I love biplanes, especially Tiger Moths. This is my 3rd Tiger Moth build. This one is from a GWS Pico Tiger Moth kit (slope glider version).
I’m adding full-strip ailerons on both sets of wings, and planning on using a 1700kV ‘Blue Wonder’ motor, on an 800-850 mAh 2-cell LiPo.
I’m using these 5/16″ brass screw eyes to attach the interplane struts to the wing mounts, and to support the flying wires.
I’ll be updating this post as the build progresses.
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- Landing gear fairing installed
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- Landing gear fairing materials – balsa & coffee stirs
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- Landing gear and rubber band in place.
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- Close-up of a rubber band stop
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- Rubber band ‘stops’
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- New landing gear (the first set was fugly.)
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- Landing gear test fit
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- Each half of the LG slides into the aluminum tubes
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- Landing gear tubing
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- The Air Hogs nose wheel becomes the Moth’s tail wheel
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- I stole the nose wheel from a defunct Air Hogs Tomcat
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- HStab bracing wires – rear view
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- HStab bracing wires – side view
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- HStab bracing wires – top view
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- Bamboo reinforcement on the horizontal stabizilers
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- Ready for maiden (sans landing gear)
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- The flying wires strung through the cabanes and the brass screws on the interplane struts.
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- Close-up of the ailerons.
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- The upper and lower ailerons are attached via piano wire
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- I used the stock struts as a guide for getting the strut angle and spacing correct
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- The starboard struts are in place
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- The wing strut mount, seen from the back.
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- Wing strut attached to bottom wing
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- I found these coffee stirs which are the perfect size to replace the floppy stock wing struts.
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- The basic red-and-black paint job complete.
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- Front cabane struts are reinforced with thin bamboo strips
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- Thin strips of bamboo add reinforcement to the wing where the rubber bands will go.
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- The wire tube snapped into place.
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- Wing wires will pass through the cabanes within small tubes
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- Top ailerons hooked up
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- eMax 8g aileron servo is mounted atop the ‘gas tank’
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- Using a square to assure the tail is vertical
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- Gluing the tail in place
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- The black and red paint job coming together
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- Test fitting the cowling
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- New, top-side battery compartment
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- Motor mount moved down