Jim Henley

It's been a long time since I've seen anything like that. On a different note, I ordered part no 2001 from GTM yesterday, I hope to use it to make a more scale appearing interplane strut. While it is not oval like the WACO, it is not exceptionally streamlined like shown on the plans.

froghair1

Stickbuilder

Froghair,

I like your signature line, but I'm a firm believer in fixing it until it is broke.

Bill, Waco Brother #1

froghair1

Looks like I goofed, Have to learn to post without the references and quotees. Must have read the directions wrong.

RICKSTUBBZ

Bill,

Neat find on the tanks. I have a few. The engines and tanks are kept in the same place. So, I could not resist digging them (engines) out for another look too.

I have a ringmaster with a old Fox 35 stunt with one of those Perfect tanks as well. I was not going to take the time to clean it up good enough for the shot.

Starting top left the engines are: GHQ - Fox 15 - Enya 19 - two Fuji's - O&R

Jim Henley

Still making progress (slooowww) here's the luggage compartment door and right front access panel I plan to use 1/64 ply to "skin" the access panels. Now that I have done one, I hope to have less trouble with the second.
Bill did you add reinforcement to compensate for a loss of structural integrity by cutting a hole in the fuselage skin?

Jim Henley

Rick, I was expecting a McCoy red head and maybe a Fox 35. I don't even recognise those engines.

Stickbuilder

Jim,

There is no need to reinforce for the hatches, and the luggage compartment. The engine bearers and/or the cabane plates will more than handle the load. If you do make the servo bay as I did, then you will need to add some hardwood for the stringers along the bottom (at least from the wing saddle to F-14. I also made the lower longeron from hardwood. If you wish, you can add a couple of pieces of triangular stock to the formers that support the main gear. Doing more just makes the model heavier, and gains zero additional strength.

Bill, Waco Brother #1

mrdhud

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Jim,

Your Waco’s looking real good. I couldn’t find the pictures I wonted to send you sorry. I was looking threw the index on page 1 today and thought again how much information is on it. I’m sure every one is aware of it but if not check it out.


At the risk of being alienated I’d like to make a comment about our T shirts. First let me say I’m vary proud to be part of the Brotherhood and where my shirt with pride and appreciate all the hard work Mitch put in to getting them to us. May be it’s just me but the plane on the back of the shirt looks incomplete to me I know it’s the shadow effect that makes it look like that perhaps if it wasn’t the same color as the back ground it may look different. This is just my view and I apologize if I stepped out of line.

Hinckley Bill

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T-shirts came.......lookin' good to me...............will wear with pride!

Anyone looking for a Pepino Waco RTF let me know..............gotta part with the one I have.

5 flights by original owner / builder......none since I acquired it......scheme was modeled after full-scale version

Has a Q52S with spring starter setup

Hitec digital servos

Covered in 21st Century Fabric and painted

Weight 28 lbs dry

Asking price $1250

lazyace

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bill sent you a PM

fishinchickens

I am 15 and am working on my first scale project. I have a 1/5 scale pica WACO that has one cockpit, the extended stabilizer ( in heigth) and has the blisters on the cowal in pairs or two. Any clue which versian this is? Any clue whare I can get documentation for it? I am looking for an unusual subjectv to base it off of. Any clues?

RCplanman

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FishingCchickens, Wellcome young man, you've came to the correct fourm. Good luckon your build. Why don't you ask Stickbuilder to join the WACO Brotherhood-good priceits FREE, good luck

RICKSTUBBZ

Dang Stage coach rolled into town today with my T-shirts! Turns out they had a couple horses go lame some where near Texarkana. Cost em a couple days in the overall trip.

Dan,
I could be all fogged up here. But it seems to me their was conversation (post) about the artwork being designed for one more color or something but to have the other color the shirts would be more or we’d have a larger minimum or some jazz like that. Like I say I could be dreaming. None the less that is what it looks like to me....There could have been one more color to finish off the shading you are referring to.

Anyway, I am happy. After two plus years I finally got me a T-shirt(s). I missed the first batch by a short period of time.

Jim Henley

Dan,
Thanks for checking, for me. I will look at the index and see what I can find.

Jim Henley

Bill, thanks for the information, I suspected between the cabane bearers and everything I would be ok on the strength, but that big ole' hole in the side of the fuse had me worried. I used the template from the kit, but I think it is a little big, and does not have the rounded corners, like the prototype. Anyway, now I have a good template to use on the other side, so it won't need so much "fixing" as the first one.

nine o nine

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Another color would have added a few more dollars per shirt. Being a dark color shirt the design had to have a white base. The design was approved as it is both for artistic license and economy's sake. Mitch

Neil K

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I make a motions to nominate Fishinchickens to the Waco Brotherhood, at 15 and on a scale project of that size and scope, he is certainly beyond worthy.
Neil K.
Waco Brother# 142

RICKSTUBBZ

Jim,

Your WACO is coming along nice.....

As to those engines, at least a couple of them are older than I am. I went back to the post and editted it by adding the engine brand names. Actually I have a couple of the Fox .35's just did not picture them.

reyn3545

Bill... what a GREAT looking plane. I've only had the time and good weather to get my Pepino in the air once, but it was a very nice plane to fly. Whoever gets this one will have a real beauty on their hands!

Stickbuilder

Per your description, you have the Pica 1/5th scale Waco UMF-5. The paired blisters mean that the full scale used the Continental engine. The enlarged vertical stabilizer would mean that it was the -5 variant. Most of the -3 versions have been modified to the-5 tail. Until a couple of years ago, the YMF cowl (equally spaced blisters) never has been available. The only way to get one before that was to compute the centers, and make it yourself from the cowl kit that came with the Pica kit.

Best of luck with yours, and if you would like to become a Brotherhood member, just let us know.

As for documentation, you can get plenty right here. You just need to decide on your color scheme, and there will be tons of help. Remember, there were not hundreds of the UMF/YMF built, so there is a limit to what is there.

Bill, Waco Brother #1

Hinckley Bill

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I agree, it's a beauty, even have the scale documentation with pics of the "real-thing".......

Also have an AMR 33% Waco that I have to decide if I want to keep and recover.....would rather stay big, better to see with older eyes.

reyn3545

Yep.. I remember the AMR... white with Red Baron graphics? I wanted that one when it was listed a few months ago... it wouldn't fit in my Navigator. I think that's the one.

If you lived a little closer to Atlanta, I think we'd work out a deal on something. These planes are kind of like girlfriends back in highschool.. you really like the one you have, but the others sure are pretty too!

Hinckley Bill

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Actually that's the Balsa USA Stearman with a Moki 215 radial ...... am just selling the airframe now.

reyn3545

Ahh.... yes! Geez, with all those toys, I hope you have a big basement!