FOX COMPOSITES SABRE F86 for Wren 44 build thread
 

Next Project!

Decided to get my self a Fox Composites Sabre, the Hawk is so good.

Kit arrived, really well packed, professionally done, and of course full fuselage and wing bags included! Great value.;)

When you open the box the quality just leaps out….live hinges included, flaps all retract bays and mount…etc..etc.
The quality of the moulding is superb.
A really nice feature is the two wing tanks beautifully made and just slide into the wings (see pics). This keeps the fuselage clear.
I shall run a build thread as normal and update stage by stage, I will not be able to start for a couple of weeks due to work load, but I am really looking forward to doing this one.:D

Paul

Pic 1: box well packed.
Pic 2: contents, note the wing bags
Pic 3: more of the same
Pic 4: Wing tank, nice fit in the wing

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Pic 5: Quality wing moulding
Pic 6: Live hinging
Pic 7: Bottom view of wing, servo boxes cut.

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Pic 8: UC mounts ready for action.
Pic 9: Sharp quality moulding on the fuselage.
Pic 10: More of the same.
Pic 11: Top view of Fuselage.

More to follow as soon as i can get started.

Paul

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Paul,

Looks good but any reason why molded all yellow?? Kinda forces you to paint the whole thing? At least if it were silver you could whack a few decals or stripes of paint and cover off 90% of schemes out there?!?!?

Rgds,
Mark

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Paul

I'll add this model to list for Bickley then shall I. What else you bringing??

Gregg

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Yellow is an option, silver and white also.
I wanted yellow to do a sport colour scheme but I understand that there was a yellow F86 full size!
Yes I shall bring this to Bickley, also the Hawk, Jetmach 44 and L39.

Roll on summer:D

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Fox Comp have just put the instructions for the Sabre on the web site...nice [8D]
[link=http://fox-composites.com/instructions.html]Here[/link]

Paul

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Paul,

Keep it coming. We are interested and there are no questions because you cover it all.
A good read.

Trevor Skedge

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Thanks Trev ;)

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here is the scale version yellow scheme.

http://www.clubhyper.com/reference/sabre5jh_1.htm

gordon dickens' pilot/builder ... also another yellow scheme

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Hey Pat how you doing?

Thanks for the Pics, maybe i will do it scale after all.....[8D]:eek:

Paul

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doing well paul considering. just had a baby last week and am recovering from an eye incident so my boomer has been sitting collecting dust. really considering one of these little f-86's. do you know if the viggen is under consideration by Jim?

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Pat

Sorry to hear that, please get well soon.

I am not aware of any work on the Viggen.

But the Hawk and the Sabre are fantastic ;)[8D]

Paul

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Hi all.
Well, finally got going on the Sabre.
Will be 'upping' some build info very soon [8D]

Paul

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paul, how much is this kit? Looks very nice.

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I think the kit is around £500.00, give Motors and Rotors a call.

OK
First up.
I will not be doing such a detailed build on this one, mainly because the instruction (link provided above) are so good.

But there are parts that i will do my own way and these may be an option for others.

The first thing to work on is the stabilisers (tailplane to us Brits!)

The instructions show 2 JR flat servos and uses 1 channel for each servo.
The RX I am using is only 8 channel so I will Y the two together.
This means that both servos must be installed identically and also the same way round.

Pic 1 Shows the mount I have made to hold the servo.
Pic 2 Servo test fitted in mount.
Pic 3 Test fitting servo.


Paul

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The instructions were followed with regard to the control arm, this involved a 3 mm tap.
Pic 4, 5, 6 show the servos fitted and linkages made. On 6 you can see that the servos sit differently in both side as they are the same way round.

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The covers hinged back and done!

I have started on the rudder servo install.
Pics t'mora.

[8D]

Paul

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Rudder servo install is a piece of cake.
The mount is already in the fin, so it is just screw in, cut a slot and fit the control horn (3mm tap again).

Pic 1 Shows servo in place.
Pic 2 Fin with slot and loose fit location rod.
Pic 3 Loose lit fin to Tailplane assembly.
[8D]

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Pic 1: Another view of tailplane and fin assy.
Pic 2: Fin and tailplane assy loose fit on fus.
Pic 3: Another view, same.
Well, all servos in at the back end!

Now for the wings! [X(]

Paul

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Hi Paul

I had heard that Jim was no longer making his models. Do you know what the current situation is?

John

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Looks good Paul.

Are there any websites with prices ?
All the shops on the FOX homepage links to, dont seem to have the products and prices on their sites.

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John
No this is not true, there was a problem but all looks OK now.

Paul

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SJN
No sorry i do not know, the web site is a little out of date!
Dave has them in at Motors and Rotors as far as i know.

Yes, it is a nice quality kit.
Should go together very well,and is perfect for a Wren 44.

Paul

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Paul

Thanks for the info. I picked it up from RCGroups and they must have had out of date info. His models are really good EDF propositions and it would have been a real loss if they were not available.

John