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July 28, 2015 | | 15,624 Views

I crashed the FPV warbird. Here is the epic tale of how it was restored to its former glory.

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August 16, 2015 | | 18,545 Views

FT-22 supersized to 150% constructed of fiberglass skinned foam core. Demonstration of resilience to water - dew landing

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November 3, 2015 | | 11,592 Views

How to build landing skids made from flag wire to protect belly landing aircraft from landing impact damage.

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March 13, 2016 | | 12,367 Views

F/A-18 E Super Hornet with airfoil wings and separate engine nacelles using Flite Test techniques. Free plans included.

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May 11, 2016 | | 30,741 Views

Tips for painting water resistant foam board!

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March 24, 2017 | | 14,036 Views

The Pilatus PC6: Pushing the boundaries with 3D printing and foamboard design. Free plans and build guide.

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July 27, 2017 | 5,845 Views

Scratch Building a solid insulation foam plane which resembles a US Coast Guard C-130.

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October 3, 2017 | 8,994 Views

Looking for some quality FT entertainment featuring Alex and Josh? Look no further. Bare Bear's vs Balloons is here.

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052 Painting a Baby Blender

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Air brush painting

I am getting started with airbrush painting and would like to know a good compressor to get. I would like to have one that isn't loud....

Airbrush Painting

Hi guys, Maybe I have missed it in the videos, but I want to get into airbrushing my flite test models and have a question on methods. What airbrush compressors/paint/sprayers/etc. are you guys using? What should I get to start with? Also when do...

Airbrush painting balsa.

I am working on a PBY Catalina. I am using sanding sealer to get the smoothest finish possible. Do I need to use primer over the sanding sealer Before using Tamiya acrylic? Any problems with adherence? Any tips on the junction between coverings and p...

Aircraft painting and finishing techniques.

My apologies to the moderators if this doesn't belong here. I'm working on refinishing my harbor freight P-51, and after spackling some dents and dings I sprayed the airframe with gloss silver. The results were atrocious to say the least. [ATTACH=C...

Another idea for spray painting

I have this same gun and was busy looking up videos on how to use it with latex paint for my garage when I stumbled onto this video. Besides the gun being cheap and having reasonable quality, I like how he eliminated the need for a compressor. This m...

DTFB Spray Painting techniques

This is probably in the wrong category. Oh well. My apologies. I have a plane designed by @RCSpaceFlight (can you tag people like on Twitter?) and I used it for my science fair project, which was: Which type of airfoil generates more lift: a KFm air...

DTFB Warped after Painting? If it's a control surface, think twice about flying it.

So here is an interesting thing I learned today, which I think is worthy of knowledge sharing. I finished scratch building a new Tiny Trainer, and then painted the fuselage of my DTFB (Black foam board) a couple nights ago. I had the unfortunate exp...