Member postings for Dwain Dibley.

I have one Geoff, It's great. Easy to set up and has loads of good features. I bought it after I dropped my JR DX9, mainly due to the price. no complaints so far.

Got it controlling my Cessna.

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Nice work Chris, as usual......

Weather here is torrential rain, then more rain......................Cycling to work is very interesting............LOL

Cheers.

D.D.

Cosmic Stuff Chris, nice to see it progressing young Man !!

Got to be 30 deg here tomorrow, so a hot commute on the bicycle for Dwain.

D.D.

Well done Uncle Brian.......

A splendid looking beast Cymaz...............the plane is impressive too.......................

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Complete..

Well done Chris, Glad it has all worked out Mate.

D.D.

Todays progress, I didn't start till the after noon, so I reckon two good days would see this model finished.

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Battery/radio/motor hatch.

Under the mains.

Under the tail.

Better shot of the main fairings.

The rudder hinges are a big sticker, works great.

Just have to install the control rods.

Thanks McG.

I had another fit/seizure on sat AM, so spent the night in hospital with pretty nurses sticking needles in my arms. They can never get blood out of me, so I have holes in both arms and hands and loads of bruises....LOL

I have been busy today tho, just waiting for pics to load.

D.D.

Can you add sheet material to the T/E stock Chris ??

D.D.

I have been looking at MicroAces Depron model kits for a while now, but there was an issue with supplies of the micro Rx, ESC, and servo blocks.

That is now resolved , thanks to Jon, the main man, and I promptly ordered the Scrappee Trainer, along with the Spekky gear.

Good as Gold, he got all the orders out before he went on his hols....Got mine yesterday, and got stuck in today.

This will be a totally new way of doing things for me....the only thing I ever built in depron, was a shuttle from startrek based round a co-ax medivac heli.

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The bare bones, cut from the laser cut sheet of 2 mm Depron.

The U/C legs are cut from plastic and help strengthen things up.

Here you can see the instruction manual, and the wings on their sprues, and some laminated plastic depron parts ready for installation.

These kits are kind of a cross between card and airfix (Jons words)

Dry Fit.

A lot of the work involves scoring and bending the parts ready for gluing, the scheme is pre-printed, as you can see.

All the scoring is done on the back of the parts, with the back edge of a scalpel...........VERY carefully.

The skeleton of a plane with a tail wheel fitted.

The skin glued to the bottom of the skelly.

Here you can see the White, oblong locating tab that lines up the whole thing.

These things are very well thought out.

The fuselage almost complete, I got to this stage in about 3 hours total.

All held together with POR glue. Apply the glue, leave for a bit and then.... BOOM !! it's on. If you need a bit of wiggle room, then join the parts straight away and slide the bits in/on/about for a good fit.

The kit comes with a RX,ESC, servo brick, a brushed motor, a prop and prop adaptor, all the rods and gear, wheels etc, needed to complete the plane.

So far so good, I'll probably get a bit more done tomoz, as the weather is bad, and I won't be able to get out on my bike like I did today.

D.D.

It's looking a treat Jim, one could even say "Cosmic"......

D.D.

Have you put yer tool in it yet ?????

D.D.

You need to lie down in a darkened room and get some medication.................

However,..............I understand your "disease", Cos I have it too...........

Have you heard the expression " anorakism", you can probably Google it.

Mine is often zipped right up with the hood on.... LOL

Stay Cosmic Man ....

D.D.

Sweet !!

My first ever flights were with a Veron Impala off a local slope.(Walton Hill) in the west Mids. Good memories.

D.D.

If you look closely there is an Irvine 46 in the tree hugger, my mate swears by them. Properly set up they go every time on the first turn, and drag the model round like a rag doll.

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I have also taught people to fly with a Boomerang, both on buddy leads and in the grab the tranny mode.....

The boomerang will do anything you want. best on a .46. I have built in excess of 20 for people, and they are easy to repair. They will also fly extremely plump and overweight.

I passed my A on one , passed it on to a mate and he passed with it also. called it Tree hugger, as it ended up in one....

we got it back and wrote tree hugger on the wing, it's still flying

I still have one built from a kit, electric...Of course......

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Here she is before the tree incident.

It's the neatest "bodge" I have ever seen Matey...

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Beautiful Bart. Absolutely wonderful, well done mate.

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Well done John, Glad to hear all went well despite the zorst moment.

I have an NGH 10cc engine, I had trouble setting the throttle up to get a good usable range on the throttle stick. How did you get on ?

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Hi, I made mine from layered tissue applied with glue stick. this was my very first attempt so don't judge me too harshly.. The right hand one was placed incorrectly and I had to move it, hence the imperfection. I have not doped over the "decal". hth.

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