E*Star models Fi-156 Storch build pics

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The kit arrived last week from Korean in a not so impressive looking box.

The completed kit can be seen @ http://www.estarmodels.com/

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The plan are to scale and there is also step by step assembling instruction manual provided.

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Started building this 3D jigsaw from the wing.

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The flaps supposed to help in STOL (Short Take off landing)

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With 500+ pieces in this jigsaw, you want to have one than one building blocks to work on different parts simulateously.

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The fuselage was put together with only woodglue/clips/rubberband, no idea how best to pin it onto the board.

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This part of the build process is the most motivating!

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This part of the build process is the most motivating!

oops, wrong pic in previous post, and i cant edit my post?

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The motor mount is meant for 10mm stick mounting.

[randomtask]

Nice build man. Looks like this is going to be a tough bird.

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Nice build man. Looks like this is going to be a tough bird.

Thanks
we shall see how well it flies @ BR soon.

[Tony]

Looks like its very well kitted. I like these kind of laser cut kit. You can assemble until almost 80%-90% without glue and then zap them into place once you are sure its straight and true.

What kind of covering are you going to put on it. Seems to me that it needs really to be a painted finish. Art Friend sells a range of water based acrylic paints that adhere very well to plastic film with the help of some plastisizer.

Keep it up.

[CKS]

Yep, this is another laser cut kit, my only complains r the packaging and the (dis)organisation of parts.

Ill be using combo of yellow/gray/army green oracover.
Some of the parts can be covered so yea i'll have to paint them.
Thanks for your input

Looks like its very well kitted. I like these kind of laser cut kit. You can assemble until almost 80%-90% without glue and then zap them into place once you are sure its straight and true.

What kind of covering are you going to put on it. Seems to me that it needs really to be a painted finish. Art Friend sells a range of water based acrylic paints that adhere very well to plastic film with the help of some plastisizer.

Keep it up.

[Tony]

Yep, this is another laser cut kit, my only complains r the packaging and the (dis)organisation of parts.

Ill be using combo of yellow/gray/army green oracover.
Some of the parts can be covered so yea i'll have to paint them.
Thanks for your input

Oracover (not Oracover-lite) will be rather on the heavy side for this size of plane. Have you considered using Cover-lite. Its sold by NTC and looks like the Japanese tissue we used to use for covering planes before the likes of Solarfilm and Monokote etc etc came on the scene. Its heat shrunk like Oracover/Monokote. The only difference is that it does not come with an adhesive coat so you will have to coat the wood surface with the adhesive and let dry before ironing on as usual. Saves a lot of weight this way as much of the covering is over open framework and which does not need adhesive. The finish looks more like doped fabric which looks more scale like than Oracover which has a glossy finish.

If you want to see what it looks like on a finished model, get Mave to show you the Tiger Moth he bought from me. Its finished in Coverlite White and Yellow. It also comes in other colours too. The ones that would be suitable for you would be green and earth.

The best alternative for a camouflage look would be to use Doculam and finish by airbrushing with waterbased acrylic paint.

Tony

[mave]

Hi CKS,
if I may I contribute my 2 cents here.

material optimization: The E-star has definitely optimized the usage of material on the balsa. E-star has probably run the kit through some material optimization software to arrive at the high count of parts with just that stacks of balsa. Which is probably why you will not find all the parts for a section of the plane on the same balsa wood. 500 odd parts on that small lot of balsa, that is a job well done!

laser ID :What I like about the kit is that all the parts are laser ID. So, you can basically strip all the parts from the balsa wood and will still be able to know which section it belongs too and there will be no risk of throwing something useful away.
Also the parts are usually number in sequence. So let take for example the horizontal tooth-pick size balsa stick for the tail stabilizer, they are all labeled in sequence. So, if you have already place for eg E18 and E20 on the board, then what you need to do is look for E19. No need to measure or compare length of size on the plan. Just put the parts in sequence.


right angel: The other thing that I like about the kit is that there is a "notch" to hold every parts together. So, it is not necessary to use right-angle or try-square to ensure 90 degree.