w1nd6urfa

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We have a winner ! Well spotted Roger

BTW the canopy was the easy part, the hard one was recovering the wings with Fliteskin and building the wing filet that was missing in the original ARF

http://www.rcuniverse.com/forum/rc-w...fliteskin.html

TerryW

Roger cheated, he knew there was a Kyosho 90 and I didn't know. just kidding but will look into the Kyosho kit.

verbails

Bugger had considered Kyosho but the engine intake under the wing had convinced me otherwise! Good call Roger. I have flown a few Kyoshos and consider that awesome models would recommend them to anyone!!

w1nd6urfa

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The Kyosho is an easy build and very friendly flying characteristics, it is just plain wrong in many scale aspects:

- Wings and tail surfaces enlarged
- Wrong rudder outline for a MkII
- LG further out and forward
- Tiny wing filet (that I had to fix!)

Not sure if it has been posted here already, there is a new kit in the block that I bought recently with excellent scale proportions and very light construction with composite and epoxy sandwich (airex?) materials

TopRC 81" Spitfire: http://www.rcuniverse.com/forum/rc-w...e-changer.html

ForcesR

I wish this Spitfire was available last summer when I purchased the H9 30cc Spitfire. I like the looks of this one over the H9, and this Spitfire looks to be more scale than the H9 too.

W1nd6Urfa; you're so very lucky to have this one!!

Roger

ForcesR

I just found this link to two videos (post # 1047) of an actual V12 RC engine that runs and sounds great, it would be ideal to install in a Spitfire.

Roger

http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showt...298118&page=70

Elcorro

Hi all, Awesome looking Spits out there! It's been some time since I've been on here, but I will post a few pics of my TF 60 Mk.9 when I sort out the bugs on my Tablet

kimhey

Hi guys,

I just received the decals/nomenclature rub-on set (tailormadedecals.com) for my C-arf Spitfire, and I need guideance where to put them on correctly. If anyone of you gentlemen can provide me with this info (photos/downloads/links), I will be greatful

Kind regards
Kim
([email protected])

kimhey

Hi guys,

I just received the decals/nomenclature rub-on set (tailormadedecals.com) for my C-arf Spitfire, and I need guideance where to put them on correctly. If anyone of you gentlemen can provide me with this info (photos/downloads/links), I will be greatful

Kind regards
Kim
([email protected])

ForcesR

Kim; this link and photos of Spitfire marking/decals may be helpful.

Roger

https://www.google.ca/search?q=Spitf...1%3B800%3B1051

w1nd6urfa

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Stencils guide:

kimhey

Thanks gentlemen!

Kim

kittykatjaz

My Pica Spitfire's wing strengthening is done and she is now ready to fly again.

All up the modifications added 1.32 lb so now weighs 26.23 lb. The CoG did not shift which is great. With the retracts shifted and raked forward the tail can be lifted well over centre now before tipping forward. The ground handling should now be easily manageable and will find out for sure soon.

Still have radiator covers and guns to fit.

Jaz

Eddie P

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Getting ready to have my H9 Spitfire completed. I've got custom graphics to make her into a Czech flown RAF Spitfire MkIX of sq.222, and flown by Otto Smik during WWII. Mods are custom wing blisters added, scale exhausts, full cockpit, full pilot with head motion, Merlin engine sound system, etc. Upgraded the flaps to fit better. Electric power, Hacker motor and 12s on a 20x13 prop, Castle Creations HV160f ESC.

w1nd6urfa

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Wow, that's great
I'd love to see her in flight with the Merlin sound

gary mark9

Eddie P looks great I have a 1/5 EMS spitfire with a rim fire 65 out runner on 12s 5000ma it runs best on a 24x10 prop .I get 6 min. with a couple min. to spare for landing. What size packs are you going to be running on your spit?

Eddie P

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Thanks guys, appreciate that. Gary, I'm running 12s 5000mah packs. I should be pulling just under 95 amps or so at full throttle, maybe less. Prop pitch speed over 100mph so I should be able to see at least 80-85mph in flight.

