Elevator control

Just made my control horn for the elevator. This will be inside the fuselage. Just needs welding onto the bar.😁

Rudder

Rudder built. Just needs covering with Solatex or similar!

Back at it!

After a few years of doing nothing on the plane due to family life and trying to start my own model shop venture as well as designing and building my own model of a Bolton Paul Defiant, I am back at it!! 

Just building the control surfaces.

New Venture

Just started a new venture... check it out at:
www.planesailingrc.co.uk

Almost looks like an aeroplane!

Put all the pieces together last night just to get an idea of size etc...

Wings Skinned!

I have at last managed to finish skinning the wings. Top sheets were applied over the weekend. Used sandbags to weigh the sheets down as they mould to the profile of the wing. Needed a bit of Lead on the wingtips and clamps to get the sheet to form to the complex curves at that point, but apart from that, the sheets went on quite quickly and easily!

Looking at other plans, I think a solid wing tip would have been easier to construct, but I'm sure there are reasons for the way it has been designed.

Retracts

Have now got the retracts for the Zero. Quite substantial really. I am just strating with the final skinning before glass coating the wing.