"Kit Bashing" What You Got??!! Midwest Models "Lil'T" Sailplane

I have posted so many of mine here that I won't bore everybody by posting them again, but three of my favorites and a picture I haven't shown before. (You can find them, along with many of Kim's on the internet.) Somehow they find their way there through no effort of mine.

My infamous scratched out P-38 and a flaps thing made from the horizontal stab from a crashed R/C plane.



And my best and my worst.............



How about just bashed.  ebay that I passed on.

Kim wrote:

GallopingGhostler wrote:

Kim wrote:
Actually, I like the still life behind the aircraft. It looks dated, would expect Maud and Farmer holding his pitch fork upright.

Thanks George...as kids, we piloted a lot of bicycles, wagons, and sleds down this great old street.

Agreed Kim.  Our kids enjoyed the same street.  Dead end, grade.  Sleds in winter, go-carts in summer.

American Gothic.



Sorry, cold winter day with snow. RX-7 caught up......nothing to do................

That BLUE type color...... sets-up the bash.. like shootin' feral hogs.. oops.. sorry.

Hi Kim,

I bashed a Q500 ScatCat kit.
Called it the Spice Girl. ( guess when I built it )
Modded nose for a 6oz tank and 'torsion' wire LG. (like an independent suspension. )
Magnum Pro.25 was plenty of power even with a big goo deflector tube.
Double width flaperons with wing mounted Fut133servos. Built up tail with large el/rud.
Like you say, with the 'large' wing...flew great.
The flaperons were fun to play with, quite the 'ground effect' on a low winger...
Spun great.  (should have named it after a figure skater !)
No pictures,
But I can google images of the Spice Girls if you like...

Doah, the snowplow went by, again...
That was easy, flagged a nice Ram with a Fisher plow. $20 for two passes. (We used to make cash when I did that 30yrs ago, and know how heavy wet snow is...)
Anyways,
The demise of my Spice Girl, almost matched their careers. In winter.
12 inches of ice (drove out there, drilled icefishing holes.) Beautiful sunny winter day. (~freezing)
Great flying, several planes. (no fish)
Last flight on the SG, I shifted my boots, slipped,
I fell flat on my ass. Not sure how I held on to the transmitter, but it was wrong.
She went in vertical. Poor 'Maggy.25', did not survive. They call it Hard Ice, for a reason... Radio survived...
Could be a sort of simily type metafor, or weird pun here, but, I am not that good.
But, I do appreciate,
Sharing stories with you,
Dave

P.S. I had enough crap back then for calling it Spice Girl. Do not need it anymore. It was just a sweet performer with a flawless solarfilm skin, a 9-4 that sang with the wind....





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Thanks for that interesting model Kim.

Here is a pdf file of Lil'T from Flying Models magazine:

http://www.thermalrider.com/nost/fly.html

Interesting story, Kim, and a little of your earlier past with kit bashing a glider. I thought your power pod approach was innovative, also. That was some time back when you flew that one, still got it?

Me, I'd probably take the least path of resistance, remove the glider balsa nose cone and placed the engine there. Once the engine cut, would provide a little drag, but not much. (It is interesting on rubber powered aircraft, the free wheeling prop actually added more drag than if it were stopped, but looks cool in doing it. (Could be conceived to do dethermalizing activity. I think this is why some of the higher performance rubber powered's used a folding prop instead.)

I still have an unbuilt House of Balsa 2x2 (2 meter) glider, the ancestor to their later 48 inch 2x4 glider, that it was based on. If I ever built it, would put a 1965 OS Max .10R/C on it and may be a 4 oz. fuel tank for decent loitering.