IAR.80 Build

@fredvon4 wrote:
and confusing is why your, supposed to be inboard wing half, doesn't have the flap/aileron structure...easy fix looks like

This is actually by design, I build my wing first, cut off the ailerons later. I find it easier to build the wing straight that way.

As tempting as the "flipping" option sounds, it's a no-go: I'm using CA.
So I guess I'm building two airframes now

I am happy to say my CA confession has not inspired an angry mob to appear in front of my home wielding pitchforks and torches
Thanks to Fred and Andrew I am now building not one, but two of the same models at the same time, which is a first for me. I have rough-finished the two wing sets, narrowly avoiding building three right wing panels by mistake. I invested around 2h into each panel, and there are easily two more hours in each of them, not counting the covering. I am pretty happy how they turned out, but I've about had it with building identical wings over and over, and I'm ready to move onto other parts of the build(s). Sadly, next comes my least favourite part of any build - the ailerons. I think to save time I will investigate building them out of trailing edge stock rather than building them up, which is always labour-intensive and extremely fiddly.

Not sure when will the next update be, as my side projects keep distracting me. Or maybe this is the side project

Hello Friends,


looks like I haven't posted for a while.
I spent my summer flying full scale:


flying models:


building guitars:



and doing tons of other things, but I've finally got back to stick and tissue:



The fuselage on the IAR 80 has a really funky shape and I actually built 3 before I got one I was happy with. I've made a half-hearted attempt at drawing panel lines on it. The wings are secured to the fuselage by magnets. There's a sort of a frankenbee at the front, thrown together from good parts of not-so-good engines. The weight is a pretty good 213g, with just the bottom fuselage and the canopy missing.

And here is the finished model. AUW is about 225g.
I will not be doing the twin for now, but I have a spare set of wings in case I need them.

Thanks guys,

today, to celebrate the closing of the season, I maidened the model:


The takeoff was a bit dodgy, but it it's a good flyer once it picks up some speed.
Full disclaimer, I crashed it on the second flight. It's ok though, if I learned one thing around here, it's that they fly better the second time around. They don't look better, but they fly better.