Well,

despite trying to not over extend myself build wise (along with their associated threads), here Iam starting a new one. Idecided Ineeded a light build fix to break up the labour of building full scale Tipo's. My idea was: "I'll just cut some fuse sides and after I'm done sheeting the cores, she'll come together in a few days..." Is that naive or what!?

But... so it was that the build of the Picorare (40" span Tiporare) begun. Ihave to admit that I sheeted the wings a week ago Monday so all in all, it's looking like this may be the fastest pattern build I've ever gotten my head around. Isuppose mulling over the plans for a year (or has it been decades?) does help.

Getting to the meat and potatoes. Ihad cut cores for the Pico some time ago and as mentioned elsewhere, Ipicked up some nice 1/32" sheeting last week and went ahead and skinned the wings and stabs. While things were setting up, I built myself a short kit for the fuse and fin and built up the rudder. So far, everything is being built per plans - at least as close to them as I'm able to. The wing panels and stab are finished with wing joining and mounting to be done. With the goal of making this Pico as simple as possible but no simpler, the model has no landing gear and will be electric powered (~300W). Some details on the power system and radio are mentioned in the Scaled Tipo Plans thread begun some time ago. More on that to come.

Tonight, I assembled the fuse and built up the sheeting sections around the nose and installed the fuse top. Once all was lined up and ready to be bonded, Ihit the joints with CA and proceeded to make serious clouds of dust! As I still don't have the motor (2 weeks ETA), Ifigured out how to build the fuse leaving the FWout. When the motor arrives, I'll backplate it on to the nose ring (1/32" shim) figure out what length standoffs Ineed and bolt the motor to the FW. WIth that lined up accoding to right and down thrust (built into the fuse), I'll then glue the FW in place at the angle it needs to reside.

In a matter of a few hours, she actually is starting to look like a Tipo!!

More sanding still to come...always.

Hope you pattern aficionados enjoy the thread!

David.

P.S. Isn't the shot through the nose ring cool!?