Hello and 500 series Hurricane build

[Phugoid]

Hi,

I've joined this forum since I have become a fan of the models of Scigs on the SFA website, and having had a go with one of the kits myself.

I built Stick and tissue models as a kid, mainly from a British manfacturer called Keil Kraft which no longer exists, these Guillows kits are very similar in concept being as they are cheap and cheerful fun as agaisnt the serious modeling that is de rigueur on the SFA site.

I built the 500 series hurricane, and aside from some of the features that make these kits so obviously cheap and accessible the only major major gripe I have is the weight of the balsa, which in reality for most builders precludes the beasts from ever taking off.

The first attempt with the kit wood came in at around 14g for the wooden frames alone, even with scaloping the frameworks to remove excessive weight. I rebuilt the frames with higher than medium stuff of the grade that I have found die cut in other kits and the weight was 8.5g. This is not super light and delicate stuff, but does give you a fighting chance of getting some flights in. It is just simply fustrating to have all of those neatly die cut parts and not be able to use them.......

Indeed when I finished the model, it was light enough to fly, right up a tree from where It disappeared overnight before I could get my friends fishing rod to get it out! doh!

I think that this will attach a picture of the airframes, which is the last one I took of the whole thing during the build (I didn't intend to loose it as quick as I did)

I'll probably buy another one of the 500 series kits now, perhaps I'll get lucky with the wood.

Andrew

[img]C:\users\andrew\desktop\mocked%20up%20frame3[/img]

[Phugoid]

This might put a picture in I hope!

[Phugoid]

Nope, that didn't work either any ideas anyone?

Andrew

[Mfezi]

Hi Phugoid

I think for an image link to work, the link has to point directly to the .jpg file, rather than just the relevant album. I think the one below will work for your example:



What I entered was:

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[img]http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4042/4293286115_31f9607eca_o.jpg[/img]

I hope that works - I am also not always sure how all the tags work...

[Phugoid]

Thanks Mfezi,

Andrew