Keil kraft Ajax - build update 1

[@eastendchewlix8885]

Ah this looks great! Well done on the build and a great video

[@Darren.n.RCvids]

Glad you like it, Thanks.

[@cadser0engco]

Great to watch and informative. Just building a Gullowes spitfire. First one since I was a child😊

[@Darren.n.RCvids]

Thank you Brian. The gullowes kits are lovely. Good luck with it, Darren.

[@EleanorPeterson]

Hello, Darren! Ah, wonderful Keil Kraft. Happy days. I remember adding banana-oil to thinned [cellulose] dope, which gave a useful amount of toughness and elasticity to the tissue covering. I look forward to seeing your test flights.🙂 I don't have anywhere local to do any indoor flying [I'm based in West Yorkshire], so I'm more of an outdoor gal. If you're tempted to venture outside with your Ajax, please watch out for rogue thermals if the model's not using a dethermaliser on every flight. I've lost more than one plane over the years, and it really hurts because it's usually your best ones that disappear vertically! I started fitting ultra-lightweight RC gear to my 'free-flight' models a couple of years ago, and it's grand being able to interrupt them occasionally and then guide them (almost) home. You still get to do all the usual free-flight fiddling and power-on, power-off trimming with shims and whatnot, but with the bonus of not losing your beloved creations. I use either rudder only, or rudder and elevator in the bigger models. Great fun, and it's a part of the hobby that the CAA hasn't destroyed yet. Yet...😞

[@Darren.n.RCvids]

Hi, Thanks for your comments. No shes going to be an indoor only flyer as no intention of taking outdoors, I got my bigger r/c planes for the outdoors flying, I'm just in the middle of putting the tissue on then it's on with some thinned down dope. Should be ready by weekend.

[@goforitpainting]

Really cool 👍

[@Darren.n.RCvids]

Thank you.

[@CliffHarveyRCPlanes]

Looking forward to seeing this one flying Darren, I would definately thin the dope by the way, full strength could be too much shrinkage

[@Darren.n.RCvids]

Thanks Cilff, only ever put it on straight from the tin before with a brush. What would you recommend to thin it down with.

[@ronmarking3776]

I can bring suitable thinners next Sunday!

[@Darren.n.RCvids]

Thanks but got some now, Thank you.

[@ronmarking3776]

Cliff beat me to it..... thin the dope with at least 50% thinners. Pin down the wing/tail/fin whilst the dope dries and then do a second coat.

[@Darren.n.RCvids]

Will do, thanks.