While I'm at it - The Lanzo Bomber

This is my second go to submit this post - I screwed up the first time but - I think - I managed to delete it this time. I picked the plan for this Old Timer model on eBay for the princely sum of 5 bucks - seems no one else was interested at the time. :ohmy:

Then I started to build it and maybe I found out why - the Lanzo Bomber is NOT an easy model to build - the main problem is the pylon that mounts the mainplane - it's a night mare to get right.

Anyway - I have a heap of photos of the build but I'll start off with the main steps I've completed - later I'll add some of the detail photos to confuse every one - including myself - (how DISD I do that????) :dry: Here are the first half dozen photos: -


The Plan.


That damn pylon


Starting on the fuselage -it's a square section turned on it's side so the fuselage is a diamond
shape!


Starting on the pylon


Jigging up the fuselage to keep it all aligned is doubly important


Just to make Gasser happy - the lovely old Enya 35 III Special RC - Mint from out of the box!!

More photos, lots of detail and all the agonies to come.

Your all talk.All your engines are sparkling,I reckon theyve never been started or flown,nice model,lovely vintage engine,looking forward to episode 2.

The Beard wrote: Your all talk.All your engines are sparkling,I reckon they've never been started or flown,

Ah Stephen - damn it, you have to give the game away don't you?? :lol: How did you know I take all my engines to bed with me at night. :whistle: Seriously the Enya is one motor I bought and never took out the box for more than 20 years - Now I have the perfect model to use it in - Vintage Model - Vintage Engine - Vintage Builder. The point is of course that those blokes from the darkside don't have that sort of tradition to fall back on. IC Engines Rule!!!:evil:

spotted at the nats.

Ummm Tony - it's a "sort of" Lanzo Bomber I think - looks a bit smaller than 70" and is that an electric motor in the front?? Shame on you!!

As I said I have a heap more photos so I'll try to add them a few at a time in a fairly logical build order - (I don't always build in a logical order! :silly: ). I mentioned that the pylon mounting is one of the designs more challenging aspects and I wasn't happy with the way it was mounted on top of the fuselage and relied on a very difficult to build sheeted outer structure for strength - ( check out what I mean in the photo of the plan) - So I modified it by extending the centre down through the fuselage to give it more rigidity. that extension also provided a handy platform to mount the servos. The hardwood servo mounts also work to tie the whole damn thing together.

Now I have a sort of finished fuselage ( I borrowed the "sort of" off Tony) I supposed I need to give it some tail feathers before starting the assault on the wing. Here is the "sort of" progress: -

Grumpy42
That looks nice.
I notice on the plan the whole tail section is removable, I presume for transport rather than a 'dethermalliser' facility!

Yes mate the whole tail section is shown as removable on the plan but I decided not to follow - I've kept the whole thing in one piece - as far as I could see the only function of the idea was transportation - there is no dethermaliser built into it. The tail has a 27" span and with the elevator is an 8 " cord. The fuselage section immediately in front of the tail feathers is a very small cross section and with that sort of leverage I didn't want to temp fate. There is also the question of detaching and reattaching the elevator and rudder controls all the time - I am not a big fan unless it's a larger model designed that way in the first place - that's why all my biplanes are at least 1/4 scale