Category: Return of the TigerKitten

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 [...]

The Return of the TigerKitten (5)

Jan 21, 2012 | Building model airplanes, Building Planes from Kits, dope and tissue covering, Premier Balsa Kits, Return of the TigerKitten, silk and dope | 1 comment

The TigerKitten fuselage construction is about as traditional  as it gets …two identical side frames built up from balsa strips with a few shaped pieces in critical areas…but we get to combine state of the art stuff because those shaped pieces are laser cut. We could also use a more traditional adhesive like aliphatic resin glue [...]

The Return of the TigerKitten (4)

Jan 02, 2012 | Building model airplanes, Building Planes from Kits, dope and tissue covering, Premier Balsa Kits, Return of the TigerKitten, silk and dope | 0 comments

On this airplane, the primary structure of each wing panel consists of all the ribs, the leading and trailing edges, the upper and lower 3/16″ sq. spars and the spar web inserts, and the various pieces that make up the wing tip assembly.  So far I have built the and right panels in turn flat [...]

The Return of the TigerKitten (3)

Dec 14, 2011 | Building model airplanes, Building Planes from Kits, dope and tissue covering, Premier Balsa Kits, Return of the TigerKitten, silk and dope | 0 comments

It’s taken me a bit longer than I would have liked to get this blog entry posted…I bought a new computer and have had to go through the drill of learning a new operating system. Now that’s done and we can get back to building model airplanes. There are a few more details to finish [...]

The Return of the TigerKitten (2)

Nov 17, 2011 | Building model airplanes, Building Planes from Kits, dope and tissue covering, Premier Balsa Kits, Return of the TigerKitten, silk and dope | 0 comments

All the good things I promised a few months back are happening. Two of my friends and fellow model builders have formed a new kit production company, Premier Balsa Kits, and their first offering is a laser-cut short kit for theTigerKitten updated for brushless motors and LiPo power. I have agreed to build a new [...]

The Return of the TigerKitten

Jan 18, 2011 | Building Planes from Kits, Return of the TigerKitten | 1 comment

Those old Berkeley kits are not the only nostalgia trip I have been enjoying lately. Many of you not-so-old model builders will remember the TigerKitten, a design I created over twenty years ago to be an electric powered model you would never have to make excuses for. That project was part of the quest on [...]

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