The 'What did you do in your workshop tonight?' thread

[pawnshopmike]

While waiting for some parts for my Laser 115 I decided to start a new project. Opened the box and did a quick check on all the parts. Looks like everything is there.
It takes forever now days to get anything and on top of that the prices are going up fast.

BEAUTIFUL!!

 

[AKNick]

While waiting for some parts for my Laser 115 I decided to start a new project. Opened the box and did a quick check on all the parts. Looks like everything is there.
It takes forever now days to get anything and on top of that the prices are going up fast.

Very nice! That scheme was going to be my spare 91" ARS until I decided to get a 104" Extra instead. That scheme is visible, aggressive, clean, and unique. Great choice. You have my stamp of approval!

BEAUTIFUL!!

 

[Snoopy1]

Very nice! That scheme was going to be my spare 91" ARS until I decided to get a 104" Extra instead. That scheme is visible, aggressive, clean, and unique. Great choice. You have my stamp of approval!

Wasn’t planning to buy a plane but when I walked past the box and looked at picture I just had to have it so it went home with me. Sure like the Skywing plane beautifully built and excellent finish, like the company and especially all the extras.

 

[BalsaDust]

That is simply awesome! Good work!

And yes... sorta. What you mentioned was what it did, except making that skin conform to two convex curves that I wanted to incorporate along that new surface without adding construction planes. This helped give it a slight bull nose look. If that even makes sense. lot of different lingo in separate programs. CAD is so much fun!

What your saying makes perfect sense. In that case I would still do the two work planes and loft between them but I would also add in probably two more sketches intersecting those first two work planes with the shape of the curve you want it to follow and loft using guide rails.

 

[AKNick]

Wasn’t planning to buy a plane but when I walked past the box and looked at picture I just had to have it so it went home with me. Sure like the Skywing plane beautifully built and excellent finish, like the company and especially all the extras.

All the extras and little pieces of ingenuity throughout makes it a happy purchase. The skywing planes are cheaper than EF, not only the buy it now button but the addition not having to buy baffles, fuel tubing, fuel tank, carbon spinner, servo wires, ect... The 91ARS is to date the easiest ARF I have EVER assembled. I'm just starting to open boxes on my SW 104 Extra NG (cowl and wings) and I'm just thinking... wow what a plane.

 

[Snoopy1]

All the extras and little pieces of ingenuity throughout makes it a happy purchase. The skywing planes are cheaper than EF, not only the buy it now button but the addition not having to buy baffles, fuel tubing, fuel tank, carbon spinner, servo wires, ect... The 91ARS is to date the easiest ARF I have EVER assembled. I'm just starting to open boxes on my SW 104 Extra NG (cowl and wings) and I'm just thinking... wow what a plane.

I agree it is nice to get everything with the plan. I just hope that they make something more than just 3D planes because I will be keeping an eye out to buy some thing else from them.

 

[AKNick]

What your saying makes perfect sense. In that case I would still do the two work planes and loft between them but I would also add in probably two more sketches intersecting those first two work planes with the shape of the curve you want it to follow and loft using guide rails.

Lots of ways to do it! Part of the muse point, I guess. What I did was use the cowl radius lines, pulled the line to create a new sketch plane basically and then use a three-point arc line that mimicked the general form of the cowl lines on the plans, deleted the excess. Then blended (lofted) the new line intersections while deleting the old skins as I went to make DSM happy and not crash on me. It didnt like "lofting" to an existing skin loft without deleting one skin halfway through the blend... that took me a while to figure out LOL.

 

[AKNick]

I agree it is nice to get everything with the plan. I just hope that they make something more than just 3D planes because I will be keeping an eye out to buy some thing else from them.

I may have heard that they are working on a high wing... don't know if that was conceptual or actually in the skunk works. They've got to come up with something! Pilot RC = Skywolf, Extreme Flight = TurboBushmaster, AJ = BushHawk? I cannot remember what they were working on, and so Skywing = ???? I cannot wait, but wait we must!

 

[BalsaDust]

Lots of ways to do it! Part of the muse point, I guess. What I did was use the cowl radius lines, pulled the line to create a new sketch plane basically and then use a three-point arc line that mimicked the general form of the cowl lines on the plans, deleted the excess. Then blended (lofted) the new line intersections while deleting the old skins as I went to make DSM happy and not crash on me. It didnt like "lofting" to an existing skin loft without deleting one skin halfway through the blend... that took me a while to figure out LOL.

very true. Lots of different way to do it. I've been working closely with one of the guys at EF and taking his advice on ways to approach things. The loft command is very powerful but at the same time so easily breaks if things aren't right.

 

[AKNick]

very true. Lots of different way to do it. I've been working closely with one of the guys at EF and taking his advice on ways to approach things. The loft command is very powerful but at the same time so easily breaks if things aren't right.

Oh you lucky duck you! Nice to have that kind of help, I'm jealous!!