I hate eBay - Grump, grump, mutter, mumble.

Damn it - I've done it again - ANOTHER model I just have to build. I have a simulator and one of the models I've always had fun with is the Clancy Aviation Lazy Bee. Soooo - when a plan turned up on eBay of course I just had to have it! The Plan is for the BIG Lazy Bee - 40 IC power, 72 inch wing span with a 21 inch cord! - and - unlike the smaller model, this one has ailerons - 3 large sheets of plans! Hmmm - thought I - interesting! So onto the internet to see what information I could find - and - of course - heaps of it. I found a website -


lazybee.welcomes-you.com/


- and of course I'm immediately in contact with a whole world of Lazy Bee enthusiasts. The biggest Lazy Bee is absolutely HUGE - the biggest I've found so far is 18 foot wingspan!!!! I think I'm going to be content with the 72 inch version but who knows what madness will overtake me. Check out the website - there are Lazy Bee's of all shapes, sizes and colours - some with floats - some used as camera platforms and if there is a use for the model some one has tried it!! Now - all I have to do - once again - is re-arrange my building schedule DAMN IT! I just have to fit it into this winters building schedule.

So - the build list now reads: -
The Lancaster - Long term build - it's slowly coming on.
The PRXVI Mosquito - ditto
The Senior Telemaster - nearly finished - covering photos soon.
The Hustler DX7 Delta - next in line
The Clancy Aviation Big Lazy Bee - sob - I have to fit it in - building thread very soon.
The rest - don't ask



It looks something like this - Image from the Lazy Bee website - Thanks.

There is one at our club and it is very interesting in its ugliness

The Beard wrote: There is one at our club and it is very interesting in its ugliness

That's why I fell in love with it Stephen - it's almost like looking in the mirror!!

Well - I couldn't help myself - had to start building it!



Lots of laminated trailing edges and wing tips to make. Luckily the plan provides templates to make it a bit easier


Trailing edge of the elevator is all laminated


So is the complete fin/rudder outline


The drawing for the elevator lamination template - the outer line is a wingtip!


Lots and lots of 3/32 x 3/16 strips to cut. A balsa stripper is ideal for making these.


One of two elevator laminations. I wet the balsa and soak it in aliphatic white glue - work the glue into the balsa with a wet brush. Never had a de-lamination using this method.

Its very manouverable and has a certain comical presence in the sky,a bit of a Billy Bunter look

another model Il lusting for has come up(No Sarah not you not in public anyway)).Another Hangar 9 model.Its come up on E bay,the Denight Special so Im bidding away.Ive also bids on (Happy Grumpy) a group of IC engines and about 5 other engines and some servos also.There are also a couple of other models as well.

The Beard wrote: Ive also bids on (Happy Grumpy) a group of IC engines and about 5 other engines and some servos also.There are also a couple of other models as well.

That's it Stephen - keep up the good work -I just bought a couple of OS 4 strokes - a 70 and a 48 as well as a Saito 3 cylinder radial. IC Engines for ever. A word of warning to Willow - don't listen to the Gasser's siren song - IC engines are much safer than that *l*ctric stuff because you can hear the damn things when they are going - and besides - they sound - and smell good Besides if you go elec-trick you'll have to wear one of those bum freezing tutu's all the time.

Apparently Sarah does already Grumps

I wear a tutu with steel toe cap boots though, perfect for kicking peeps in certain places...................

More pics please!! I love watching builds as they take shape

Im bidding on a selection of engines but its pure speculation as to what they are and how good and the price is getting a bit high.Not even sure how many there are.

Decided the engines are probably rubbish,just found a job lot of models and new engines in boxes Im bidding on.

The Beard wrote: Im bidding on a selection of engines but its pure speculation as to what they are and how good and the price is getting a bit high.Not even sure how many there are.

Pig in a poke comes to mind Beard

Garry

Your probably right Garry Ive decided there not worth bidding any further.

The other recent items im bidding on include 4 models field box on wheels,New IC engines starter glow starts and all sorts.1 Model is new and unflown