{"id":6753,"date":"2020-10-23T13:49:16","date_gmt":"2020-10-23T17:49:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/volareproducts.com\/blog\/?p=6753"},"modified":"2020-10-23T13:49:16","modified_gmt":"2020-10-23T17:49:16","slug":"new-product-tweety-pup-embryo-short-kit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/volareproducts.com\/new2024\/new-product-tweety-pup-embryo-short-kit\/","title":{"rendered":"NEW PRODUCT – Tweety Pup Embryo Short Kit"},"content":{"rendered":"

Before I took my 12-year-break, I flew with all the old-school Cloudbusters from the 80s and 90s.\u00a0 One of those was Don Campell and this is his 1997 design, the Tweety Pup.\u00a0 Ever since I drew up Don’s Tomahawk Embryo, I have wanted to do this model, too.\u00a0 It is a sharp-looking, stand 20 feet away, almost-semi-scale model designed as a play on the Cessna o-1 Bird Dog.\u00a0 The wing and vertical are very similar to the O-1, and the fuselage is similar, but lengthened significantly.\u00a0 And, since I just did the Bird Dog as a Dimer, it was only natural that I tackled the Tweety Pup (plus, I just lost my everyday Embryo).<\/p>\n

For this build, I decided to go back to basics, building like a “normal” or even new modeler.\u00a0 No striving for lightness, building with “regular” wood, heavy plastic and wire, and a off-the-shelf plastic prop.\u00a0 In addition, I am testing a new tissue, a possible replacement for Esaki, that comes from Japan.\u00a0 This tissue has a nice feel to it, has a definite shiny side, the back side is a little rougher than Esaki (you won’t get front and back confused).\u00a0 It is only marginally heavier than Esaki.\u00a0 People are working to get this in production (if people like me give it a thumbs-up) and we’ll see in a few months if this can be done.\u00a0 I’ll talk about the tissue more later on.<\/p>\n

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The Build<\/strong><\/p>\n

This build was kicked in the pants when I lost my DeHavilland Discard at the Cloudbusters contest a couple weeks ago.\u00a0 We have one more outdoor contest this fall and I decided to have something to fly.\u00a0 I quickly traced Don’s plan and laid out parts so I could start building.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>This is built entirely out of 1\/16″ balsa.\u00a0 I designed this for quick building – almost all of the tail feathers’ parts are pre-cut, and all of the upper and lower fuselage cross pieces are pre-cut.\u00a0 This removes the tedium\u00a0 of measuring, cutting, fitting – just build the sides and pop out the crosspieces and glue them in.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a> \"\"<\/a> \"\"<\/a> \"\"<\/a>The wing goes together in the traditional manner.\u00a0 I do include trailing edges with built-in gussets for the ribs.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Back to the Tissue<\/strong><\/p>\n

Again, I am testing this tissue.\u00a0 So I decided to use several treatments on the tissue, in application and finish.<\/p>\n

For the tail feathers, I used bare tissue for the fin (except a small print) and the horizontal is covered in fully printed tissue.\u00a0 I cover these dry and flat.\u00a0 when they were finished, I sprayed them with clear Krylon (or whatever the spray-can clear is that I have on hand).\u00a0 They are not shrunk with anything; I do this to resist warping (covering variation #1).<\/p>\n

The wing was covered with bare tissue on the bottom and full-printed on top.\u00a0 Again, these were covered dry, gently tautened during the gluing process, and then sprayed with water to shrink.\u00a0 This tightens the tissue, but less-so than covering with damp tissue.<\/p>\n

The fuselage was covered differently – I covered it with damp tissue.\u00a0 Since I didn’t know how this tissue would react, the flat sides on the fuselage allowed for a reasonable test.\u00a0 I was pleasantly surprised.\u00a0 The tissue dried nicely and pulled taut – I am very happy with the results.\u00a0 Even on the arched turtle decks, the results are great.\u00a0 Sometimes tissue pulls really tightly and causes stringer to dip under the stress.\u00a0 This tissue shrunk just the right amount (cue Goldilocks and Baby Bear).<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>The noseblock and wheelpants were wood covered with slightly stretched tissue.\u00a0 I do this by putting glue stick on the solid wood and rubbing damp tissue over the curves.\u00a0 This worked well, as expected, although I did have one stretch separation – which is typical of this type of covering (at least for me).<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>I sprayed the finished wing with clear, and the fuselage with white Design Master White.\u00a0 It is flat white and so I sprayed some of the gloss clear over it.\u00a0 While I didn’t over coat any of these with the spray, I didn’t hold back (for lightness).\u00a0 It all looks good and the tissue handled it all well.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a> \"\"<\/a> \"\"<\/a>I finished up the build with some heavier plastic than I normally use for the windscreens and side windows.\u00a0 Of course, along with heavier plastics, came minor frustrations of trying to glue plastic to balsa.\u00a0 I got through it without too much damage to my psyche.\u00a0 The plane was finished with full 1\/32″ wire on the landing gear (usually, I use 0.025″) and a off-the-shelf plastic prop.\u00a0 The model came out at 22+ grams, not too heavy for an Outdoor Embryo – that’s satisfying.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>I test flew the model in my back yard yesterday, and am happy with the potential.\u00a0 Of course, I need a larger field (hopefully, that will come Sunday).\u00a0 Here’s what happens regularly in my back yard.\u00a0 Note:\u00a0 planes don’t get up there without FLYING.<\/p>\n

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UPDATE<\/strong>:\u00a0 After a few trim flights, I got the model sorted out.\u00a0 It climbs out well on a 7″ prop with a loop of 3\/16″ and Maxed on its third official flight, winning the Embryo event!<\/p>\n

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Before I took my 12-year-break, I flew with all the old-school Cloudbusters from the 80s and 90s.\u00a0 One of those was Don Campell and this is his 1997 design, the Tweety Pup.\u00a0 Ever since I drew up Don’s Tomahawk Embryo, … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6752,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-builds","category-products"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/volareproducts.com\/new2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/volareproducts.com\/new2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/volareproducts.com\/new2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/volareproducts.com\/new2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/volareproducts.com\/new2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/volareproducts.com\/new2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6753\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/volareproducts.com\/new2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/volareproducts.com\/new2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/volareproducts.com\/new2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/volareproducts.com\/new2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}