Member postings for Eddie Lancaster

Hi. Ray, the loco looks good, building steam engines takes much more time to build than boats or planes.
I’m getting on well with the Cub, but then it does have gyro stabilisation, my first glider, a two meter electric powered Red Eagle is ready for it’s first test flight, maybe today if the wind isn’t too strong.

Sailing has helped with orientation, it’s just the up and down that I have to get used to!

Regards.

Eddie.

Hi. Ray, I don’t do exotic these days, Costa Del Wollaston is enough for me now.

I haven’t flown a model for more than sixty years now, when I had to make my own radio gear, using a rubber drive escapement, or free flight towline gliders and small, 30” wingspan rubber powered, I did get up to a 48” span control line Spitfire and a SE 2 biplane, I then got into boats and then steam, so I am regressing, I am back to my late teens at the moment.

I am just off to Northampton now to pick up a small, less than 250 grams, e flight Cub to practice with before I have to go through the rigmarole of CAA registration to fly the glider,

Regards.

Eddie.

Hi. Ray,That is looking good, is that 25 percent of the build done with 75 percent to go into the finishing details?

I am having a break from boat building at the moment, I am building an e glider????

Eddie.

On the water at last.

Not a lot of wind, but when there was a puff she made the most of it and accelerated away.

The bare hull weighed 1000 grams and with all the radio battery and sails fitted ready for the water she was 4050 grams, which I was quite happy with.

Eddie.

Hi. Tim, looking forward to seeing the progress on Kimberly. I have slowed to a holt on Westmoreland as I have finally finished my second Nimbus 3 IOM.

Regards.

Eddie.

Hi. Bob, thanks for your interest. The hull below deck level is Nimbus 3, but the foredeck is from Graham’s Boxkite as I didn’t like the totally flat deck of the Nimbus, so it is a hybrid, or should that be mongrel?

Best wishes.

Eddie.

Hi. Tim, sorry to hear about your IT problems, it is a real pain when that happens.

I have got to order some more 1.5X6mm bass planking, as well as some sheet to make the covering board’s and rails, as soon as I get them I can get busy on the top layer of planking. In the meantime I am trying to work out how to fit the servo winches, because the hull is shallow they will have to extend into the hatch cover area.

Regards.

Eddie.

Thank you Tim, pleased that you approve.

Eddie.

Here is a picture of Westmoreland in full flight.

The picture is from a book by Kent and Freestone on building TSB's.

This picture is the detail of the joint of the chine were it changes from square to rounded at the bow and stern.

and this is my attempt at that joint.

Eddie.

Edited By Eddie Lancaster on 09/07/2021 17:26:42

At last I have finished the paint job on what started out as the first Nimbus hull to be built.

It has only taken five months to get from the bare hull to this stage, most of the time was taken waiting for the right conditions, at least 18 deg. C and no wind, more time was spent with the hull hanging in the workshop letting the paint dry and harden fully. It just needs fitting out with the winch servo and radio, and the mast and rigging fitted.

Eddie

When you are following other people’s work and plans you don’t have to do much thinking, just cut and glue the pieces together, when you are off piste then you have to spend more time thinking about how to get what is in your mind into a 3D object, it takes me a lot longer now before the penny drops as to how am going to do something.

Everything is looking good.

Eddie.

Hi. Bob, thanks for that tip I will try it for the sharp bend needed at the bow.

Regards.

Eddie.

Hi. Richard, thanks for your kind remarks, I find that bass is easier to bend than balsa when wetted on the outside of the bend, the first planks are only 1mm thick, the second layer will be 1.5mm so will need a bit more help.

Regards.

Eddie.

Hi. Ray, I found when metal bashing that a casting could take a lot more time to turn into the finished item than a bundle of wood, and a lot of material could be liberated from a scrap bin with a small donation to the coffee fund.

Regards.

Eddie.

Hi.again Tim, do these photo’s help? If you can download and expand them you can see the run and number of planks.

Eddie.

Hi. Tim, I am now thinking about the final layer of planking, as like you I would like to see the planking through the paint.

The garboard planks need to twist through 90 deg. at the bow, and will need to be formed on a jig after a few minutes in boiling water, the planks at the chine also need careful jointing both at the stern and bow.

I agree, Ray would be onto his next build and planning the one after that😄.

Regards.

Eddie.

The first layer of planks have now all been fitted to the frames.

A few places needed to be filled with some thin balsa and sanded back to give a level surface for the top layer of planks.

Eddie.

Edited By Eddie Lancaster on 05/07/2021 19:05:10

The first layer of planks have now all been fitted to the frames.

A few places needed to be filled with some thin balsa and sanded back to give a level surface for the top layer of planks.

Eddie.

Hi. Ray, don’t get too high on that stuff, we don’t want it banned.

See what I mean about different ideas when building?

Regards.

Eddie.

Looking good Ray, please keep us informed, every build is different in some way.

Regards.

Eddie.