The Plane Talk The official monthly Newsletter of Angelo RC Inc www.angelorc.com Angelo R/C Inc. PO Box 60103 San Angelo, Texas 76906 Volume 7, Issue 4 April 2013 Upcoming Events: Thursday April 4, 2013 Angelo RC Club Meeting Peppercorn Grill 7:00 PM April 26 27th Central Texas Warbird Austin TX May 3 5th Old Kingsbury Flyin Seguin Tx GOPRO Photo from DJI Phantom Quad From the Editor: Indoor Flying Still in your blood? ARC has the permiswell thanks to Bill Haygood who let me fly his quad at the TINY, I have now entered the wonderful sport of sion of Johnson St Church of Christ to quad flying. I am doing this for the photography aspect. (So I told my wife) Others are into it for the FPV (First fly at the Church gym on Friday evenings. However we will need to rent the Person View). Gyros and GPS now make this sport possible for those of us that don t have the reflexes yet. gym for $15 per hour. Can we get Another feature I like is the RTH (Return To Home) that helps minimize the loss of your copter. There are some enough members to do this? If you very cheap and fun quads out there. For more info on these ask Brad Bradley about his $40 quad. would like to participate please contact Mark Greer aeronot@gmail.com This coming weekend April 6th is Don t Mess with Texas Adopt A Highway Texas Trash-Off annual trash pickup weekend. PLEASE try to make it out to the field Saturday Morning at 9:00 AM to help us maintain the two miles of highway in front of our ANGELO RC CLUB flying field. Remember the more folks we have, the quicker this goes. With a dozen folks we can be done in two hours or less. Please thank Chuck Harris, Bubba Brotherton, Fred Watkins, and TJ Sonnenberg for their time and help resurrecting our new mower. There were several things that needed to be done that these men donated their time to weld, machine, and troubleshoot this mower back to like new running condition. Thanks guys and please let me know if I missed someone. At our last monthy meeting we said goodbye to long time ARC member Ken Phelps. Ken is moving to Denton Texas. No doubt he will be flying with the North Texas Aeromodelers. Good luck Ken to you and your wife, Its been a pleasure to have you with us. Please join us at our monthly business meeting this Thursday evening. Till then, remember to Fly Safely! Charlie Campbell - Editor VIDEO CORNER Please Support our Local Hobby Shop! ARC Inc 2013 Officers Helicopter Pilot Fishes R/C Plane From The Top Of A Tree http://www.flixxy.com/helicopter-pilot-fishes-rc -plane-from-tree.htm#.uvjmzqio5oi Ask about a Customer Appreciation Card President Charlie Campbell Vice President Mark Greer Secretary Brad Bradley Treasurer Fred Watkins Safety/Field Officer Richard Gibson Webmaster David Woods
How to Simulate Rib Stitching - The Lazy Man s Way by Charlie Campbell OK so I bought an ARF, how much work could that be to assemble it? Answer: not too much unless you don t like the color scheme and want to detail it. So began my journey of the never ever ending detailing of a scale model. Much like a model railroad, you never really quit working on it, you just keep adding on and on and on.. So when I finished recovering my Hangar 9 Tiger Moth in fabric, I heard it calling me saying Why quit now I NEED my ribs stitched Knowing I m not getting any younger and still have other planes to build, I set out to find any easy way to not make this a precision scale model but still give it a good stand off scale appearance. Therefore I will present here a set of pictures showing the process I used to give this plane a look that on first glance appears to be some tedious work, but as you will see this process takes some of the time out of this very laborious job. One comment: My model was not built with the scale half ribs on the leading edge of the wing. This process allowed me to fake the location of those ribs! First go check out this website: http://home.cablerocket.com/~scaleribstitch/id4.htm Buy the stitching tape in the scale of your model. It comes in 1/6 to 1/2 Scale and custom sizes. Next I cut strips of rib stitching tape about 3/16 wide. (this width varies my plane was quarter scale) Then I cut some strips of Permagloss Coverite about 1/2 wide (these will simulate the pinking tape) Note: my pinking tape was not cut with pinking shears I tried but it did not work at all. Now I have found a website that does do that service for you but it is out of SolarTex fabric. If I did this over I would likely give these guys a try. http://www.pink-it.net/index.html I did not check to see if they would do Coverite s fabric. Mark the location you will apply the tape even if it s not on a rib. (see my comment above) Apply the stitching tape by simply pealing and sticking the tape to your ribs. Now iron on the pinking tape you cut directly over the stitching tape. This is how the real thing is done
Oh so you want to see the finished plane? Well come back next month and I will have some shots of my hopefully finished Tiggie then. Trust me this seems time consuming but it is really worth your time to do this. Holler if you have questions. Thanks! Charlie Campbell Photo s of some other modelers work with the same product.