RC Scale models

Maybe this SBD Dauntless might be of interest:

These pictures were taken from
http://www.rcuniverse.com/magazine/article_display.cfm?article_id=328

Here’s a little more about the building of this plane:
http://renderwurx.com/rc/SBD/

One word: Absolute perfection.

Bye
Andreas

Nice models Slipstream. The Crunchies biplane looks real, though if it were real they must have been practicing with a blow-up doll. :diablo: She looks a little inanimate.

Sunderland Piccies are Fabulous. Don’t forget to checkout page 2 of those shots.

My 75″ span ‘Mannock’

Barry Foster’s ‘Chrunchie and OATS Piper

Is this the one John?

http://www.rcwarbirds.com/inaction.html

I linked to this on another of Daz’s threads called “Show Us Your Models”.

It’s a stunning replica, just gorgeous. In fact, I wan’t one.

Sunderland

I occasionally brouse RC magazines at the news agent, and in a current American magazine someone has built a large scale Sunderland. There is a photo of it on the water and it’s amazing, even the common weathering of the paint has been done. beautiful. Also, I stumbled across a UK web site that features giiant scale RC planes … seems some of the Brits love huge models…warbird bombers, airliners, the works. Great stuff.

I found the Hercules photos, amazingly. I first saw this chap’s big Herc while I was based at RNZAF Woodbourne in 1989. I believe he was from nearby Blenheim. The plane was well known, and sadly it crashed and was destroyed. If I recall correctly it was even reported on TV about the crash, because he had been in the news beforehand at various events with the big Herc.

Anyway, these photos are taken later in 1993 (or possibly 1992, can’t quite pinpoint it). The venue is dear old RNZAF Base Wigram in Christchurch. Sorry the photos are not particularly good quality, but I hope they demonstate the size and beauty of this model.

It is in the 1965 – late 1980’s RNZAF colour scheme. Since the late 1980’s the RNZAF’s five Hercs have worn the gree/green/grey camo and now very low viz markings, looking much more warry.

The man in the blue tracksuit is Group Captain Gordon Wood, Wigram’s Base Commander (the base’s last commander sadly).

The white trailer in photo two is what he transported the odel in. The caravan behind belonged to PTS (Pilot Training Squadron) for their away excercises. I recall at one Christmas party some over enthused bod threw in a purple smoke flare as a joke – and it was more effective than expected, turning the entire interior purple, and the windows were oosing purple dye. Pretty funny. Anyway…

Also flying that day were a 1/4 scale Cosmic Wind (my Dad used to make and sell the kitsets for this model and this was one of his), a Piper Pawnee (also 1/4 scale) and a Stearman which was displayed pretty nicely.

Ah those lazy Wigram Sunday afternoons……

Spitfires – Spitfires everywhere!

I think I built the first 2-seat Spitfire model back in 1998 – it flew, then it got trashed in a tree! Sorry Carolyn! 🙁

After that horrible Cub, I built myself a Kamco Kavalier. Liked it so much I built another, then one for my mate, then one for another mate, then a biplane one!
Got the skills from fixing that bloody Cub!!

I miss flying my ‘sort of Cub’ already- as I mentioned in another thread it currently sits in the loft in a multitude of small bits waiting for a rebuild. Nothing wrong with the plane, more the pilot 😮

Oh well, my Corsair is coming along nicely 😉

Gave it to Ageorge.
Last I heard it was in Ireland!

😀 😀 😀 😀

And I thought it was just Alan.

I can relate to Dave’s story about the bloke with his Cub.
My first R/C plane was a Cub and I hated the thing. It was incredibly sensitive in pitch and dreadful to try and do co-ordinated turns with.
It landed upside down in trees, cartwheeled across the strip,nosedived to the ground,. and every time I took it away muttering, bringing it back the next week,repaired. Eventually it did the wooden cluster bomb thing. Built a brand new fuselage and gave it away after that.

I cant help but be impressed by a tiger moth built by a friend of mine…. scale hinges, working compass in the cockpit…. you get the idea 😀

Hi

Take a look at some of the other topics on the Scale section. Take a real close look at the C 47 Update & see how realistic that model looks.

Neilly

That second Tiggy shot could almost pass for the real thing!

Hiya,

You want models? Take a look at this site:

http://www.rcmodelflyers.co.uk/4um/index.php?topic=13104.0

TTFN,
Neilly

I can think of two best R/C models.

The first I saw at an annual scale model do that Waharoa airport, near Matamata puts on. It was a very large scale Harvard, at least 1/4 scale. It had a real metal fuselage (I suspect very thin aluminium sheeting over something else, but it looked extremely realistic with all the rivets, etc). The cockpit was right, the exterior right, and the scheme (in a 1960’s RNZAF Red Checkers scheme as NZ1091 – which was also a Warbird flying in that scheme) It was just spot on. Best of all, the engine (I think from a chainsaw) was set up with an exhaust system that made it sound right too! It actually sounded like a radial, and not an screaming annoying r/c engine. I only wish I’d had a camera. It’s flying display was perfect too, and from memory it also had a smoke generator.

The other is a Hercules, very large scale. I have mentioned it on here before, and I was going to look out the photos. I will try to find them and post soon. It is so big you won’t believe it. And very realistic.

The worst model? One chap here in Cambridge was brillaint entertainment. Alan was his name. A Randy Quaid kind of character, heart of gold, but… Every Sunday he used to come out full of enthuiasm to the flying field that the club used (my Dad was president and even though I have little interest in r/c models I used to go along sometimes to watch the planes). He had this little Piper Cub that seemed to be more patches than plane. I used to enthuse when I saw him arrive because it was great fun. He’d spend at least an hour every Sunday trying to get the engine to start, sometimes never succeeding. But when it finally happened he’d then heave it into the air, and it would seldom do more than a full circuit of the field before it would dive into the deck and break something. It would then be picked up and put back into the car, and he’d spend the rest of the afternoon planning the next rebuild over a cup of tea. And it would always be rebuilt by the next Sunday. He never once lost his temper and thoroughly enjoyed this hobby of his. The human spirit can be great, but that Piper Cub was such a dog. It put me right off the type all together. He’s probably still perservering with it 20 years later I’d imagine.