Making Template Plans - Quick Tip | Flite Test
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- Our main goal here at Flite Test is to get people flying airplanes as cheap as possible. With a little extra work, you can make your own reusable plan templates for easy DIY scratch building!
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Like so many others, I got started in RC because Flite Test finally made this hobby accessible and affordable while taking away the fear of crashing. I can't begin to tell you what an honor it is to have an opportunity to give something back to the Flite Test family. Thanks for allowing me to be a part of this journey Flite Test, I'm truly humbled and blessed.
This is EXACTLY what i love to see from Fite Test. More videos like this are great. Thank you guys
agreed
I think the great thing about making foamboard planes is just how quick easy and fun of a process is... and there is no where near the same amount of fear of crashing a foamie than a balsa model! Flitetest has made this hobby so much more accessible!!!
Thanks, Josh, and a big Thank You to Dan!!! These plans are much easier to match up than the older ones. I usually use the paper and trace it on the foamboard, making dotted cuts through the paper into the foam, and then connecting the dots. Keep it up!
Perfect timing! I just bought my first batch of foamboard to start my first ever build!
Thank you so much for making the hobby so affordable and easy. After 6 years this video is helping me building my first air plane.
Thank you guys
I love the direction you guys are taking at flitetest. Finding ways to get everyone into the hobby whether they have the money or not. Your passion for sharing flite with others shines through. Keep up the good work. Also it was great to see you guys at the AMA convention california.
Hey guys, great tip video! We love that you are always encouraging others to get into this family friendly hobby. As always, your team is a huge inspiration to the hobby. If only this amazing group of people was around when I was a kid... O.o
I love what this company stands for nothing like helping anyone get in the air
I UM just got out of the woods lol I just got into this after wanting to for 25 years and having kids that youtube now I am hooked on this...I printed some older plans I guess and did not get the alignment marks, I just took a little longer followed good continuation and made a few extra measurements and everything fell right into place, got a mustang and a viggen underway...I'm having a lot of fun Thank you guys...8) now for the electronics...
Building static models for now, that way when I get the gear, it will be simple 8)
FT thank you this helped so much after the last episode i was hoping you would revive your episode quality and you did you made one of the best episodes in these last few months thank you so much.
I use my DLP Projector and lightly hot glue the Foamboard on the wall. Use a digital caliper to scale the image to match the scaling on the plans. SO easy to quickly trace out a new peace when I screw it up. That's how I built my FT Cruser. :)
Nice
its funny i just started my first ever build from the scratch plans and was thinking that this sort of vid would be perfect! you beat me to it before i could post on the forum! thanks for being awesome guys :D
Hello fellow builders. I'm working on my first FliteTest airplane. A Baby Blender.
I did not want to do the template transfer thing so I picked up a bundle of 100 lbs 8/12 X11 card stock. Normal printer paper is 20 pound. 100 lbs is heavy business card paper.
Then Printed Baby Blender and Power pod right on the card stock. Worked great! Anyone wanting to try this. Ether 80 or 100 pound paper 8 1/2 X 11 will work.
Thanks Josh and the FliteTest team having a blast.
I have to say that the plans are very nicely done and while some say it may hurt sales.After cutting a few planes I've decided to opt for a few speed builds,because it is easier but also because how you guys support the sport;)
i find making a rough cut then sanding any curves makes a much nicer looking curve
I never thought of making poster board templates. What a great idea. I have been using a pin to mark all of the corners and curves, then connecting the pin holes. This basically ruins the plan when I am done.
AWSOME! exactly what I needed! Thanks for the videos ya'll, keep it up!
Great tip Josh!
I've been waiting for a video like this. I haven't had much luck scratch building by myself since I made things harder on myself so I got frustrated real easy.
Something I've done to make things easier is taking the full size plans to Office Depot (they're close by) and having the full size plans printed on one sheet. It usually about $3 per page for black and white, but it's worth it to me to avoid piecing the tiled pages together.
Great video. Someone had already clued me in on Sponz's process. Another tip they should mention is taking the full plans to Kinko's. If you print them in black and white they cost about 4 bucks a page; color is something like 20 dollars a page. If you are pressed for time like I am, it's the only way to go. The other tip is you have to use really sharp blades or you get an uneven cut.
