ORIGINAL: j301

Hello all, I recently came into possession of a 1/5th scale Bert Baker 80" P 47 and need some advice. I have kit built from stick kits/monokote covering in the past (way past) and usually stick to building arfs, or "barfs" (cmp, etc.). With it I received all the wood, plans, instructions (hand typed! And BRIEF!), all the fiberglass parts, canopy, and some great looking retracts. I actually took it in as part of a trade thinking I might one day get around to it, but the more I look at this thing, the more I realize this is a build from a seemingly bygone era, or specialty market (like the pro's use) that I don't think Ive ever even seen the workings/build steps to. I know it likely sounds easy to a lot of builders on here, but I can only say is that you would think a "simple car" like an early 1900's Reo - a box and engine - would be easy to drive, until you sit in it and look at all the levers, cranks, knobs, etc., and think "what the heck does that goofy Frankenstein knob on the steering wheel do?" (I know timing/spark, don't want side track here!)
So here is my dilemma; do I try and sell this and guess at the worth? Do I try and fumble my way through a build? Is there any forums, posts, boards, anywhere that might shed some light on some of the workings of this type of build? The fuse I can figure out, its the wings - positive and negative molds-sheeting-foam everywhere.... Balsa I understand, this is all foreign to me though.
Any insight/suggestions/opinions - any shove in a direction would be greatly appreciated!

ORIGINAL: j301

Thanks for the info and the link Dash, I will definitely be studying that over the next couple of days. Scrolling through the pics, did yours come with the wings sheeted like that? There is no sheeting to be found in my box, only foam wing 1/4rs with what I would call negative molds (bottom "mold" concave, bottom wing 1/4 convex, top wing 1/4 convex, then top "mold" concave making a "square" with the wing in the middle if that makes any sense?) The retracts that were "made for it" are also a bit odd, the cylinder is facing away from the strut, 180 degrees from the "norm", would this setup even fit in a wing? Looking at your it would seem they would poke out the leading edge?
Anyway, thanks again and Im sure I'll have more q's after the read!

ORIGINAL: tailskid

j301, what did you use to 'solder' those exhaust extensions?

ORIGINAL: tailskid

I have a NIB Yellow P-47 waiting for some attention I was planning on using an Evolution 45 up front. There is an excellent build forum on RCScale website. Let me know if you need a link.

Jerry

ORIGINAL: tailskid

Here is the link to RCU's 'Blue Book'

http://www.rcuniverse.com/product_gu...cfm?kit_id=568

ORIGINAL: BobH

The wings aren't that difficult to do. The process involves: Gluing the cores together. The servo pockets are located and cut into the wing. See if someone has a Yellow wing that they could photograph the bottom side showing the location of the servo pockets. The wing skins are glued together. Once this is done you can use sorghum glue to attach the wing skins to the foam. This is a contact cement that works well. There are other adhesives that work too.. you can google or search on RCU. To keep the wings from twisting while the skins are setting up you place the wings with the skins on into the foam cradles you received them in and weight them with phone books etc..

Mark your cores so you know which core came from which cradle. This is really helpful to keep your wings and cores from getting mixed up.

Once the wings are sheeted you can attach the leading and trailing edges and the wing tips. Your flaps and ailerons are wood so that's pretty basic stuff.