I’m building a lightweight Stryker for my son-in-law. It’ll be his first plane; we’ll see how that goes.
This one is along the lines of my other light Strykers – small Blue Wonder motor, 10A ESC, 2″ balsa elevons and lotsa pop bottle plastic.
He’s a hot rod car guy, so I’m trying to give this one a little hot rod flair, with a classic ‘crab claw’ flame job and some scallops on the trailing edge of the fins.
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- The vertical fins are cut from 1/4″ blue Dow fan-fold foam
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- The flame templates
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- The fuselage and underside are painted black
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- The first flame traced onto the wing
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- One wing flamed out
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- Both wings finished
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- Scalloped vertical fins
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- Motor mount is a square of 5/16″ aircraft plywood.
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- The motor mount is attached to the wing/fuse with Gorilla Glue
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- Here’s the plane with its guts hanging out, prior to finish.
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- The finished plane
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