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    3D So I have a Carden Fetish.....

    Made a little (yeah right) road trip yesterday and brought home a well used 40% Edge and a never finished but ARC 41% Giles.
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    3D So I have a Carden Fetish.....

    Working on yak..... Rudder tray set up and installed. Flight surface swervos installed and hooked up. All Hitec 5955 swervos for this one.
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    Sport Where to get foam for foam core wings????

    I was planning on a typical wing tube. Not sure what size yet though. I've always thought a 50cc pattern plane would be cool but no fiberglass fuse for me.
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    Sport Where to get foam for foam core wings????

    The real airplane hauler is a 8ft long truck bed with a camper shell. :)
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    Sport Where to get foam for foam core wings????

    That's my daily driver 2003 Vibe. I'm a Vibe fan, I currently have 4 Vibes.... That one has 282K miles on it and will be sold as soon as tax season comes around on Craigs list. (They'll be lots of people looking for a good running cheap car here in a few weeks!) :) I just found a cherry one...
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    Sport Where to get foam for foam core wings????

    Found some.
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    Sport Where to get foam for foam core wings????

    I try and get along with everyone, unless they are a jackass.... then I just try to avoid them if I can! :)
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    Sport Where to get foam for foam core wings????

    I don't fly glow anymore. I haven't in years and don't really miss it. I also have interest in electric this big so it has to be gas.
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    Sport Where to get foam for foam core wings????

    I have enjoyed my venture into scratch building the past couple of years. I enjoy building as much as flying up until the point where I start installing equipment. Like Chris I build mostly profile stuff, and rebuild Cardens too. The pattern plane will be something different. I think we...
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    Sport Where to get foam for foam core wings????

    And here are the plans for the Extra 230.
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    Sport Where to get foam for foam core wings????

    Info about the lightning is here: http://www.eurekaaircraft.com/plan_kits/lightning.htm I contacted the designer and he emailed me the plans. JAG has them printed so it appears we are going to build a couple. Eureka has kits available, and that would be much easier, and probably even cheaper...
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    Sport Where to get foam for foam core wings????

    Larry that's really cool! Good on you for doing some short kits too! I've had a blast cutting a few short kits for my buddies on the bro site, but I am not going to venture into anything that complex like making fiberglass fuse! :) In fact that's why I need some foam. I plan to cut a couple...
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    Sport Where to get foam for foam core wings????

    I have come up empty with a local place to get white foam over 2" thick. I have a few scratch build projects that have foam wings and some other foam parts. Anyone have a supplier for foam?? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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    3D So I have a Carden Fetish.....

    Motor is mounted with a Crappy Cut Kits motor spacer. Landing gear installed after the rudder was hinged.
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    3D So I have a Carden Fetish.....

    True but the cowl is painted just have to mask off and paint the red. So it's not as far off as you might think.
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    3D So I have a Carden Fetish.....

    Thanks Cam it's not perfect but I build err rebuild in this case to fly not look at! :)
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    3D So I have a Carden Fetish.....

    ARF'ed
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    3D So I have a Carden Fetish.....

    When this Carden gets covered I'm crying uncle for a while on covering.....
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    3D So I have a Carden Fetish.....

    I've covered a few other projects the last two weeks but this pile of empty ultracote rolls is hard to look at....
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    3D So I have a Carden Fetish.....

    Second wing covered minus the yellow stripes.
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