First Guillows kit you ever built

[Tim]

First off, Calvin isnt the only 14 year old building RC Aircraft. I too, 14 yrs old, am trying to get started in RC aircraft. So your not alone Calvin.

I just purchased my first my first Guillows and first balsa aircraft kits. I bought the Cessna 170 and the Stearman. Now, i have a feeling that i just wasted 40 bucks because by first glance, I assumed that the Cessna 170 and the Stearman had fully functional ailerons, elevator, and rudder. But the more i look, i see rubber engines and free flight. I also thought that by gas engine they meant Nitro/Glowplug. But the more i look the only engines i see are COX engines...which you cant control the throtle input....which i dont like. So some one please correct me on my assumptions.

Please help!!!! (My planes have been purchased but not delivered).

[supercruiser]

The Guillow 170 does not have provision for movable control surfaces. The Stearman might have an option for control surfaces, since it's such a large kit. The Corsair and others in that series can be made R/C. Most of the kits that say: gas engine, use a Cox .010 or .020, -- no throttle. You said this was your first Guillow kits. If it's your first balsa model kit, I wouldn't try to make it an R/C airplane. They are difficult to convert to r/c. it has been done many times but, it takes some experience and patience. If these are your first kits, ever, then I would go ahead and build the 170. You will learn so much. Build it as rubber band powered. I would not put any type of gas engine on the smaller kits. I know you probably think rubber band powered is sissy stuff. Like I said, you will learn so much.
By the way, I am trying to build a Guillow Corsair for R/C. with a Norvel .051 throttable engine. I have been building models off and on for 30 years and work on piper and cessna aircraft for 20 years, now. Still, It's a little difficult to make the conversion. Whatever you do, don't give up.

[javisegura]

My first Guillow is not finished yet... I'm trying make it fly whit a .075 Norvel Glow Engine. I hope it will take off and fly like a bird and don't fall down like a brick.

You can see 40 pics here...

http://s52.photobucket.com/albums/g11/javisegura/SBD%20Dauntless/?action=view&current=photo9.jpg&refPage=&imgAnch=imgAnch1

[javisegura]

My first Guillow is not finished yet... I'm trying make fly a SBS Dauntless Guillows using a .075 Norvel Glow Engine. I hope it will take off and fly like a bird and don't fall down like a brick.

You can see 40 pics here...

http://s52.photobucket.com/albums/g11/javisegura/SBD%20Dauntless/?action=view&current=photo9.jpg&refPage=&imgAnch=imgAnch1

[Kugobu]

Good news

[Mikoyan]

I'm not yet done my first ever guillow kit, which is the Nakajima A6M2-N Rufe. So far its a pretty good kit.

[freefall]

My first was a Guillows lancer flew great after some trimming although it never did turn right under power.I had enjoyed the Guillows line through my childhood<

[lenard]

Here is my first Guillow model, the flyboy. It was a nice easy model to build and looks like it will be a good flyer.



Len.

[Xanadu]

Excellent first time! Hope it flys as well as it looks........

[kittyfritters]

The first Guillow's kit I ever built was an Aeronca Champion back in the early 1950's. It was not like the current kits, which appeared in the late '50's and early 60's but was standard box fuselage construction and quite light. As I recall, there were three plastic parts, the prop, the front of the engine cowl and the celluloid for the canopy. It cost 50 cents.

[Arlo DiPasquale]

my first kit was the javelin. i built it 4 years ago, when i was 10 years old.

[thymekiller]

P-51 mustang. 500 series. Never did cover it.

thymekiller

[Greyhound]

My first airplane was a 900 series Skyraider. I built it for a school project.

[Socketassault]

Wright Flyer when I was 12.

[SteveM]

Hey, what a great thread to revive!

My first was a 500 series BF-109 when I was about 14, then about half way through the Rufe before I became frustrated with constantly repairing holes made by my fingers and I gave up. That is why I built the 500 series BF-109 as my first plane when I decided to try again starting just last fall. No plans to build the Rufe again though, the Japanese planes don't catch my eye like the German and Allied planes do.