SAMS Models Lacey M-10

I've been working on detailing the Lacey this week for the BMFA Free Flight Nationals at Barkston this weekend. It's been entered in Open Rubber Scale.

First off, I've made up some dummy exhausts. The hole in the cowl was cut with a sharpened brass tube. The 'pipe' was cut from some ali tube slightly smaller than the brass stuff. The pipe was then sheathed with a ring of brass tube which will be used to adhere the pipe to the cowl. The intended effect is to have a hole in the cowl slightly larger than the tube. The following photos show stages in the build. The pipes have yet to be stuck into the cowl:





Next task was to make up some dummy control horns for the flying surfaces. There were taken from the full-size aircraft plans suitably reduced to model size. The elevators and rudder horns were made up from various sizes of ali tubing, the ailerons from litho plate. All will be painted white when complete on the model:









All should come clear tomorrow morning when the parts have been stuck to the model.

I've also made up an engine air intake (no photo as it's hidden under masking tape at the moment) and prepared some balsa to make up a flying spinner tomorrow morning.

Nice details, look forward to seeing them on the model

Thanks Chris. I've been on it agin today and started by making the aileron control horns from 1/32" ply rather than litho-plate - the latter wasn't stiff enough:





Next job was to glue in the exhausts, the carb intake can also be seen pre-painting:



The control horns were then glued to the control surfaces, control rods made up, dummy turnbuckles fitted and the whole shooting match fitted to the model. As a final touch, fairings were added to the upper wing controls:





It doesn't sound much when written down, but it took most of today to achieve..

That's all I'll be doing before the Scale Free Flight Nats at Barkston tomorrow and Sunday. Hopefully, the extra detail will increase the static mark over what the model achieved at he Scale Indoor Nats....

Very nice Andy that takes a lot of concentration and must be exciting to see it come together.Hope this will give you a well deserved high score.

very very nice work Andy.

Such a wonderful eye for detail.


Tony ( in awe) B

Nice detail touches Andy they work really well , well worth the effort. Good luck for the weekend .
Not sure which day open rubber is but if its sunday I'll come and cheer you on [badass]

Thanks Chris.

The main Rubber, CO2/Electric and Power scale events will be held Saturday and Sunday from 6.00pm to 9.00pm. In addition, there's Kit Scale Saturday Morning, AeroModeller plans Scale Saturday afternoon and Open Scale Flying Only on Sunday Afternoon.

Hope to see you sunday then... I'll be the one throwing things into the long grass trying to trim models out :S

Brilliant!

Well, all the hard work in detailing paid off. The model came first in Rubber Powered Scale at the BMFA Free Flight Champs at Barkston Heath yesterday. It gained third place in static, but a clear first in flight, the total score giving it first place overall. It's my first win in BMFA National Champs Outdoor Scale, so I'm well chuffed.

The official results aren't out yet so I can't tell you how others have done, but I'll post a link when they appear.

I have to say that I was smiling all the way home last night and a certain amount of celebratory port was consumed!

The only picture I have of it on the day was on my model cart waiting for it's turn to fly in front of the judges.

Congratulations Andy well earnt

Well done!
Mike

Well done Andy! Well deserved

Excellent result Andy and very well deserved. The flights I saw on Sunday evening were very good , its such a stable model

Congratulations Andy.
a well deserved win.

Tony B