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Author: | JohnB [ Sun Jul 12, 2020 10:45 pm ] |
Post subject: | Re: RC Warbird repaints |
After some of the more drastic conversions (like the B-25 into a Neptune), can they still fly? |
Author: | Warbirdnutta [ Sat Jul 18, 2020 10:34 pm ] |
Post subject: | Re: RC Warbird repaints |
JohnB wrote: After some of the more drastic conversions (like the B-25 into a Neptune), can they still fly? Sorry for the slow reply, here's a screen shot of GoPro footage of the Nepie. Was sort of lucky with this one as the B25 was always nose heavy so adding weight at the tail helped, yeah she flies nice a little fast, to be expected with the extra weight. |
Author: | JohnB [ Sun Jul 19, 2020 2:21 pm ] |
Post subject: | Re: RC Warbird repaints |
I'm impressed...I wouldn't have thought that was likely given the changes. You must have reworked the rudder linkages. You're a bit of an miniature scale aerodynamicist. Just don't go flying in a C-82 (or C-119) over the desert. If you can turn a PBY into a Goose, I might have a client for you. |
Author: | Warbirdnutta [ Mon Aug 17, 2020 7:12 pm ] |
Post subject: | Re: RC Warbird repaints |
Thanks John, time on my hands so few screen shots of the previous, they are stills taken from Gopro footage so some a little grainy. IAF Fiat G59. RNZAF P40N. RAAF P40N. Russian Yak3. Fleet Air Arm Martlet. USAF P47 Thunderbolt. RAF Gloster Gladiator. RAAF Avro Cadet. RAAF Mustang III. RNZAF P51D Mustang. RAAF CA15 Kangaroo. |
Author: | Warbirdnutta [ Tue Dec 01, 2020 11:30 pm ] |
Post subject: | Re: RC Warbird repaints |
Latest from the palm island plane factory, always had a fascination for the little Russian Rata, Rat, Little Donkey, Polikarpov I 16 since a New Zealander Sir Tim Wallis recovered then restored five of them back in the nineties, see cool clip! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oi-VQM4jb3s So have UM GeeBee that has seen better days, decided to kit bash the GB using the wing from a Yak 54. If I was a super fussy rivet counter I’d call her a little too rotund in the waste line, lucky I’m not super fussy! Test flew pre paint, she needed a little lead in the nose, super twitchy in roll and she dives like a brick, interesting as the real one has similar characteristics. More on the chubby little Russian below. http://www.flying-wings.com/i-16-rata Paint and decals on, from what I have found most Ratas did not have top wing stars, may put them fo jollies, the decals are from my spares box actually for a Yak 3. Next some weathering, sealer coat, guns, paint the pilot and fly! Added a pilot to my UM Gee Bee to Rata I16 conversation. Not the best shot but proof she flies. |
Author: | phil65 [ Wed Dec 02, 2020 11:39 am ] |
Post subject: | Re: RC Warbird repaints |
Nice... Phil |
Author: | wendovertom [ Thu Dec 03, 2020 9:56 am ] |
Post subject: | Re: RC Warbird repaints |
Post some more footage of them flying! Tom P. |
Author: | Warbirdnutta [ Sat Dec 05, 2020 1:36 am ] |
Post subject: | Re: RC Warbird repaints |
wendovertom wrote: Post some more footage of them flying! Tom P. That day will come I hope, I live on a small island in the Tasman Sea with average internet service and speeds, next visit to the mainland will have a go! |
Author: | Warbirdnutta [ Sat Dec 05, 2020 1:37 am ] |
Post subject: | Re: RC Warbird repaints |
phil65 wrote: Nice... Phil Thanks Phil. |
Author: | Warbirdnutta [ Wed Jun 30, 2021 4:52 pm ] |
Post subject: | Re: RC Warbird repaints |
wendovertom wrote: Post some more footage of them flying! Tom P. Finally sorted editing and uploading some clips of my RC Warbirds. [youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vL2nbo4dxGA[/youtube] |
Author: | wendovertom [ Tue Jul 06, 2021 6:11 pm ] |
Post subject: | Re: RC Warbird repaints |
Looks great! I feel bad that your aerodrome is so unsightly - LOL - That is beautiful scenery to fly those awesome planes in! Tom P. |
Author: | Warbirdnutta [ Tue Aug 24, 2021 2:05 am ] |
Post subject: | Re: RC Warbird repaints |
