The tricked out Banshee is coming along great, I can’t say what it resembles except some kind of a Formula 1 Goodyear racer but not a scale model. If you had to choose a design, I would call it Mid-wing Cosmic Wind or Toni.
For Example:
Wing,
Moved the out board tip rib inboard 1/2” and added a tip weight box.
Added half ribs to the wing structure to eliminate wing covering sag between the wing ribs. Also added 1/16” X 1” balsa from the leading edge, again, to promote a smoother airflow over the wing at the leading edge.
The bell crank is now a suspended unit, you can use a 3” or 4” bell crank (I recommended 4”) for slower controls with the added advantage of force to move the control surfaces.
1/32” vertical grain balsa at the trailing edges to build a warp resistant structure using the iron on film covering.
Fuselage:
This is where I done the most work, the outline of the fuselage has made it really easy to make it look anyway you want it to, I choose to make it look like Goodyear Racer but not any particular one, but a combination of the different parts of full scale designs I like, Shoestring, Cosmic Wind, Toni, Owl and so on, besides they look really Super “COOL”.
So I could save my kit for a future classic build, I built up the fuselage out of 3/16” balsa laminated together with epoxy glue and cut out the outline of the fuselage, wing opening, stab cut out, lighting holes. My plan is to sheet the fuselage sides with 1/16 balsa set a 45 degree angle to the trust-line, the the reversing the the 45 degree of the sheeting on the opposite side of the fuse, light but super strong. The fuselage doublers are now 1/16” plywood.
Stabilizer & Elevators,
I’ve increased the size of the Stabilizer and left the size of the elevators almost the same but the overall it’s 25% of the wing area (I’m considering building them up to save some weight) but we will see.
Later,
Mikey