1/16 Ww2 Air Support Coming Soon!

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1/16 Ww2 Air Support Coming Soon!
Topic Started: Sep 23 2006, 07:35 PM (460 Views)
T-force1	Sep 23 2006, 07:35 PM Post #1
Worthy of the Trax! Posts: 93 Group: Contributing Member Member #97 Joined: July 1, 2006	Yep, it's 1/16, it's R/C, and it'll fly! After having built several R/C planes and flown them succesfully, I'm going all the way... it's got tricycle landing gear... it's a twin... it's a warbird... it's..... A P-38!!!!!!!!! I bought the kit a couple of weeks ago, but didn't realize til tonight that it's 1/16 scale (actaully 1/16.5, but that's picking nits.) I hope to have it done this winter. I'll defenitly post pics when it's done. I'll try to post some video of it too somewheres.



spoon37	Sep 24 2006, 06:14 AM Post #2
Trax Master Poster Posts: 602 Group: Admin Member #11 Joined: December 14, 2005	cool... not always easy to get RC's in the same scales..



Supreme Reign	Sep 24 2006, 01:31 PM Post #3
Making Trax! Posts: 134 Group: Family Member #77 Joined: May 7, 2006	That's friggin' awesome Just imagine one of those flying overhead during a tank battle! Especially a plane with a working bombadier If stupid Tamiya had sense, they would've built their semis 1:16 like Weidco so it would go with their tanks! I lost interest in finishing my custom big rig since it would be out of scale with my tanks
	DestinyYou cannot destroy my destiny!


T-force1	Dec 9 2006, 02:06 PM Post #4
Worthy of the Trax! Posts: 93 Group: Contributing Member Member #97 Joined: July 1, 2006	Well, I finally started it! I wouldn't even be posting it if it were not 1/16 scale. I hope everyone doesn't mind that it's an airplane. This is the P-38's left boom:



outcastrc	Dec 9 2006, 06:32 PM Post #5
Administrator Posts: 1,150 Group: Admin Member #1 Joined: December 13, 2005	Anything rc goes in here. What are you planning on powering it with?



T-force1	Dec 9 2006, 07:28 PM Post #6
Worthy of the Trax! Posts: 93 Group: Contributing Member Member #97 Joined: July 1, 2006	Two small outrunner style brushless motors and a 1300mAh two cell lithium polymer battery. This should give it a thrust/weight ratio better than a real P-38, but I can take it easy on the throttle in the air to give a scale appearance in flight. However, I can open up the throttles in an emergency to avoid a scale appearing crash...



WhiteWolf McBride	Dec 9 2006, 08:06 PM Post #7
Making Trax! Posts: 196 Group: Moderator Member #15 Joined: December 15, 2005	Thats the Guillow's kit, right? They make a bunch that are 3/4" to the foot, aka 1/16 scale. Not cheap though, anywhere from $30 and up. If I remember right, the P38 is #2001, and all the other 1/16's are the 400 series babies. I have one of the older Comet kits, a rather rare J3 Cub recon-spotter (as seen in Battle of the Bulge) and just recently got a V1 kit. If my health improves in Jan, I hope to begin both and have them on display with my V2's by the time the snow is gone. OH... you want a V1 Doodlebug? RepliKit in the UK has them, gorgeous laser-cut (as well as many other kits) Be warned, they are all Jetex/Rapier rocket-powered kits, so mods for electric flight might be a task. My V1 will be a display, or at best, a catapult-launched glider. I may power the Cub, but depends on how well I assemble her. I think Tower has the Graupner Fieseler Storch park flier, and its almost scale... its the Axis counterpart to the Cub. Now if I could only get the guts and funds for a micro-electric chopper...
	*WhiteWolf McBride* CEO, TaskForce Technologies Inc. Ottawa, Canada


T-force1	Dec 10 2006, 06:50 AM Post #8
Worthy of the Trax! Posts: 93 Group: Contributing Member Member #97 Joined: July 1, 2006	Actually, it's from an outfit called LaserArts. This kit is designed with the intention that it is going to fly as an RC plane. I haven't really looked at the Guillow's before. I've heard that the Storch kit doesn't fly very well.



T-force1	Dec 18 2006, 03:16 PM Post #9
Worthy of the Trax! Posts: 93 Group: Contributing Member Member #97 Joined: July 1, 2006	It's starting to look like an airplane...



kenchoco	Dec 18 2006, 04:45 PM Post #10
Worthy of the Trax! Posts: 95 Group: Member Member #31 Joined: December 28, 2005	MORE PICS... SUPREME,WHAT RIG DO U HAVE?



T-force1	Dec 25 2006, 01:17 PM Post #11
Worthy of the Trax! Posts: 93 Group: Contributing Member Member #97 Joined: July 1, 2006	A very important part of the plane has been built: (and merry Christmas to all)



T-force1	Jan 26 2007, 01:20 PM Post #12
Worthy of the Trax! Posts: 93 Group: Contributing Member Member #97 Joined: July 1, 2006	Lots of sanding and fitting done. Here are all the major components fitted together:



grumpygrady	Jun 4 2007, 06:02 PM Post #13
Swayed by the Trax Posts: 2 Group: Member Member #273 Joined: June 4, 2007	so did you finish it?



T-force1	Jun 5 2007, 04:32 AM Post #14
Worthy of the Trax! Posts: 93 Group: Contributing Member Member #97 Joined: July 1, 2006	No, not yet! Taking quite a bit of time. I keep getting distracted, but I actually started working on it again. Here is the present state of affairs: Electronics installed (motor, ESCs, servos), stabilizers covered, engine cowls covered, start on covering the wing today. Won't be long now...



grumpygrady	Jun 5 2007, 08:15 AM Post #15
Swayed by the Trax Posts: 2 Group: Member Member #273 Joined: June 4, 2007	looks great i have about eight of the 1/18 scale planes from walmart and am going to try to make one out of wood myself



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