Prekin

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Ed, you´ve got pretty nice scale instrument panel! Where did you buy it?

gary mark9

Sounds good Eddie let me know how she flys. The weather in Kansas in May has been windy and rain so not much flying getting done.

w1nd6urfa

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Hi Prekin,
AeroCockpit.com in Czech Republic?
Alex (IFlyTailies) is the US importer

Prekin

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Yeach, AeroCockpit... I know ths guy from Vsetin. He is not far away from my home.

Eddie P

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Hello Prekin! Will post a few more photos of your exhaust stacks soon... Thanks again for all the inspiration from your build and help.

I purchased the instrument panel "kit" from Mick Reeves. It's the 1/6 scale panel. It's a little small-ish for the H9, but it does the trick on this 1/5.5 Spitfire. Where it's small is the width really more than anything, the depth (top to bottom) is fine a little small because my pilot is also 1/6 scale and he sits just "slightly" higher up in the cockpit due to the flight control rigging that would have kept him too high if he were "perfectly" scale sized. So the cockpit panel looks good with him. The design of the H9 Spitfire has two structural box members running longitudinally (for and aft) on the sides of the inner fuse structure. That makes the cockpit appear falsely narrower than it is because it catches the eye when the lower cockpit tub is not painted the proper color (after removing the false floor). So, if you cut out notches in the instrument panel to account for those local width restrictions, the rest of the panel fits in a much larger cockpit than the panel can actually fill. But you can't tell from above, it looks fine and blends in nicely. When the rest of the cockpit tub is painted the proper color it brings it all together.

The seat structure is also the Mick Reeves seat. It can be made pretty scale but I did deviate a little for functionality and weight savings. It's mostly plastic parts that make up a shell and you paint the rest accordingly. The aft window is simply thin styrene and the screws to attach are #0 flat top, phillips head self tapping screws (like what BVM sells as "polyply" screws for scale landing gear doors and scale accessories, but I buy in bulk). The framing in the forward area is a laminate of 1/64" ply and balsa carefully sanded to shape to fit the proper form. The plastic cockpit plastic was cut carefully so that the forward frame wind screen and the main sliding canopy "glass" can be used. The aft window on the vaccu formed canopy was discarded to I could have a better fitting, more scale aft window. The cockpit will have a partial floor but it will not be structural - rather it will be a piece of colored card stock for weight savings.

Each sub component of the cockpit came in it's own "kit" and it could be daunting for someone not prepared to open a small bag or box of tiny plastic bits. but scale modeling being scale modeling, it's what I expected. Plus, typically, I'll make these things up from scrap on my own so this was a treat.

I was originally planning to use Chad V's cockpit kit (he's on this forum as well as RCG, does great stuff). I waited too long to contact him to ask, so when I was ready to start on the cockpit, Chad was in between cockpit kit runs. I was wanting to keep the build going... so my second choice that was available immediately (price and availability both being considered) - that choice was Mick Reeves. I contacted several other cockpit makers but many did not seem to respond to emails. Anyhow, MR was easy to deal with. I ordered the gun sight from MR too but it was accidentally left out of my box. At the end of the day extra shipping was too much for one item so that gave me the chance to ask Chad V about his gun sight. He had a spare on ready to ship - that was good fortune and it was a chance to use his good work too - so I'll get that installed soon. I've been happy with the cockpit add on but I would not say I have done a complete job in spite of the very good add on kits that I used - it's stand off scale really and I could have gone much farther. I'd like to go all out and do a proper cockpit some day on a big 1/4 scale Mick Reeves build with pro skin and Sierra gear, etc - some day. For now, I'll have an everyday flyable Spit that looks good enough in the pitts to pass as a Spit

TerryW

Eddie P. you have a pilot dressed in blue pictured here. Where did you get him and how much is he ? I need one for my ESM Hurricane
Terry W.

Eddie P

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Sorry my pilot is the one in the cloth uniform and yellow life jacket in previous post. The blue pilot in the seat is MR's stock photo - that was included just to show the seat as I already installed the seat in my plane, and did not have a stand alone photo of it. I believe MR might have data on those pilots, they are moulded plastic and painted, fixed position. Mine is movable with a servo on the head for rotation.

TerryW

OK, thanks for the info !!