Great Planes Electricub II Build | HobbyView

In days of old when modelers were bold and kits were built with abandon...
I return to my roots and build an old fashion kit in the form of the classic Electricub.
Part 2 can be seen here: • Electricub II Flight R...
Available at: www.towerhobbies.com
Hear us discuss three different builds of this kit at: rcroundtable.com/

[@tonyaccurso1090]

Still enjoying this video after 3 years. I've watched it numerous times. Also, I love the music. Good stuff!!

[@HobbyView]

Thanks, Tony.

[@robertspeicher5047]

Back , before the turn of the century. I read a story of a pilot, hired to deliver a brand new plane. Like this. Yellow and inside a very bare panel. He had to use maps, gas station , and followed rail roads and highways. It was a true story.

[@jj182bass]

I have been building up the courage to do a kit build after a few false starts with some small guillows kits. I have to say this video has given me much more confidence. Thanks for including pieces where the laser cut parts don't line up, I've always thought these issues were related to my skill. Keep up the good work, It's great to see an old school build! as a 32 year old I joined the hobby just as ARTFs were coming into the fold and coming back into the hobby and only seeing PNF foamies made me miss the traditional builds I never managed to complete.

[@MrVasmikey]

Jeez, just found your channel. When I saw you building this kit, I remembered I had an ultra sport 60 under my work bench. It has been sitting there for at least 20 years. I pulled it out and have started building. You’re killing me Fitz!!

[@robertspeicher5047]

What a super hobby. Winter, constructing, spring first flight.

[@mediumpimpn]

Version 1 was my first kit build :) Flew on 7 cell ni-cd, servo switch, & the stock plastic gearbox. Love your videos! Keep up the good work! :)

[@markjannakos503]

Thanks for taking the time to make this Video. I very much enjoyed it. and now know what to tell my kids what I want for Christmas.

[@Jorge-hj2tp]

Last guy I seen work that fast was Beldar Conehead! Lol! Great job you are a excellent kit builder.

[@miguelsuarez8010]

Back in the memory lane.... I thought they didn't make these kits anymore. I built this one maybe 12 years ago... darn, I was 12 years younger. I installed a brushed motor with gear reduction that must have weighed half a pound, plus an enormous nickel metal battery... all that must have weighed more than the airframe. But it flew great! Later on I changed for a brushless an lipos.

[@edsherrod5216]

Nice review - I bought a Great Planes PT-Electric and yes - you are right - it barely got off the ground with the brushed motor and 6 cell battery pack (no mods). It has been a hangar queen in my garage for about 20 years now, after I tried to use it to teach my oldest son and he ran it into a 4 inch curb 🙂

[@tasoanastasio]

Great job on the covering. It's the part I never look forwarding to myself as a kit builder

[@greenlantern3561]

Really enjoy your vidoes. Thanks for sharing your experiences. Good job man. It's great to see someone building a kit. That balsa smell, reminds me of my younger days going to the hobby shop with my dad.

[@frederickwilliams2183]

And the colored dope...open the windows! monokote replaced coverings on larger models

[@michaelbrinkley9323]

Beautiful aircraft, and a very enjoyable video.😀

[@youknoweverything7643]

I built this kit from new unopened kit to a ready to fly beautiful electric plane in 17 hours I love this plane flies so nice and beautiful and looks good to I did mine in white with blue accents on wings and fuselage it's has the blue cub stripes instead of yellow fuse and black stripes lol. I never knew you could paint monokote and ultrakote that's so awesome to know now I can just get the color I want in monokote close then buy some model plastic car paints and paint it using airbrush and rattle cans I just used some rc car body paint on a test surface of a broken wing and letting it dry since rc car lexan body spray paint is flexible somit doesn't chip and peel off lexan rc car bodies like regular spray paint does and monokote and ultrakote are very close to plastic like surface that flexs and moved so I figured it would hold.up better then use a clear coat for doing plastic bumpers on cars to seal it in and make it very glossy and wet sand and polish if you wanted to. And using rc car paint or model plastic paint you have hundreds of colors for airbrush and in rattle cans tons of Clorox pearls and color changing paints and metal flakes ect. If the rc car paint spray paint works I'm gonna paint my balsa built Corsair that has a 70 inch wing span with uktracote I wanna do a custom metal flake paint job on it the metal flake blue and white I got is literally huge flakes and when sprayed looks like a bass boat is how huge the flakes and heavy the flakes are it will look beautiful

[@tomb1598]

I built an ElectriCub Mk I a couple years ago, but it didn’t have ailerons in the plans. I should have built them in, in order to make the craft more aerobatic. I might just build the ailerons into the wing this upcoming winter. Another great video my friend.

