So the weather has been rubbish here in the UK so I thought why not have a go at making a foam board Spitfire!!!!!
Sorry for not having full build pictures for you but I just got my head down and decided I was building this. You'll see the drawing which I've used for measurements. Now unsure if this is to scale but it's pretty close, printed out drawing on a4 and basically times' everything buy 4.
She has a 28" wingspan so not a big plane but I only have a small motor 1450KV 120watts with the prop i'm thinking of using with a 2200mah 7.4 battery.
Started off cutting out box sections for fuse and that came together pretty well. (one side of the plane is one piece which includes the rear stabiliser and the other was cut shorter and then I feathered the end to a point so it doesn't have a large lip at the end. There I hit a problem. The rear stabiliser was off centre. To solve this I cut a small grove and bent it straight and hot glued it together.
I then started on the wing this is using the KM3 that Tony did on his V3 trainer (of which I have built but not yet flown) I did not however use the wrap over I simply stuck one on to each other. You can see from the pictures I hope that the bottom part of the wing is one piece and is cut into the fuse giving that seamless look like on the actual plane. Before mounting I cut 45 degree cuts along the top of the wing where it would eventually be mounted to allow for the dihedral and then glued the two remaining pieces on top of that after gluing to fuse. propped the wing tips up with the fuse on the deck and then glued the inside edges and grove to each side of the fuse (HOT GLUE) Been to model shop and bought a few bits today and have done a little more to the model this evening. Depron control horns which just snap in. I'm going to paint this model when I have sorted out the rest of the build.
KEEP YOU POSTED.
