Winter build project: Wolfgang Matt’s ATLAS

I'm not using retracts, I need to learn to land first and I wont know which way up it's flying.

Well done, John. Have fun covering!

Um! Too many excuses and fine measurements, just stick it together!..... :lol: Otherwise by the time it's finished it would be fodder for the Antiques Roadshow... :evil:

It's a design from 1975 Phil, it is older than me, therefore antique, but hopefully not antiquated

Anyway I did do a little over the weekend.

Of course to retain the flavour of the 70's you're going to need some pink in your colour scheme.

(unashamedly stolen from another forum)



Ohhh suits you sir.

Fortunately they were not that decadent in the '70's. Nice strong manly colours...solid reds, whites, blues. In fact, I've seen some images from the era and I'm sure there was an F3A model sporting tweed and muttonchops.

The Suprafly was from the '80's. Shell suits and Mr Motivator.

Your wing looks really nice, Chris. You must be pleased with it so far?

AlanF wrote: Of course to retain the flavour of the 70's you're going to need some pink in your colour scheme.

Ohhh suits you sir.

Thanks for the inspiration Alan, and as much as I'd like to follow your trend in [strike]garish[/strike] tasteful 80's colour schemes, I think one pink plane on the flight line is plenty, and you beat me to it. I'll just have to console myself with the Blues, whites, and reds.

I wonder if Phil will cover his Atlas in a [strike]beige[/strike] I mean magnolia, being that he is a gentleman of a certain generation that can appreciate the subtle shades.

MikeSeale wrote: Your wing looks really nice, Chris. You must be pleased with it so far?

The other wing is being glued now, so it's beginning to feel like things are coming together, the foam cores being so well cut certainly has helped.

I'll have you know, young Sir, that my latest paint job was a kitchen in Olive Drab. I did not get permission for roundals, but I do have a Mk XI spitfire in the display cabinet.

I've just mocked up the tail fin to see if the lines are looking right.





and I remembered that it was at this stage in Mike's build that he chose to weight it



...so I thought I'd do the same, Mike's weighed in at 465g, mine is heavier at 470g, as you can imagine I was distraught that mine should be so heavy, but then I spied that Mike had not put the back half of his servo tray in, so I removed mine and weighed it again.