Tony B's replica

It's looking superb Tony

Looks fabulous Tony

Thank you gents, much apreciated.

Tony B

I have been playing with ailerons.

i hinged my differently to every one else, but they seem to work.

one outer panel ready to have the servo fitted, will finish the other one tomorrow...i hope.

Tony B

Upper wings now fit.

hopefully tomorrow i can fit the lower wing and take a look at the struts.

Tony B

well i chucked it all together this afternoon and started on the wing struts.

bit of a fiddly job, but having a one piece lower wing helped no end.

one side bodged up and now ready to be finished off.

will do the other side tomorrow, just got to get both sides the same. eeeep.

we plod on slowly.

aiming for an end of march finish... i hope

Tony B

Brilliant stuff Tony so maiden in April then

"N" struts made, just need to pin the joints and sand to profile.

I can now get the aileron servo's fitted and working, well i would but my spectrum rx is not working.

i will use an orange one to set everything up while i save for a new spectrum rx.

Tony B

That looks fantastic Tony really well done

So many novel ways of doing stuff. what are the N struts made from?

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really does look tremendous fella... more power to your elbow.. I enjoy watching your builds immensely. Thankyou

nice work Tony-looking good..... ..

ken anderson...ne...1...looking good dept.

You have done a great job Tony, a really impressive scale model. Completed weight will be very interesting, also if you have to make any adjustments for c of g. I have deliberately avoided Depron on this build, so we can make some finished weight comparisons. There is a lot of Depron in the Chipmunk, so at some point that will be interesting as well. The 100% switch from balsa to Depron on the Super Marauder reduced finished weight by about 1/3rd.

"N" struts are made from balsa, using the brass supplied.

Even though i have used a fair amount of Depron in my build, i expect the weight will be about the same as the all balsa ones.

mainly because of all the 3d printed details i have added.

Ailerons are now all wired in and working.

I plan to start covering the upper wing panels tomorrow, if i get the chance that is.

still not sure on how to work the elevators yet, i will have to put my thunking cap on.

Tony B

Looks great mate. Very nice indeed.

the 3D bits aren't that heavy though

but there an awfull lot of them Martyn

will be interesting to compare weights at some point.

Tony B

The covering has started, eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep

otherside tomorrow, then i can do the silk.

Tony B

Looks ace so far Tony, really good work.

Luccaaa

Fantastic work Tonny ¡

What type of glue had you used for attaching the paper? I suppouse must be compatible with the depron you had used in the model.

At the moment I`d been unable to source some dope in my side of europe (restrictios on shipping). I ordered some from Retromodeller but cancelled the order due shipping restrictions.

José Luis

Started some painting, slowly getting there.

Tony B

Looking good Tony