That is a beauty!!
I love how you painted those wings!!
Mind if I express a personal opinion?

You could add some color or graphics to the nose, just to break the red color.
But like I said, it's just my "taste"...

I wish one day I could produce such a finishing....

Marcus

Anyone can do what I do. Please remember I have over 50 years experince.

 Needs some red or something on the stab/elevator.

 Just a "two cents"...

WOW!!

Looks great!!

Surprised me with the canopy outline.

I'm sure there will be other additions.

Multi Kudos!!

Charles

A yellow lightening bolt or a "sparky" type logo on each side of the nose.  Looks nice Bob.

All thats left is ink and clear. The total project time spent so far is 26 days. I hope this flies as good as it looks. Weight at this point is 56.5 oz.

Its all inked up and ready to clear in less than a month. Crist uses Steadliner pens so yesterday I went to artmart to see if I could find those. They didn't carry them or at least had discontinued carrying them. So they sold me the equivalent which is Micron. I was doing this out of laziness in not wanting to clean my Radiograph pens. When I got home with it I chickened out and gave in and cleaned them up. At this stage I didn't want to make a mistake and ruin a months work. So it was back to old school.


Now before anyone chimes in with it needs this or that, if you would like to come here and do it I am up for it. Part of appearance points are given on mistakes. I learned this by seeing very plane airplanes on the front row. Very plane equals less chance for error. So If I make it clean and fairly shinny it should do well at the NATS. If it flies good and I can fly it.


If not it flies as is except with clear. As it sits now with wingtip weight its 58.1 so I am looking at 59 oz. 4 ounces off my mark. I am not sure if I would have taken more time in the finish if I could loose those 4 ounces and even if it would mater. The most important part of this experiment is the weight in the tips. The beam wing has considerably less weight in the tips when you roll the plane side to side.

Given today's wood and finishing requirements I am not sure its possible to archive a fully fueled large stunt plane in the low to mid 50TYS. The first Crossfire at 60 flies very well and has a great turn. The second one with more wing area and less wright should be great.

Trust me it looks better in person. For some reason the camera is not showing the true red color.

I have learned so much...
Man, it looks so clean and the paintjob flows over the model.
After seeing those pics, I feel like building....

Marcus

Robert,

Looking forward to your next build.

Your images aren't JPEGS?

How are you holding your hatch in place?

Colors look good to me!

Charles

If you know what you are doing, quality work can be done.   The plane looks great.    I remember trying to replace a window on the house.  After spending most of the day on it a construction worker who builds houses came over and took over.   Less than an hour and he was done and it looked better than the other windows of the house.   And I think Sparky stated that work management is what get a lot of things done in short time. 

Hi Robert, congrats for your wonderful work! I would like to take a look at the battery/engine bay.... can you send some pics from other angles?

Rodrigo Mansano
Brazil

I might paint the inside black

The way this is mounted you can move the battery up or down back and forth. Right now I am making a second holder for both planes for the zippy batteries.

It's raining so no painting. I might as well do all my electrical work today. I need to make up a second power supply for my charger and I will do that today as well.

Assuming the wing is straight and is in trim. If the plane flies outboard wing high upright and inverted the horizontal CG is too low and the same can be said the other way. If its down upright and inverted its too high.

All the math in the world can't tell you what each plane is going to be. So its always a trim experiment. Asymmetry and wing tip weight are only to compensate for the weight of the lines. Let the fire begin.

Think I know why you wrote about starting a fire, but not sure...
Our C/L models are not easy to trim.... Do you use some kind of static process to try so check the horizontal CG?
Thanks!
Rodrigo

No static process. I just guess and go fly. I know that the piped airplanes had some trim issues because of the pipe hanging under the wing so they lowered the leadouts. So I just eyeball what I think will work and go fly. It's usually pretty close. This all has more to do with thrust line placement. The reason I said start a fire is the designers will come on and say I am wrong and prove it with some math equation not many have a clue as to what it is and in the end it works out my way anyway. You can build 2 planes exactly alike and trim them alike but they won't fly alike. Do you know why? It's because of how the balsa grew and how and time of day the paint was put on and a 100 other diffrent variables.

Assuming the wing is straight and is in trim. If the plane flies outboard wing high upright and inverted the horizontal CG is too low...

Do you mean what you seem to have said?  Namely, that if the CG is too far off center toward the wheels, that the airplane will fly with the outside wing tip too far from the ground when the airplane is inverted? 

Remember a few years ago of all the pictures of planes and similated planes hanging from doorways, walls or even ceilings trying to show us how planes should be rigged. 

Do you mean the pictures I posted as a joke of the airplane with the lead hidden behind the stab?  The reason I did that was that people were arguing, based only on their intuition, about something that could have been settled by a simple experiment.  Nobody did the experiment, so I did a phony one out of orneriness. 

Is this not actually "Vertical" CG ?