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Hi all and Happy New Year! Attached are some new photos showing all the framed parts. Am waiting on a muffler from Bennet and then I can finish sheeting. The pictures show the wings and stab ready for cap strips, the engine installation.
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2 more, switch installation (poor quality picture), and inside the fuselage showing it's monocoque construction. The switches and fueler will get sheeted over and then I will cut foles and add scale doors.
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Hi there,
I am the other club member Dave mentioned in his original post. We are both building the DV from his plans. We get together about once a week to check progress. He shows me some new techniques and I try to slow him down a bit. This is my first giant scale gas model and building along with Dave has helped my confidence quite a bit. I thought the build would be a lot more difficult than it is. I have been taking lots of pictures of both airplanes as they progress. Dave invited me to post some to this thread. Here are a few pictures of my progress. The first three are of my rudder control installation, bending the wing tip bow, and cap stripping the lower wing. The last one is a picture of Dave's fuse with the top wing in place. You can see the switch installation clearly in the last picture.
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Dave S is doing a GREAT job. Kind of makes me feel like a hack. This is his first large scale model. He has done lot of stick and tissue stuff and I have always felt that is the ultimate training ground!
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I have always wanted to compete in RC scale. Like Dave says, I am planning to take the albatros to Mint Julip. I also want to fly at the nationals at Muncie and the WWI fly in there this summer. I think three meets is about all I will be able to manage this year. They are all within four or five hours of home. I will fly the Albatros in expert. I am also trying to finish up a small Tiger Moth from Gordon Whitehead plans that I may throw in the van and fly in fun scale at Mint Julip.
As you know Dave is definitely not a hack. His advice to me is not to spend much time on stuff nobody is going to see. But I cant resist trying to make scarf joints perfect and stuff like that. Last weekend Dave and I figured that I take about a day to do what he does in about an hour, depending on the task. He has also introduced me to the joy of CA and 80 grit sandpaper. Most of my building in the past has been smaller free flight and rc stuff. I used a lot of ambroid and titebond on those models. CA definitely speeds things up.
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I saw Dave's plane last year at the MJ and I enjoyed watching it fly and looking at it on the ground. I liked his presentation. I have the plans for that Tiggy, too. I like Whitehead designs.
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I have a little more progress to report. I have been working on the stab mount and sheeting the tail cone. This part is not easy for me. The pictures tell the story. The first shot shows the ribs for the stab stubs going on. That part was not too bad. The next picture shows the top of the stab stubs sheeted. Again, not to hard. The third shot shows part of the fuse sheeting that meets the top of the stab sheeting. Now things get hard. Fitting this sheed turned out to not be so bad. The right side went on ok but I messed up the left side and left a gap between the front of the sheet and the rear of the sheet on the fuse it meets with. This gap was enourmous,,,, to me at least. I took the piece off and replaced it. It looks better now. The third and forth pictures show the result so far. The sheet just above the ones I just put on has proved to be a real pain. I have split two pieces so far. I decided to soften the wood first and I have a couple of pieces soaking in water and amonia as I type this. My next attempt will be to bend the wet wood to shape and let it dry a bit to relieve the stress. I did this with another airplane and was able to bend a 1/8th in thick piece 180 degrees around a 1.5 inc radius. I think wetting the wood should help. If I get too frustrated I will just switch to another task. I still have my ailerons to attach and lots of other stuff to do. Anyway that is it for now.
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