Recent Posts

Archives

Topics

Archive for July, 2016

Blade Trio 360 CFX BNF Basic [VIDEO]

Monday, July 18th, 2016

From Blade: The Blade® Trio 360 CFX helicopter is a three-blade crowned cousin of a renouned 360 CFX powerhouse. Optimized servo geometry and lightweight pattern allows a high-voltage energy complement to yield well-developed opening with pointing control. With an oversized hardened categorical shaft, steel rigging servos, scrolled categorical rigging and a durable belt driven tail […]

Giant Jet Puts on a Show

Friday, July 15th, 2016

Built and embellished by Phil Noel of Pinnacle Aviation, this 1/3.5-scale Tomahawk Bae Hawk 100 is embellished out in Royal Canadian Air Force camouflage. Pilot and owners Steve Mills is drifting for a Wings Wheels throng in this video regulating a JR 28X radio. Watch a alighting for a ideal drogue trench landing! Thanks to […]

Workshop Video Tip: Rolling on Super Slim Lite Wheels

Friday, July 15th, 2016

ARFs currently come with froth wheels that are ideal for tough aspect runways, though for handling off of weed drifting fields, modelers need incomparable hole wheels. The difficulty is that bigger wheels are also wider, and mostly a model’s batch spindle wires will be too brief to scrupulously secure a circle collars. There are dual […]

Top Gun’s Monstrous Mentor — Mike Barbee’s Immense 36% Scale T-34B

Friday, July 15th, 2016

Mike Barbee is no foreigner to scale competition. He has flown during Top Gun for a past 24 years, and along a way, he has built and competed with 8 opposite airplanes. He is now a boss of NASA (National Association of Scale Modelers), and is a East Coast authority for a U.S. Scale Masters […]

Workbench Building Techniques — Inset Wire Hinging for Scale Surfaces

Thursday, July 14th, 2016

One of a more unique facilities found on hulk scale RC airplanes, and on warbirds in particular, are a inset hinges that use long, skinny focus wires to secure a control surfaces in plane. For my current project, an 85 in. camber Douglas Skyraider, this form of hinging is used with a rudder, here are some pix […]