Okay the latest from the plane crazy plane factory, picked up a couple of these UM 2s Mustangs a while back when they were on sale. Plan has always been to convert both of these to something else? Even when they were putting these out at a semi regular pace we never got any Axis or Brit aircraft. So first up going for something a little different, how about a Movie Messerschmitt? The Hispano Buchon or HA1112 came about when the Spanish acquired a number of 109G airframes, the Germans ran out of Damiliar Benz engines so they were fitted with British Merlin powerplants. A number of these had just come out of service at around the time of the filming of the classic late 1960’s British pic the “Battle of Britain.” Flown by Spanish Air Force pilots a number of Buchon stood in for the Luftwaffe against the RAF. This film Is sometimes credited with the beginnings of the Warbird movement as we know It today. Movie Messerschmitts, Buchons also flew in the recent “Dunkirk,” “Memphis Belle,” even stood in as Mustangs in the movie “Patton.” As is obvious I’m a bit of a fan and was lucky to attend the 2018 Flying Legends At Duxford where a lot of the scenes from the “Battle of Britain” was shot. This rare two seater was used for in cockpits shots in the “Battle of Britain.” The number of airworthy Buchons increased in recent years when famed Warbird pilot and collector, “Connie Edwards” sold his collection of six Buchons, a number of which are featured in my photos above, very cool clip below of Connies barn! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wiv0U5aNc38 One of the reasons I chose a Merlin powered Buchon over a Daimler Benz powered 109 I didn’t have to lower the motor meaning a whole lot more work. The after market 1/24th scale canopy is perfect and again a whole pile of work saved. Always fly my conversions before paint in case I end up with a can of worms, she flew great. Have a couple of surprises with this little job, no prise for guessing what colour the nose will be? So here’s the undercart, really only did this to use while working on her, she will be a hand launch/belly lander, undercart hanging down on a warbird absolute no no in my book! Paint and decals, was always going to have a yellow nose, the pureists will query why I went Buchon and not a BF 109? Firstly, less work as lowering the motor would have meant a lot of work, secondly the Buchon doesn’t get a whole lot of love and she is a genuine warbird. I am an absolute fan of the wonderful British film, the Battle of Britain, it is the reason, to this day, I am a big time warbird fan. Such films as Memphis Belle and Dunkirk would have no choice but to use CGI for Messerschmitts without the Buchon! Yes that is a bomb and yes have used a servo on the sixth channel so it can be dropped, after the Battle of Britain the Germans used 109s to do Wild Sau raids, a lone fighter would cross the channel and bomb random targets. Will try and get a video of her in the near future. Markings, “White 13” flown by Hauptmann Walter “Gulle” Oesau out of St Omer-Nord/ France August 1940, on the 18/8/40 shot down two Hawker Hurricanes, one over Cap Gris Nez and another over Canterbury. Walter Oesau http://falkeeins.blogspot.com/2018/07/1 ... oesau.html She flies, a little surprised needed the CG a bit further forward than expected. “White 13” over the white cliffs of Dover! |
Author: | mazdaP5 [ Tue Aug 24, 2021 5:32 am ] |
Post subject: | Re: RC Warbird repaints |
Outstading work. Where are you able to get your blur foam from? I've had some NZ folk asking because it's not common in the shops there. |
Author: | Warbirdnutta [ Tue Aug 24, 2021 1:36 pm ] |
Post subject: | Re: RC Warbird repaints |
mazdaP5 wrote: Outstading work. Where are you able to get your blur foam from? I've had some NZ folk asking because it's not common in the shops there. Found a small stash at our local waste facility, I agree it is hard to find, I have wondered if surfboard foam could be an okay alternative? |
Author: | mazdaP5 [ Wed Aug 25, 2021 3:00 pm ] |
Post subject: | Re: RC Warbird repaints |
Warbirdnutta wrote: mazdaP5 wrote: Outstading work. Where are you able to get your blur foam from? I've had some NZ folk asking because it's not common in the shops there. Found a small stash at our local waste facility, I agree it is hard to find, I have wondered if surfboard foam could be an okay alternative? Thanks for the follow up. I'm lucky to be in the north, we have it in multiple sizes in the builders shops. |
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