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  1. fencelake

    Scale Balsa USA 1/3 Scale Super Cub Kit " NIB "

    After interior paint, which should happen today or tomorrow. I'll go ahead and mount the engine. I had to buy mounting bolts for it, and hopefully they're long enough. I guess if they go all the way through the blind nut and I'm using high temp lock-tite.... that's all I need. Another...
  2. fencelake

    Scale Balsa USA 1/3 Scale Super Cub Kit " NIB "

    The next big step will be painting the interior, but first I had to go ahead and mock up all the support tubes. The support tubes in the full scale are all green, and the interior is white. The instrument panel in the full scale is a more modern square panel, which I custom made in Adobe...
  3. fencelake

    Scale Balsa USA 1/3 Scale Super Cub Kit " NIB "

    So a little update. I've been doing the tedious interior work. I created the chair back for the rear seat and planned out the floor installation. Because my electronics and batteries will be below the cabin floor I had to plan how to connect the seats, namely the rear seat to the cabin floor...
  4. fencelake

    Dual Fiji Bottle Fuel Tanks? Anyone?

    Awesome! Thanks for sending the pics
  5. fencelake

    Dual Fiji Bottle Fuel Tanks? Anyone?

    That would be awesome if you have pictures! Do the tanks feed as a "Y" to the engine?
  6. fencelake

    Dual Fiji Bottle Fuel Tanks? Anyone?

    Yea! I guess it does work!
  7. fencelake

    Dual Fiji Bottle Fuel Tanks? Anyone?

    I'm building a 1/3 scale super cub, and I'm thinking instead of having my 1 liter fiji bottle fuel tank sticking into the cockpit I was thinking about daisy chaining 2 500ml fiji tanks together up forward so that they're not exposed into the scale cockpit. Does anyone have any advise or...
  8. fencelake

    Scale 180" C130 Project

    whaaaooohhhh..... this is so awesome!! I love the engineering on the flaps! Well done!
  9. fencelake

    Scale Balsa USA 1/3 Scale Super Cub Kit " NIB "

    Yea, and I guess since the elevator moves as one unit rather than independent like an aerobatic plane if one freezes then the other one isn't going to overcome it anyway... And really I'm not going to do hardcore maneuvers with this plane anyway... okay! so 1 servo for the elevator! I'm only...
  10. fencelake

    Scale Balsa USA 1/3 Scale Super Cub Kit " NIB "

    So, I got my landing gear built. Buying those landing gear was a great idea. It was easy to just bolt them together, and of course, I had to mock it up! It's going to be a real bush plane! Here's a photo of mine and the real one.
  11. fencelake

    Scale Balsa USA 1/3 Scale Super Cub Kit " NIB "

    Oh man! That Saito's going to be great on the J-3, especially if the cylinders stick out a little bit. I think that will be plenty of power. I've been watching a lot of youtube videos of both the Super Cub and the J-3 and several of them are using the G-62 on floats, which adds weight and...
  12. fencelake

    Scale Balsa USA 1/3 Scale Super Cub Kit " NIB "

    Yes! You're exactly right! There's a note on the plan. I can't forget that!!
  13. fencelake

    Scale Balsa USA 1/3 Scale Super Cub Kit " NIB "

    I tied a string to my rudder control horn to see how that was going to work and I may have to add a little tubing at the rear to avoid rubbing on the fuselage. I also am testing with my screwdriver what it will be like accessing the different servos from the access panels and nothing else...
  14. fencelake

    Scale Balsa USA 1/3 Scale Super Cub Kit " NIB "

    I've had a little spare time this morning to work on a few things in the fuselage. Planning out the interior build, electronics layout and access once complete is a little tricky. I've decided to install a plywood floor all the way forward instead of using the plastic that came with the kit...
  15. fencelake

    Scale Balsa USA 1/3 Scale Super Cub Kit " NIB "

    Over the past few evenings I've been painting the landing gear. The reason it's taken a little time is because it's so cold I've just done a coat and then left it overnight, but now the finish and color has come out just right and I'll be able to assemble the gear. Standby for tundra tire...
  16. fencelake

    Scale Balsa USA 1/3 Scale Super Cub Kit " NIB "

    So, finally... a little lesson... So I cheated a little bit and ordered the 1/3 scale cub gear, which I'm glad I did because I just have to bolt them together instead of purchasing a bunch of silver soldering materials and equipment... The landing gear on the plane are green to match the...
  17. fencelake

    Scale Balsa USA 1/3 Scale Super Cub Kit " NIB "

    I bought a nice rudder pull/pull setup from Taildragger. The rudder and tailwheel will be driven by 2 servos... it's going to be a pretty robust system... I trying to decide how far back I want it in the fuselage. On the full scale plane there's an access door on the starboard side and that...
  18. fencelake

    Scale Balsa USA 1/3 Scale Super Cub Kit " NIB "

    Here's a few shots of the interior of the aircraft I'm replicating. You can see that compared to where the door opening is the seats are right there... so they aren't way down inside. The other thing is that all the interior tubing is green. I'm mocking up the interior and then will paint the...
  19. fencelake

    Scale Balsa USA 1/3 Scale Super Cub Kit " NIB "

    I also started laying out the interior. I had to build the floor for the cargo area using light ply, and this will be stained later. I put in the sidewalls in the cargo area, and then tried to match the floors and seats with photos from the plane I'm replicating. It's a little more tricky...
  20. fencelake

    Scale Balsa USA 1/3 Scale Super Cub Kit " NIB "

    The next step for the weekend was to put down some fiberglass cloth in a few places, not that I don't trust my construction, but uh... I'm all about over engineering! Haha. So I added fiberglass cloth to the firewall and to the areas where the landing gear and tailwheel attach. My whole plan...
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