I decided to do it, build my first kit, or maybe. A buddy of mine came across a lady who's husband recently passed away that had a room with a few kits in it. One of them is an Ikon N'West Super Cub. The receipt in the box is dated March 30, 1985. Wingspan is 107". It appears everything is in the box, but honestly, I wouldn't know if something is missing. I've been in this hobby for 8+ years and I've built probably 20+ ARF's, but oh my, this is the first kit. [X(]

Have lots of questions if I may.

Where and how do I get started? The instructions say "build the laminate tips first so you will have them done when needed". What are laminate tips?????

What kind of glue do I use?

What about wheels? 1/4 scale I'm assuming?

Engine. I have a Saito 180 ready to go, will it be enough or too much?

Hardware, appears it has a bag of some stuff, but looks like I'll need to get control rods, etc.

Servos? Will standards be enough? The plane will have flaps as well.

Can I do this?

Ginger or Mary Ann?

White, wheat or rye?

Thanks!!

Laminating is layering wood together. Such as ply wood.
There should be pieces of wood, that you need to glue together for the wing tips.

You can use CA or wood glue. I recommend using medium CA for beginer. It'll give you more time.

There's variouse types of control rod you can use.
You can use wood dowls.

For a model that size. I'd go with stronger servo

Maybe start with an easier kit, so you won't mess up this one.
Just get a cheap kit. A piont .15 size such as House of balsa or a glider kits as a static display model

Maybe a .40 TH kit or may kits such as the 4*, Tiger..etc, To give you experince. You can use
standard size EQ to fly it.

All i know is...the first model i built was a cub...it looked good, but I don't think it was flight worthy

If you were an experince builder, if you didn't want to mess with laminating the wing tips...You can just use balsa sheets,
cut it to the tip's shape. Then drill liten holds. Besides, it'll be stronger incase the tips hits ground sometimes.

One of the problems today is you buy an ARF and Assemble it, there is no building involved at all. I try to always have my students Build A kit so they know how to repair there ARFs when they get A bit broken, Keeps them from showing up in my shop too, I hate repairs.
The tips they are talking about are probably the wing and stab tips.

If you post your questions over in the Kit Building forum you will probably be much better off then in the Beginners Forum. Ikon N West are outstanding kits, A Cub isn't A real hard build but if you have never done it before your going to need help or run into A lot of problems, like figuring out what they are talking about. Don't let anyone talk you out of that kit either!! Unless it's me!!!

I see.

I just had the plans laying on the kitchen table, wow they're huge. Anyway, a couple of my questions were answered just by looking at the plans. The CG is 4-5" behind the LE and the recommended mains are 4" and the tailwheel is 1.5".

Geezzz, this is one huge bird. According to the plans, the wingspan is 108".

http://www.ikonnwst.com/ here is a link to their website, maybe you can get some additional info there.

For that model they are recommending a 120 4-Cycle or a G-38

Great intel, thanks a bunch for the link. I thought they didn't exist anymore. [X(] Wow, seems like my choice of engine Saito 180 is way too much.

First, relax. Remember this is fun. Second, find a good FLAT building surface. Third, lay the plans out on the building surface and let them become accustom to the environment (minimum of 48 hours) .

Read, read and read all of the instructions. This is so that You will have a understanding of the building sequence. At the front of the instructions You will find information on many of the good questions that You have raised.

Return as needed to RCM to get questions answered.

Cruz has asked this question over in the kit building forum, so I'm going to go ahead and close this thread.

Ken