Martin,
I think you need bigger rubber bands mate
Martin,
Hi Mike. Thanks for the kind offer, but my Elf is fine. There is a tear in the covering repaired with a bit of diamond tape, but that is inboard of the apparent missing section. It does look peculiar in the photo, but I think what we're seeing is a reflection of the wing tip of the other model.
The Elf is mine, but the other two models in the photo belong to Robert. The 'Goblin' is quite old - one of the originals I think. It has the 'finger box' thing underneath the fuselage that is supposed to allow a more powerful throw, but I don't think it's desirable - is that present on the new plan?You have two of my favourite models in the photo, I fly my Alula (Evo) and Elf more than all my other models put together. You can fly them nearly everywhere can't you!
PS have you built the Goblin already?
Well that's a new one on me, I've always been a Frog lover - I've probably read the Frog book cover to cover on numerous occasions too I wonder how many more I've missed
The excellent House of Frog site has most of the small rubber, rubber scale and some of the glider plans, but is short of most of the power models and all the control liners. If you Google FROG you will get lots of stuff about the plastic kits but sadly not so much about the flying models. Leaving aside the rubber models and the famous RTF Interceptors, off the top of my head I know of 13 F/F power designs (Cirrus, 45 Mk I, 45 Mk II, Janus, Vixen, Nimrod, Tutor, Strato-D, Zephyr, Tarquin, Fox, Firefly, Powavan), 11 gliders (Diana, Fairy, Fortuna,Junior, Petrel, Prince, Skylark, Vanda, Ventura, Vespa, Wren), 15 C/L (Aerobat, Attacker, Chimp, Condor, Gladiator, Tempest, Hornet, Mirage, Mosquito, Hurricane, Talisman, Vandiver I, Vandiver II, Vanfire, Vantage) and two R/C models (Jackdaw and Mustfire) but this is not meant to be a comprehensive list. A lot of good designs there and over the period from the 1930's to when they stopped producing flying model kits FROG had some good designers working for them - Judge, Buffery, Vanderbeek, Fletcher and Walpole amongst them. The kits were good quality and the models always flew - what more could one ask? I built many of them first time round in the fifties and sixties and, besides the Tarquin, have five other electric R/C versions in the current fleet - Zephyr and four of the rubber designs, Witch II plus three double sized ones, Mamba, Tom Tit and Widgeon.Igull wrote: ↑27 Jul 2018, 19:44
Well that's a new one on me, I've always been a Frog lover - I've probably read the Frog book cover to cover on numerous occasions too I wonder how many more I've missed
I did check the House of Frog site to see if it was a con - and there it was - not That did surprise me !
Cheers
Neil
Not a chance now that you've dissed my special jigsaw jointsIf poss, any chance of a more oblique fus join Neil please, the jigsaw joint on the Pulstar was mostly an end-grain butt-joint
Hi Gordon