[@upperechelon3456]

So so true your comments regarding building balsa kits.

[@DaveStroble]

Great video, great subject...well done! Enjoying your videos so much.

[@robertspeicher5047]

When I was little, I was given a P 51 balsa kit. My dad had built many when he was a boy. Rubbere band powered, the big day arrived, kit finished. Wound up the band, let fly out the window, and like a bullet, flew about 25 yards into an 8 foot chain link fence......I tried once....just didn't k ow the tricks.

[@patrickrinehart4393]

Well done good sir!

[@glennroberts461]

Great video to show how it can be done. Certainly not an instructional video but this is tantalizing for someone who is considering a kit. If this had been 10 15-minute videos showing complete instructions it could have been overwhelming, especially if it had errors like some others I have seen.

[@JamesRCPlaneTech]

Very nice! Kit building is the best.

[@wearemany73]

Beautiful build Sir! 😍🕺

[@geebee3d]

Building the model is half to three quarters of the fun. And if you like kit building, try building an old school stick and tissue model from plans. Keil Kraft Senator is a good one, as are any of the P30 sport planes and the Prairie Bird embryo endurance model. Or just browse Outerzone plans for anything you could ever want to build. Seriously, there are some amazing plans on that site. Have fun.

[@frederickwilliams2183]

nice review. I have one 90 pct done / I got it in 1996. technology for motors and batteries and 2.4 ghz trasmitters allows a nice lighter update. thx

[@PatBALEX]

Great job.. A little kit building is sweet.. That's how I started many moons ago.. I've lost SD cards too. Here's a little trick.. When you put in your SD card, use a small piece of Scotch tape to lock it in.. Do that and the card won't come out..

[@shariyeadon8488]

PatBALEX

[@HobbyView]

Card didn't fall out of camera, i took it out and lost it before I could get to computer...

[@Ken-hs5yu]

Great fun. Enjoyed the video.

[@angelosardi9442]

Excellent Job.👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

[@kerrysnider442]

Looks great

[@bobwebber8521]

Half the "fun" of building was trying to figure out how best to cut the pieces out of sheets of balsa. What would we have given for instant glue? And iron on film. Still a nice kit by all standards and great video production. Thanks so much.

[@RichardT2112]

My first kit was a balsa Eagle II ... months to finish and seconds to destroy ... thankfully that wasn't the end for my plane ;)

[@HobbyView]

I know what you mean. It was a right of passage to destroy a model you built from a kit. Eagles were great trainers.

[@DesertSessions93]

very fun to watch.

[@ChrisZwolinski]

I built my first model, a Great Planes Cessna 150 in 1978 at night, after school in a week using wood glue. CA was just coming into the world at the time. I've been out of the hobby for a very long time and would like to get back into it. I have a Gentle lady a friend gave me and would like to know what is the suggested form of CA that is used to build these days?

[@leepeng6701]

Hi there!!!! Have you try out the yellow aircraft F-14 tomcat?

[@Skunkman001]

What are you using for your build board?

[@mattluszczak8095]

Hi bud. Is that plane made out of a plywood?. Seems stronger than balsa

[@HobbyView]

Mostly balsa with some play at strategic locations.

[@mazpr2025]

Looking at your garage, you are borderline hoarder buddy!

[@prestongibson8886]

Nice. Bro

[@mcdo0gal1985]

Is the kit no longer for sale?

[@HobbyView]

It may not be since Hobbico was sold to Horizon...

[@mcdo0gal1985]

:(

[@HobbyView]

@@mcdo0gal1985 , the kits have been made since the 80's. It should be relatively easy to find on the second hand market. Keep en eye on e-bay or RCGroups classifieds.

[@mcdo0gal1985]

Sorry another question, what kind of board are you building on? Ps also loved your q tee build video. Wish you had more to watch!

[@HobbyView]

@@mcdo0gal1985, it is a Great Planes balsa building board. Not sure if it is still available.

[@Zoooooooooooo]

Beat?

[@HobbyView]

It?

[@Zoooooooooooo]

HobbyView Thank you for getting back to me. I just like listenimg to beats so I would appreciate it if you would tell me the beat at 3:33.

[@HobbyView]

Buddha by Kontekst from SoundCloud goo.gl/YmnOAx