I found a set of plans that are for a balsa plane. I want to use Blucore instead. Now what I did was scale the plans to the size I want, there are 2 pages one with the wing construction and the other with the fuse. I printed both pages to the same scale, then I relised that the plane would come out about a .5" wider the planned. So I then reduced the fuse sheet by .5"by taking one of the formers and reducing it from 1.875 to 1.375. Is this right or should I have used the inkpen trick?

Originally Posted by Water Boy

I found a set of plans that are for a balsa plane. I want to use Blucore instead. Now what I did was scale the plans to the size I want, there are 2 pages one with the wing construction and the other with the fuse. I printed both pages to the same scale, then I relised that the plane would come out about a .5" wider the planned. So I then reduced the fuse sheet by .5"by taking one of the formers and reducing it from 1.875 to 1.375. Is this right or should I have used the inkpen trick?

I've done the same thing working from 3 views for my P6E.

http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showthread.php?t=680060

For some reason things didn't come out right for all the pieces. I just measured each part of the reduction to make sure it was ok. Some of the parts especially those close to the corners needed some tweaking. As an example when I got the measurements I needed for the wings the stab was too little. All in all, it was pretty easy... just check them for your measurements. Good luck. Bob

Here is the plane I have in mind. Its a Hansa S5A

Originally Posted by Water Boy

Here is the plane I have in mind. Its a Hansa S5A

WB.... Great looking plane Bob

Yeah, I just hope mine turns out that nice. I may start it tonight and just use this as the build thread.

Originally Posted by Water Boy

Yeah, I just hope mine turns out that nice. I may start it tonight and just use this as the build thread.

Great.... Count me subscribed. Bob

Originally Posted by Foamenator

Great.... Count me subscribed. Bob

Great! Just put even more pressure on me.
Should be a fun build, its gonna be my first float plane so it should prove to be interesting.
Harry

I have built a couple of planes using balsa plans. Looking at the plane you want to build I would just build the fuselage as a box without formers. I only used the balsa plans for outline. I cut out two sides. I cut out top and bottom minus twice the thickness of the foam. Glue the sides square to the top and bottom. One plane I needed a round deck so I just glued two flat sheets on and sanded round.

Originally Posted by Water Boy

Great! Just out even more pressure on me.
Should be a fun build, its gonna be my first float plane so it should prove to be interesting.
Harry

Harry... Have you looked at Tony 65x55 build threads on the SE5A and BluBaby.

http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showthread.php?t=681556

Both use Tony's Monobloc concept. It think that it would work perfectly with this plane. A solid block to carry motor, wings, floats, etc. Really strong setup without much additional weight and perfect alignment for motor wings, etc. I've built four of them and they all fly great and stand up to my dumb thumbs really well. Tony also has plans for floats on the BluBaby thread, towards the end of the thread. Bob

I thought about going with the simple "box" style, still probably will as its so much easier. This is a very hard to find plane. I have not been able to find any pics of it, other then the ones that are in the article I have. I'll post the PDF of the article that also has the plans. Its in Swedish or Dutch (or some other language) so I have no idea what the article says.
Harry
EDIT: Theres a pretty nice vid of it in action in the PDF.

The article is in Swedish, not dutch, those 3 crowns and Swedish colours kinda give that away, doesn't it? It certainly is a nice plane, are you planning on details like that fake motor too?
A monoblock should be feasible, especially if you make the round nose part of it. The rest of the curvature should be easy to make by rounding off the box structure.

I would like to do some detail such as the faux motor and roundness of the fuse.
Kinda at a stand still, got the fuse sheet cut and ready to tape together. Just need a little motivation or kick in the butt. My wife has some goofy pampered chef thing tonight, so maybe I can get something accomplished. We'll see.....

Originally Posted by Water Boy

I thought about going with the simple "box" style, still probably will as its so much easier. This is a very hard to find plane. I have not been able to find any pics of it, other then the ones that are in the article I have. I'll post the PDF of the article that also has the plans. Its in Swedish or Dutch (or some other language) so I have no idea what the article says.
Harry
EDIT: Theres a pretty nice vid of it in action in the PDF.

WB... Those are great plans. May I ask where you found them? You won't have any trouble except to get the cg right with such a short distance between the cg and the nose. Oh well... use a big battery and and a big heavy motor. Bob

Bob, I was looking to do this Hansa instead. So I did a search here on RCG and found a link to the PDF file. I could not copy and paste the plan pages to rescale in tileprint. So what I did was print them onto a single page, the rescanned them into the comp. via the scanner. Both planes are very nice looking, great lines for a WWI plane. Even thought they resemble most of the planes from that era, theres just something about it. I have the Fiddlers version of the W29, I thought about trying that first.
As far as getting the CG right, I was thinking of cheating a little and extending the nose a tad.

Originally Posted by Water Boy

Bob, I was looking to do this Hansa instead. So I did a search here on RCG and found a link to the PDF file. I could not copy and paste the plan pages to rescale in tileprint. So what I did was print them onto a single page, the rescanned them into the comp. via the scanner. Both planes are very nice looking, great lines for a WWI plane. Even thought they resemble most of the planes from that era, theres just something about it. I have the Fiddlers version of the W29, I thought about trying that first.
As far as getting the CG right, I was thinking of cheating a little and extending the nose a tad.

WB... That's another great one. I think I like the one your starting best though because of the radial engine. Can't wait to see the build. Bob