I am a member of the Alvin club, when your ready to fly let me know, would luv to see it.

Cheers,
Eric B.

This is it for tonight

Looking good.

That's a beauty! I've gotta play with some depron, I feel like such a caveman carving blue foam.

That was my original plan but it was going to be a pain so I opted for 3mm depron foam and then I plan to balsa sheet over that for structure since the Depron is pretty soft

Forgive me for a dumb question, but I'm trying to learn construction techniques (especially ones that lead to low weight). Why do you choose to cover the depron with balsa? Why not just depron, or even just balsa sheeting? What advantages does the combination give?

(Again, please be assured I'm just trying to learn, not commenting.)

With balsa you need a internal structure ribs/formers stringers and then the sheeting can start. This method leads to a very light model and a very nice looking one

My method since its scratch card model build I needed a former structure to build upon. Once the formers are in place I needed to ensure that my profile is correct so all the sheeting are done in depron. Now I could have done it in balsa instead however it would have warped or what not. So best method I found was to make a under structure/skin and then balsa skin over top.

I was going to leave it a depron model but foam dings

Thanks for the reply; now I understand.

looks really cool. I'll be watching.

Started the planking!

Wow Looks Great!
Keep it up

Not sure if this is a big secret or not but where do you guys get your card models?

Originally Posted by bradywatt23

Not sure if this is a big secret or not but where do you guys get your card models?

Most of the Card-Modelers on RCG go through Fiddlers-green.com or these guys

http://www.ecardmodels.com/index.php/aircraft.html

Originally Posted by hi2nr

Started the planking!

The Balsa planking is an Excellent Touch Sir!

Agreed! The balsa looks nice.