Steve 12345

Sorry mtaylor old friend of course I should have remembered you thanks for the welcome back

Hey jack 👍

Hi all after a brief few years engrossed with rc planes I’m returning to ship building looking for my old friends ej ,Popeye, robin loius ,jack,leginseal,heronguy,worldway and I’m sure there was many more I fancy the artesania Latina Belem as my future build 

The scale drawing should show the waterline

On 2/18/2019 at 12:52 AM, SawdustDave said:

Beautiful job Steve.  The Vic is my favorite, having scratch built her three times over the years.  I go to sleep every night with her sitting right beside my bed.

Dave

Hi Dave I'm ready for another vic considering the Calder craft 

Thanks for the comments guys the cub is an absolute buety to fly but only after a lot and I mean a lot of experience I started by flying a foamie orientation was my first hurtle (what way up was it ) after concurring that I soon discovered I'm short sighted (others seemed to fly far away and I thought how can they even see that) after a trip the opiction I purchased some glasses solely for flying later I purchased some ready made almost ready to fly balsa planes the acro wot being one of them people from the uk will be familiar with this plane such a buetifull flyer I later purchased the acro wot xl and hey that thing is the best flyer I have then it was time to maiden the cub ,what a relaxing flight and lands like a dream everyone in my flying club adores seeing the big bird which has a good number of successful flight under her belt such a joy to fly

Marking this one as complete can't see me adding to it in the future thanks all for following I hope it has helped looking forward to my next ship build all you guys have helped a lot with your suggestions and encouragement 

many thanks

steve

Sails I'm glad I fitted did think about it for along time they can be left furled on the lower mast as I did ,each to there own decision personally I'm glad I chose to go with them 

Finally got round to my shore leave post of the piper cub it's only been a year apologies 

Hello all ive been away for a while from ship building as rc plane building has sparked my interest i thought i would show you all what to expect from a balsa plane kit 

and how i got on with my first build ,the build itself was quite quick built over the course of a couple of months and very satisfying to see a large airframe come together over the first few weeks ,at about half way into the build i joined a local flying club and knowing what i know now i 100 percent would not have succesfully flown her without there help ,over the course of the past year i have scaled her out a bit and now enjoy flying on a regular basis

Hi Nigel ratlines are a strange beast your either in the mood for them or not ,personally I enjoy them you will get a feel for them sometimes there frustrating other times they work ,glad your still enjoying your build it's looking superb 

Buetifull work Nigel I still check in from time to time and your progress is fantastic 

Looking great ej been a while from I signed in always keen to see your excellent progress 

Haven't checked in for a while just noticed your log WHATS KEEPING YOU MAN GET A MOVE ON lol nice progress but hurry up 😊

20" wing span lol can't wait to show you pics of this quarter scale cub I've had to change vehicles from a nice sports car to a boring estate car just to take the bad boy to the flying field ,that's how committed I've became to my new hobby 

Thank you William I've been away from msw for a while , I have become addicted to rc planes I hope to return at some stage,I still check in from time to time and it's great to see appreciation on my post thank you sir 

First time I've logged in for ages was really interested to see how your getting on ,what a fantastic job your doing I'm blown away hope your proud great job the rigging on them cannons is fantastic looking forward to seeing more as your progress 

kind regards

steve 

On 24/11/2017 at 3:49 PM, popeye the sailor said:

looking forward in seeing your progress on your plane Steve.........no pictures yet?   

Hi Popeye just logged back in first time in ages , this rc plane thing has completely taken over got four of them now on the go joined a club and really enjoying it I will get something together soon in shore leave and hope to return eventually with another ship build 

Hello guys just to let u all know I'm still here still check in from time to time just totally ingrossed with the rc plane build ,things are going great with it almost done I can post pics if anyone interested 

Yes my friend please follow and advise as it's all new to me 

Looks great harry what's next backbto the Samson or another project ? 

Hello all and welcome back to my penultimate post on HMS Bounty

another milestone reached is completion of the running rigging  I thank you guys for the suggestions on the stay line distortion issue I had

I stiffened the line with the white glue and water mix and played about and redone the lines several times Im know going to conclude I believe some distortion is normal maybe not so much on the real ship but it is just rope and any pulling on it at all will of course distort it so I think I can live with that .

We still ofcourse haven't reached completion there still remains my achilles heal on this ship, the ships boat and rope coils

with completion of the running rigging I am now going to let myself begin the rc aeroplane build

but your can be dam sure ill be back with a ships boat and rope coils to claim my sought after FINISHED badge in the title

so with some sadness the shipyard is deconstructed and now converted to a hangar

until then thanks guys for viewing liking and commenting

steve

Interesting suggestion do you think I could try pulling the kink out of the line with a temp line and painting the stay line and yard rigging with the glue and water then remove temp line ? 

hello all thanks again for viewing and commenting I need to ask some advice please before proceding .

this evening I managed to fit two of the yard arms but I am not happy with how they distort the stay sail lines is this normal or do I need to consider rigging a different way from the billings illustration please see photos and advice would be much appreciated

hello all with completion of all the rat lines on the main it was soon onto the mizzen

the mizzen was fitted in the exact same manner as the previous mast main stay first

then shrouds

backstays

then remaining stay

with that milestone reached its onto running rigging and the bow sprit has been rigged

with the remaining yards 8 of them in total pre rigged I see only a few more evenings work to go here ,I did have a snag list ive been working on and only one item remains the ships boat .

there will of course also be the final paint touchup and ropecoils

thanks for viewing

steve