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[John Jones]

#82394

hahahahahahaha..     I get sucked into RC stuff easy…..  😎

There’s rc racing in Rifle Sunday..  I’m thinking about going…

All work and no play makes JJ a dull boy🤣
Keeping a lid on it😎
Attitude is everything 🤔

[John Jones]

#82939

Trying to stay away from the hobby shop and concentrate on busses!!!’👎🏻👎🏻👎🏻👎🏻👎🏻👎🏻👎🏻👎🏻👎🏻👎🏻

All work and no play makes JJ a dull boy🤣
Keeping a lid on it😎
Attitude is everything 🤔

[John Jones]

#82949

I bet some drift car action would be fun in here!!!!!!!’  Or maybe some 12th scale LTO😎😎😎 sprint cars 🤫🤫🤫🤫🤫🤫

Gonna be cold sooner than later. Gonna want something to do inside 🤫🤫🤫🤫😎😎😎.  Heated 🤫🤫🤫🤫🤫🤫🤫

All work and no play makes JJ a dull boy🤣
Keeping a lid on it😎
Attitude is everything 🤔

[Newbold]

#83049

That’s a good idea. I could see getting in on a little sprint car. I have been building wings for my Hayabusa hill climb car lately and reading lots of stuff on sprint car wings. Fascinating and stylish looking accessories  that really don’t do much until you get going fast. I bet a little sprint car would be fun to tweak and dial settings with…    ….And I too am trying to keep myself away from the hobby store like a recovered crack head would avoid a score 🙂

[BBWB]

#83441

Just some random pictures of an R/C bi-plane I’ve been building for about a year. It’s a DeHavillind DH82 Tiger Moth. Will have a 114″ wing span. Engine is a 60cc four stroke gasser in-line twin.

I'm at the age where "fuck off", "fuck you", and "fuck it" answer most questions.

[Rustabus]

#83481

Maybe you should go bigger next time????😂😂😂😂😂👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

[John Jones]

#83483

Badd ass!!!   Ben you are a master at your work!!!😎👍🏻💯

All work and no play makes JJ a dull boy🤣
Keeping a lid on it😎
Attitude is everything 🤔

[BBWB]

#83488

Rustabus wrote:

Maybe you should go bigger next time????

Thanks Rusty. I’m about a medium in the size spectrum of R/C. My current limitation is storage and transport. Moving these bigger planes around my tiny shop and to the field is almost a pain. The reward is better visibility in the air.

John Jones wrote:

Badd ass!!! Ben you are a master at your work!!!

Thanks John. Means a lot. But being a jack-of-all-trades, and MASTER-of-none, is a more appt description. 🙂 🙂

Here is a link to my build thread on RCScalebuilder.com.  https://www.rcscalebuilder.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=33705&PN=1

I'm at the age where "fuck off", "fuck you", and "fuck it" answer most questions.

[MikeK]

#83491

Do you skin some of the surfaces in aluminum and if so, what gauge?  The canopy frame looks awesome as well as the rest of the plane.  Really nice, detailed work!

[Vwfool]

#83505

Damn Ben!  That looks sweet

[BBWB]

#83507

MikeK wrote:

Do you skin some of the surfaces in aluminum and if so, what gauge? The canopy frame looks awesome as well as the rest of the plane. Really nice, detailed work!

Short answer, yes. The pics below are my 1/3 scale J3 Cub. I basically use thicker aluminum for cowls. I’ve been playing around trying to hammer and shape it. For that stuff I use .025″ or thinner.

The two top pics are roof flashing that I used on the forward fuse. The last two are engine cowl pieces made with the .025″ thick. With both types, I used a sharpe and drew squigglies, then heated the aluminum until the lines disappear to anneal it.

There is a guy in South Florida I think that I see on the R/C we sites, that is building all aluminum planes. His stuff looks awesome. I’ll see if I can find some pics of his stuff.

I'm at the age where "fuck off", "fuck you", and "fuck it" answer most questions.

[John Jones]

#83575

I almost gave in and went to the hobby shop yesterday🤫🤫🤫.  I talked myself into blasting 🙄

 

All work and no play makes JJ a dull boy🤣
Keeping a lid on it😎
Attitude is everything 🤔

[MikeK]

#83579

That’s really neat!  I bet some of those domed shapes could be press formed into a rubber mat.  It would be fun making those little shapes.  Harbor Freight made a 1″ wheeling machine a while back, not sure it it’s still available, but I’m sure that would really come in handy for some of the more subtle shapes.

[BBWB]

#83587

^^^ Yea, I’d love to find a tiny english wheel.

I'm at the age where "fuck off", "fuck you", and "fuck it" answer most questions.

[John Jones]

#83728

I would bet you could make something ..  given the time and parts…  theirs gotta be an RC size english wheel out there… 😎

All work and no play makes JJ a dull boy🤣
Keeping a lid on it😎
Attitude is everything 🤔

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