Hi Quinoa, I just finished building a rubber-powered free flight model from a kit that's called a Guillow's Lancer:

http://www.guillow.com/GuillowDetail...=22&FamilyId=1

I have a couple of larger RC kits that I'm getting ready to build, and I bought this little free-flight kit to practice before starting in on a larger, more expensive project.

I built the Guillow's Lancer on a coffee table in my living room. I purchased a 2' x 4' sheet of cork at an office supply store and rolled it out flat on top of the coffee table for my building surface. I set the plans on top of the cork and then I covered the plans with wax paper to protect the plans.

The Guillow's Lancer is a die-cut kit that requires a bit of cutting with a hobby knife to work the parts free from the balsa sheets. The wing, tail, and fuselage are built directly on top of the plans, and I used t-pins to hold the wood pieces down in place while I glued them together with thin CA glue. The t-pins and the wax paper are both resistent to sticking to CA glue, so once the parts were dried together, I could simply unpin them and then peel them gently from the wax paper.

This kind of kit is pretty easy to make with just an xacto knife and/or single edged razor blade, some thin CA glue, some fine grit sand paper, and a pile of t-pins. I applied the tissue paper covering using plain white school glue thinned with a bit of warm water. I originally tried applying the tissue paper with Midwest Aero Gloss dope as per Guillow's instructions, but the dope dried very quickly and the tissue didn't end up sticking down as well.

This type of kit was a really good introduction to building from plans. I feel much better prepared to dive into my larger projects now that I've worked through this little free flight kit and ended up with a final product that looks like an airplane.