In this DC-3 build part 2 I am going to share with you how to make the horizontal stabilizer, steerable tail wheel and servo platform. I use separate servos for moving the rudder and tail wheel. They will be mixed together so they will have co-axial movement. You will need 5mm carbon tube with 100 cm length for horizontal stabilizer spars. I also use ready made plastic hinges for the elevators.
The last cartoon RC plane had surprisingly very good feedback from my audience, so I make another model. This time is Mig-21 Lancer in fatty or cartoon style. The original plans was making Spitfire, but change to Mig-21 because it won the poll on my channel's community tab. This Mig-21 is looks huge with 105 cm wingspan but only weight 1050 grams. It uses the same electronic as T-2 Buckeye. It has detachable landing gears, so you can switch mode easily on field, you can choose to take of run with wheels from ground or just tossing the plane into the air.
About 2 months ago I held a polling on my community tab, to decide between Douglas DC-3 or DHC-6 Twin Otter, the winner for the next twin motor RC model plane is Douglas DC-3. This project should have began last week but I ran out of 3mm foam board. I mainly use 3mm depron foam or polyfoam for the material and 5mm for the formers. The wingspan will be 2200 mm or 87 inches. This project will be divided into 3 or 4 parts, from start to finish and fly. In between each part I will make 2 new projects, so it will not too boring on just 1 subject.
The sole purpose of building this RC airboat is that I need a rescue boat for my RC seaplane. Just in case the seaplane has malfunctioned in the middle of the lake or failed take off or crash on landing, I could rescue it with RC airboat and bring back to the shore. The airboat plans is quite simple but still looking scale. The material is also depron foam 5mm the same material I use for building RC plane. The model is modelled from the real airboat, it is an 18 foot Sportsman from 1000 Islands Airboats from Wisconsin, USA. It's trully a scale model but like semi scale, because I simplify the parts for easier build.
Sometime ago there was a comment in one of my videos about request a cartoon style of fatty RC plane, but that time I was not interested for making that type of model, because I like scale model. Then about a month ago my friend brought his fatty RC plane on the field. When I looked at that plane I thought it's a challenge for me, so here it is I made a 1000mm cartoon RC plane, the model is T-28 Trojan. The model is entirely made from 3mm polyfoam or depron foam with 5mm foam for formers and spars. This cartoon plane can fly with sufficient power plant, after under powered on maiden flight I will test fly it again on this weekend with bigger prop and motor.
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Julius Perdana [a.k.a Julescrafter] is a self-taught graphic designer and 3D modeler of architectural animation. Despite a background in architecture, he began his career as a graphic designer for a printing company in 2001. Having co-founded two small graphic design companies he now fully works as a papercraft artist and an online publisher. Paper modeling is his hobby since he was a kid back in 1992.
