direct connection kits
 

how do these kits build?

thanks

dan

RE: direct connection kits
 

iHave two of their kits the hawker sea fury and the ultimate kaos. The weird part is i've had them for years and never opened up the kaos kit. I have opened up the box for the sea fury and looked at the parts,plans and the instructions. It looks like a pretty well thought out kit. so it should go together good. As far as i know about direct connection is they are no longer making kits.

Dennis

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I have built the Sea Fury and Kaos and bashed another Sea Fury kit into a twin. No real problems that I recall other than jigging the eliptical wing. All have flown very well. (Flew the Sea Fury today and twin last week end)

RE: direct connection kits
 

I have built 2 DC kits, the Tsunami and the F-20 tiger shark. Both kits built pretty easily and light but i suggest you have some building experience prior to building one. There was some carving for the nose sections, nothing a razor plane couldn't handle pretty quick. Direct connection copyrights were bought out and a company named Juno now produces 3 of the kits: f-20, FA-18 hornet and the Tsunami. A 60 sized Tsunami is due to be released this summer, which i am looking forward to.

http://www.junorc.com/index.html

RE: direct connection kits
 

I had a friend build one - he told me they give you a pile of wood and a picture of the completed airplane and tell you to "make the wood look like the airplane". I don't know if it's true or not, I tend to believe it's not quite that bad, but I'll find out when I start my DC F/A-18.

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<<laughing>> It is not that bad. Like i said they do assume you have some building experience and take you through step by step but not explain everything in full detail. Here is a link of one of the f-18 DC kits
http://www.rcuniverse.com/forum/m_25...tm.htm#2516066
My F-20 pic is in my gallery.

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Gutmark,

I can only say that what your friend told you is pure rubbish. I've built over 40 kits in my life, and I have never had one kit that bad. Even the worst ones from the 80s weren't that bad. However, to built kits, you have to know how to actually build........lol. I find that most modelers today are fliers, not builders and modelers. It's no wonder that the building skills have been lost. I can assure you the new Juno kits are very good. The Hornet is the most challenging of the three. If you cannot build a intermediate level kit, then you don't need to attempt the Hornet. The Tsunami is pretty easy, very straight forward. If you have a razor plane, sandpaper, and 10 minutes..............there's no problem. Hope this helps.

Derek Staha
Juno R/C

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Like I said, he may have been exaggerating a little bit. I never saw the airplane he built. However, he did give me a DC F/A-18 kit for building him a GP F-4 Phantom so maybe his skills weren't up to the task. Anyway, the DC kit is next in line after I finish my TF gold edition Corsair.

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I have built both the F-20 and F-18 models and are still flying them. As was stated they do require some experience in building. The fuselage on both is built in the shape of a stop sign and you add the top and bottom and side sheeting which overlaps the space for them, now trim and sand the four open surfaces flush and then add the last pieces of siding. You end up with a real strong fuselage. The F-18 builds the same way except you build two fuselages and tie them together. There is a lot of sanding, but it sure looks good when you are finished.

Both planes fly like they are on a rail. The F-20 is not for the beginner pilot as it is fast. The F-18 looks like the real one in the air and comes in nose high for landings. I call them my poor mans jets. I have a OS .46 in the F-20 and a Rossi .90 with pipe on the F-18. Both planes are about 6 years old and still going.

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I built the Tsunami about 8 years ago. It built up very nicely. It was designed to be light, so some of the sheeting was light 1/16 where normally one would expect 3/32. But it was not a problem, and resulted in a beautiful airplane with a very light wing loading that was one of the best flying sport planes I have ever had the pleasure to own!