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| hjlittman | Guillows Series 700 - Arrow | Build | 17-Mar-14 16:05 |  | | Views : 1104 | | At the end of the first hour I had the tail feathers and most of the wing rough framed. |
| hjlittman | Guillows Series 700 - Arrow | Build | 17-Mar-14 16:03 |  | | Views : 632 | | Starting with the tail feathers. I don't like to put pins through the parts, if I can avoid it, so I use some rather long push pins I found at Office Depot, They are not as long as the Czech pins made just for model building, but they work rather well. |
| hjlittman | Guillows Series 700 - Arrow | Build | 17-Mar-14 16:01 |  | | Views : 648 | | I'm keeping a time on the work bench because I only have an hour a day to work on it. |
| hjlittman | Guillows Series 700 - Arrow | Build | 17-Mar-14 15:54 |  | | Views : 642 | | Started by examining the plans to see what mods I would make. The landing gear wire pattern was on the side of the plan that would be down while assembling the structure so I bent the landing gear wire before pinning the plans to the board. |
| hjlittman | Guillows Series 700 - Arrow | Build | 17-Mar-14 15:52 |  | | Views : 659 | | Started on Arrow kit for "G" Challenge. Catalog in box and date code on decal sheet confirms that the kit was produced in December of 2009. |
| hjlittman | HJL Models F2A Buffalo | Parked | 16-Sep-13 23:31 |  | | Views : 1054 | | F2A in the pre-WW2 skin |
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| hjlittman | HJL Models F2A Buffalo | Parked | 30-Jul-13 12:30 |  | | Views : 1193 | | "No-Cal" Fokker F.36 one off for a local indoor contast last Saturday night. The contest was "Two, Three, or Four Off The Floor", for multi-motored rubber powered models, R.O.G. Placed 2nd in 4 motor category. |
| hjlittman | HJL Models F2A Buffalo | Parked | 17-Jul-13 18:19 |  | | Views : 1180 | | This is the production version of the F2A No-Cal. It is an unhurried 2 hour build using C/A and kicker and applying the skins with Uhu glue stick. This example took about five minutes to trim, needing just a bit of clay and bendint the thrust mount for a tight left turn. 450 turns on a loop of 3/32" rubber had it cruising around under a 23 foot ceilint. 500 turns was too much so 1/16" rubber will be used to reduce the climb and get longer flights. |
| hjlittman | HJL Models F7U Cutlass | Parked | 08-Jul-13 22:45 |  | | Views : 1210 | | This is the final version. The only change to be made is the substitution of a machine nut for the five BBs used as nose weight. I've discovered that I can't ship BBs in the kit since that constitutes "shipping amunition through the mails". Had this one cruising around 41 feet off the floor. |
| hjlittman | HJL Models F7U Cutlass | Parked | 08-Jul-13 22:38 |  | | Views : 1059 | | Line up of survivors of the 8 prototypes. The fun flyer, second from the bottom, called the WingyThingy, was scavanged from an earlier Cutlass to test the new wing design. |
| hjlittman | HJL Models F7U Cutlass | Parked | 31-May-13 20:07 |  | | Views : 1007 | | This is not scale or even semi-scale, but a "looks like it could have been" model. I decorated mine after a Bleriot-Spad 510 of the mid 1930's. Didn't get it trimmed in time for the contest, but got to fly it outdoors before the wind came up this morning and it is really a good performer at 20 grams, |
| hjlittman | HJL Models F7U Cutlass | Parked | 31-May-13 20:03 |  | | Views : 1089 | | This is a brief pause in my Cutlass development. It is a Bill Hannan design called the FAR-MAN and was done for a local, one-design, indoor contest. Takes a couple of hours to build and once you get it trimmed flies amazingly well. |
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