it also gives the rear area of the plane a lot of added strength.

Your right about this being an easy plane to bash and make it look better. A lot of the guys I've seen have reversed the canopy and made it a much more streamlined look rather then the bubble canopy.

Additional bashing stuff below

Another thing that I've heard about trying, but never done it myself is to tint the canopy with Ritz Dye. I've seen a few done this way, and as long as your aren't going to put a pilot in the cockpit it looks pretty cool. One thing I did on my 4*60 was to use a Harry Potter figure I found, put him on a dowel down through the fuselage, and put a servo arm on the dowl and hooked it up to the rudder servol so when you turned the plane, Harry would turn to the left and right.........