Archive for February, 2012

The Return of the TigerKitten (7)

Feb 23, 2012 | Building model airplanes, Building Planes from Kits, dope and tissue covering, Premier Balsa Kits, Return of the TigerKitten, silk and dope | 0 comments

The fuselage is beginning to look like it is really going to be part of an airplane, but there are lots of things left to be added, or stuck in place, or sanded, before we can think about heading for the field. You guys who know me already won’t be surprised to learn that the [...]

The Return of the TigerKitten (6)

Feb 16, 2012 | Building model airplanes, Building Planes from Kits, dope and tissue covering, Premier Balsa Kits, Return of the TigerKitten, silk and dope | 0 comments

There’s a lot more work to do on the fuselage, but now we’re getting to the parts I find most interesting. Let’s build a top deck. When I designed the TigerKitten over twenty years ago, I used a combination of dowel pegs and a neat little custom made tube-and-wire latch to hold the top deck [...]