Well....no wonder the shipping cost is a bit high. It comes in 3 packets from 3 different suppliers......Good old fashion Brittish efficiency

The plans pack, and VAC pack arrived.
3 fullsize plan sheets, look great.
The VAC pack has a thick ABS plastic nose cone, and a clear canopy, and a very thin white abs canopy......dont know if it is just a protection part, or to be used as a canopy frame. The frame is molded into the clear canopy allready

The wood pack and CNC cut parts should be on their way later this week.

really nice a scale boomerang

Wood pack, and CNC pack showed up today.
I have ordered glue and a few new tools to build this......its probably been 15 years since I built a kit

Im not going to put a deadline on this build, but somehow there is a vampire hidden in that pile of wood, and I hope it will emerge this summer

Think the white ABS canopy shape is to make the frame from to fit over the clear mounding..... remember reading this somewhere.

marcs

Yes, it has to be the cover strip between the windshield, and the rear canopy.....

Are you sure theres just one vampire in that wood kit?
looking forward to the build,now that ive retired its making my fingers itchy for balsa again

brian

Nice to see traditional materials and construction still has a place amongst modern technology. Thanks for sharing this build!

That Supermarine scimitar in the second video sure looks nice!


I've got a 1/5 scale Sterner vamp that I started several years ago.....that CNC pack might be the way to go! My father in law flew these after the war, and even survived a mid air collision... So there is some family history there, and I would really like to get one built.

mines getting there,hard bit of the fus is done.its a bugger to bend the 1/4 balsa fus sides at F1 but dampening and a lot of clamps and patience got it done.will post some pics tommorow.

Sound good Budjet, looking forward to the pictures.
I just glued the fuselage side parts together.

Have you bought the wing joiner tubes for yours ?
If so, where did you get them ?

few pics.... dry fitting the formers to see how it goes together. The framework on top will be the removable canopy fhwn sheeted and cut out.

looks like a vampire allready

Buy some ammonia soak it for about 15mins.

Or

Method I have used before, was to cut a series of slits on the inside about 3/4 of the way through the wood. I made up a little saw table for my dremel so the saw blade was just sticking through about 4mm for the 1/4" (6mm) wood.

few pics.hatches cut now need to plank bottom of fus.nothing like a good planking session

looking good......planking is up next


Building is great.....I had forgotten how much satisfaction you get when creating something from allmost nothing

Got the top sheeting on today.

I reached the limits of my short blade exacto knife, and sand paper.....I need the razor plane that is on the way in the mail, so I can get the job done right.

So far, it seems very well designed. It is built like a tank, and maybe a little on the heavy side, but at least it will be very strong

slowly getting there..

Slowly? I'd say test flight next month at this rate!

last for today...

looking very good Sonnich. [sm=thumbup.gif]

Thanks....I hope it turns out well.......only one guy to blame if it goes wrong

do you do anything else but build,,,,thought i was doing well fus nearly finnished,just doing a fill and rub down session...............

hehe....I still need to glue in the middle 9mm planking on the lower fuselage, then I will cut out the hatches.
Thought i`d give the wing a go just for a change

A notch on wing rib W7 traling edge is cut in the wrong place, but no big deal to cut a new one just infront of it.

The top view of the wing says to pack up the rear wing spar with an 8mm shim.
But a side view says 16mm, and that one is correct.

Also, if you have the wing joiner tubes when you assemble the wing, remember to slide in the small aft 1/2 " outer paper tube before gluing the ribs, as it cant be inserted after assembly.

My joiner tubes are in the mail, and will be here next week. Im going to make a hole in the first W1 rib so I can insert it through there......but it is not according to plan

It was going well....