Well, after quite a few painful delays, I finally got to these planes and finished them. They’re pretty much built per plans with the exception of the adjustable leadouts, weight boxes, and enhanced elevators. I did a sky blue plane to match the SIG stock colors, a yellow one because I had two rolls of yellow Monokote, and a pink one because my wife said she’d learn to fly if I built her a pink plane. I bought a SIG Buster to build for her, but she backed out, so I found myself with a fresh roll of Neon Pink with nothing to put it on. So that’s how the planes came to be. And let me say that, with 35 years of experience using Monokote, I can say with absolute certainty that the Neon Pink Monokote was the worst thing I have ever worked with. I also did something that I’ve never, ever done. I copied the plane trim scheme from the box cover for the planes. I just cut strips of Monokote trim sheet to match the box cover photo.
The planes all have OS .25 LA-S engines spinning APC 10-4 props with 4 ounce clunk tanks. I used the same hardware that would have come with a SIG kit. This gives an elevator throw of ± 30 degrees. The yellow plane weighs 28.1 ounces, the blue 28.7 ounces, and the pink one is a pig at 30.4 ounces.
I couldn’t figure out how to frame the finished picture so I did a couple:
And one picture with the 1/2A version in it.
Unfortunately, due to uncontrollable circumstances I won’t be able to fly for a while. I did get two flights on the pink plane because I finished it first and wanted to get it in the air. After all, if I was going to crash one, the pink one is obviously the first to go… But after those two flights, I didn’t want to fly it again and possibly crash it, and thus not be able to take a picture of all three together. Now I’m free to crash all I want…
Mark