Toombstone Labs

Here is a project I did a while back. My uncle was cleaning up his workbench and as a fellow RC modeler he gave me some random wings and fuselages. One of the wings was about the size of the wing on the Slipso400, a small hotliner I found on this RCGroups thread:  Slipso400 . With a few modifications I managed to get it to be about the same wing. For the ailerons, I decided to try a linkage which keeps the servo in the middle of the wing and joins both aileron surfaces to the motion of one servo. The fuselage was built off of the plans provided in the RCG thread. The bulkheads are lasercut from 3mm plywood. The side walls, top, and bottom are 6mm depron. I wanted to make the tail a little stiffer so I shaped some thin pieces of balsa to the profile of the tail. I left a small space in between the two pieces to run a plastic tube to route the push rod for the elevator. After putting in the servo and gluing it all together, I rounded the edges wit...

Back in the spring I started a build of one of my favorite full scale airplanes, the DH-82 Tigermoth. I found plans made by an RCGroups user named Chris3D in this thread:  RCGroups After a busy summer, I was able to finish it a few weeks ago. Everything is made from 3 mm depron just as Goodychrischild, the author of the thread, did in his build (Thanks for the great build log Chris). Overall, the build was pretty simple; the plans were really nice and easy to understand. The only part I had trouble with was the depron bending. The wings weren't bad, they just took about 5-10 mins of slowing bending on a rounded edge. The fuselage really stumped me. I tried bending it a few times but each time I broke the piece. I guess I was too aggressive with the bending. So instead I put some packing tape on one side of the foam and creased the other side in several parallel lines and made a pseudo-bend. The tailplane was pretty simple. I joined the to horizontal...