Hello

Scott · Post by **Scott** » Tue Feb 16, 2010 12:57 pm

Hello,
Just signed on here with the Forum.I have an RC Trainer(that I
bought already built),and an RC Top Flite Sea Fury(still in the box).
I want to start building Balsa & Tissue Planes,and have 3 Guillow's
kits.The Cessna 170,the Bird Dog,and the Skyraider.
Scott.

John G Jedinak · Post by **John G Jedinak** » Tue Feb 16, 2010 4:20 pm

Go for it, my friend...you may never return to RC again......Luck JGJ

Scott · Post by **Scott** » Tue Feb 16, 2010 5:25 pm

Thanks John.Looks like this forum is a great place to
see how-to info on building & covering.

Xanadu · Post by **Xanadu** » Tue Feb 16, 2010 9:03 pm

Hi Scott, nice to see another Canuck floating around here.
What part of the country you hail from?

TopFlite Seafury..............nice. One that is on my list for one day.

Scott · Post by **Scott** » Tue Feb 16, 2010 9:53 pm

Xanadu wrote:Hi Scott, nice to see another Canuck floating around here.
What part of the country you hail from?

TopFlite Seafury..............nice. One that is on my list for one day.

Hi Xanadu,
I'm in Ontario(Niagara Region).I want to put the Sea Fury in
1950's Royal Canadian Navy markings,HMCS Magnificent.

dbcisco · Post by **dbcisco** » Tue Feb 16, 2010 11:29 pm

Welcome Scott. Models and RC go together well. I like building them to fly RC even if I never get them out of the house. Just the engineer in me I guess.

Phugoid · Post by **Phugoid** » Wed Feb 17, 2010 9:28 am

Hi Scott,

The guillows kits are fine, just throw the balsa away and carry on!

Serious if you want to make them fly you've got to be in for remaking the odd part or sheet of parts out of new decent wood, the thing is the kits have so much else going for them especially the simple to build designs and the value for money.......

I'd go for the bird-dog first, you'd have to do pretty badly not to get a floater even with heavy-ish kit wood.

Good luck

Andrew

Scott · Post by **Scott** » Wed Feb 17, 2010 9:33 am

dbcisco wrote:Welcome Scott. Models and RC go together well. I like building them to fly RC even if I never get them out of the house. Just the engineer in me I guess.

Hi dbcisco,
Thanks for the welcome.I checked out a Youtube video of an
RC Guillow's Cessna 170 flying,pretty neat looking plane.

Scott · Post by **Scott** » Wed Feb 17, 2010 9:34 am

Phugoid wrote:Hi Scott,

The guillows kits are fine, just throw the balsa away and carry on!

Serious if you want to make them fly you've got to be in for remaking the odd part or sheet of parts out of new decent wood, the thing is the kits have so much else going for them especially the simple to build designs and the value for money.......

I'd go for the bird-dog first, you'd have to do pretty badly not to get a floater even with heavy-ish kit wood.

Good luck

Andrew

Thanks for the advice Andrew,I will start with the Bird Dog.