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Offline Balsa Butcher

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Another Take on a Vector
« on: March 20, 2008, 12:31:48 PM »
Vector 40 w/  O'Toole Tucker Cockpit. Power:  Big Art 40 FP. All up weight framed w/engine, tank etc. 37 ounces.  Great Kit! (not an ARF or ARC)  8)
« Last Edit: March 20, 2008, 12:57:46 PM by Pete Cunha »
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Re: Another Take on a Vector
« Reply #1 on: March 20, 2008, 12:57:27 PM »
I like it !!
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Re: Another Take on a Vector
« Reply #2 on: March 20, 2008, 02:01:21 PM »
I also have the kit. Will get around to it someday.
Bruce ::) ::)
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Re: Another Take on a Vector
« Reply #3 on: March 20, 2008, 03:57:06 PM »
Looks cool, Pete! Are you building this one in NM? No wonder it's not done.

Color scheme?
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Re: Another Take on a Vector
« Reply #4 on: March 20, 2008, 04:20:45 PM »
Looks great Pete!

     Has a special ol-timer look about it.....very sweet!!  Look forward to more photos. y1

         REGARDS.   DAVE
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Re: Another Take on a Vector
« Reply #5 on: March 20, 2008, 04:45:32 PM »
I like open cockpits and this really does give it that 60's look, Nice job H^^ H^^
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Re: Another Take on a Vector
« Reply #6 on: March 20, 2008, 04:46:18 PM »
Too Cool, O'Toole!

I have a Brodak Vector laser-cut kit at the same point of construction. Hmmm...will yours need a wing man? Interesting to take a very "modern" design and retro-ize it with some fairly simple changes. It is indeed an excellent kit, as good as ones I have paid twice as much for and very complete. LA46 in mine.
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Re: Another Take on a Vector
« Reply #7 on: March 20, 2008, 05:48:33 PM »
Very cool pete. I like it !
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Re: Another Take on a Vector
« Reply #8 on: March 20, 2008, 07:30:20 PM »
Thanks all:  Clint - Was started in NM, currently residing in CA.  Color planned is Miss Ashley Red and white w/gold trim.  Like my "Stylus" that I think you have seen.
Engine wise - LA46 will be an option but planning to stay w/ the .40 for now.
Design:  Was originally planning to also alter wing tips, stab and vert. fin but after doing cockpit area, realized it wasn't necessary.  Looks like a modern open cockpit sport plane to me, a little like a streamlined "Fly Baby" or single cockpit "Spezio Tu-Holer" (if anyone remembers that design).
Paul:  Great to hear from you again - let me know when you are ready to go flying  y1











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Re: Another Take on a Vector
« Reply #9 on: March 20, 2008, 09:15:25 PM »
Hey Pete....when you are ready to cover can I send mine over too???... LL~

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Re: Another Take on a Vector
« Reply #10 on: March 21, 2008, 09:36:46 AM »
Yo Phil-that looks really sharp.  Just ad a longish headrest piece blending into the vertical fin, a Williams Bros pilot, and the windshield part of a Sig 11" canopy and you will have..."The Look"  8)
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Re: Another Take on a Vector
« Reply #11 on: March 21, 2008, 01:28:40 PM »
Pete, I can't tell from the pic. Is the cockpit completely enclosed, or is that just a windshield with an open cockpit?
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Re: Another Take on a Vector
« Reply #12 on: March 21, 2008, 01:49:43 PM »
Sorry Clint:  Pic is from phone camera - not so clear.  Cockpit will be open, again a-la Tucker Special.  Windshield is made from the front of a Sig WW2 canopy, held in place for the pic w/tape.  It will be clearer when it is attached and the canopy supports are painted, or actually, formed with epoxolite then painted.  Another influence is the "Chevelle" stunter that was published a few years ago.  Next pic I will use a "real" camera  :!
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Re: Another Take on a Vector
« Reply #13 on: March 21, 2008, 02:16:09 PM »
 y1  Pete, it looks real good. The retro look is always a favorite. I'm convinced that the Vector 40 kit is a great starting point for kit bashing. It's a great design that flies very well, so as long as you don't go changing the basic layout, should fly very well when "bashed" to look like somting else.

Here's a case in point. I did this a couple of years ago, but hav en't yet had the time to build it as I've been busy with other projects.

It's a basic Vector kit, bashed into a piped ship for a nice OS .25VF I happen to have.

Again, my take is that, for the price, the Vector 40 is great for doing this kind of modification, and, it does real good as it comes.
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Re: Another Take on a Vector
« Reply #14 on: March 21, 2008, 03:24:09 PM »
Pete:
Add my appreciation to all the other positives you heard here.   H^^  CLP** BW@  I like the modern/retro combination, heck put the RWB stripes on the rudder, exhuast pipes up front and call it a Tucker-5!  At that weight with that power it will definietly perform.

I agree with Johns comments too, the Vector makes a nice starting point for a lot of great kit-bash tangents.
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Re: Another Take on a Vector
« Reply #15 on: March 21, 2008, 04:25:03 PM »
Thanks all - I'm honored. b1  I've been putting off starting the finishing process (burn out) but after this feedback I am ready to strap on the mask, slip on the gloves, break out the tape and get with the program! #^
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Re: Another Take on a Vector
« Reply #16 on: March 21, 2008, 08:46:31 PM »
Quote from: Pete Cunha on March 21, 2008, 04:25:03 PM
Thanks all - I'm honored. b1  I've been putting off starting the finishing process (burn out) but after this feedback I am ready to strap on the mask, slip on the gloves, break out the tape and get with the program! #^

Mask and gloves? What are those for? ;)
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