Great Job Josh, really helpful
I like this method, last few builds I spray glued the templates right on the foamborad, only thing is that it's hard to remove sometimes and sometimes I miss a cutaneous have to reapply to find it. This is much better.
Awesome templates!
Any plans for a regular-size Corsair? That plane is by far my favorite. I have the Spitfire, and I've built the Mustang, I'd love to add a Corsair to that mix
I would really like a 300% kraken, that would be so cool! i hope we'll see that in the future :)
how do you guys scale up the models while keeping the reference lines intact? I want to build the guinea pig but not to the scale of 58" wingspan, but rather 108" like in the watermelon video...
Seems like if you scale the drawing, you scale the important reference points as well....
I'm going to replace my FT Racer soon but I tell you this summer when I'm at Flite Fest I'm buying a few speed build kit for those cold winter evenings.
Right on time, i was struggling with some plans, because im a begginer dont know how to do it well. Thanks!
Thank you, this was awesome!
Hi Josh and the whole FliteTest team.
I'm just getting started with fixed wing aircraft but i have a lot of multirotor experience. Which scratchbuild do you recommend in respect of ease of building, ease of flying, versatility (3ch, 4ch) and maybe even looks, for a beginner?
Preferably with the new template plans.
Thank you and keep up the great work!
without going to the extent of an article as suggested. I just wanted to leave a comment here about the ft 22 free downloadable plans. In the most constructive kind of way I just wanted to mention that maybe you guys could check these plans, because when they are taped together there is a bow on the paper which in some cases causes the builder to put the plans together incorrectly. Sometimes the lines for the cut out slots will be out of alignment. I've been a modeler in RC 4 a while in these scratch build plans and speed belts are really neat looking. I especially think I would like to try this Corsair because I had just purchased an old balsa Guillows kit that looks like it is close to being the same size. Cool stuff you have here. Just wanted to help.
My first attempt to print plans of yours. I have a Hp color all in 1 printer and when I tried to print out the plans and then checked them against your 1" scale on top I could not get my printed copies to match your scale i.e. your 1" scale was only 7/8" on my copy and no matter which copy of your plan (4) I printed out they all came out 1" = 7/8" and I had no way to adjust my copy magnification to for example 105%. Any suggestions will be appreciated. Otherwise I love what you guys do and just bought your Cessna 150 Commuter kit to build. Thanks Richard
+FliteTest I'm having drone problems. its mainly the motor. the quad is a X11C and I was wondering if u know how to fix it.
great job XD I love your channel....good work
Can you please make a nano foam obstacle course ! Keep up the great work guys your awesome!!
Well---- that does work! Thx Dan
This is kind of what I do. Instead of cutting it out again on posterboard, I laminate the pieces after I loosely cut them out and then trim it up after they are laminated. This allows you to still see the lines and writing on the plans and they last as long or longer than posterboard.
awesome but were do i find the foam? (i live in Australia) +FliteTest
Hey guys! Great video to clear up some small details! I'd like to ask if you could point me in the direction of proper foam board from Amazon, as I live in South Africa and DTFB isn't available here. Otherwise how would depron work for these builds?
Josh; Nice Video On Template Plans -Quick Tip ! Thanks Dave B. Illinois
Great video! I was just wondering if you could make a video on fpv for beginners. I have been wanting to get in to fpv for a long time but I dont understand all the different frequencies and so on. Thanks!
Quick and helpful. One thumbs up is not enough.
Amazing video
you guys are great!
what softwere do you make the templates on to them print?
please make another video! you guys are awesome!
Hi l have the plans for flying wing with camera mount l need to know if l can by just this part plywood camera mount pre cut ?
Since it's winter, you guys should make a flying snow shovel!!!
Great tips video Josh! This made me think of a new product line for your store: Precut (laser cut) Scratch-build Plans made of posterboard. Could be mailed in a padded envelope, making for minimal shipping. What do you think?
+TheAdkFlyer10 or a light plywood or balsa so that you could use a hot wire to cut it. Thats one of my biggest problems, getting my cuts to be perfectly angled and straight.
+the 142 Having made a few from plans. I'd be happy to pay the same amount for a template kit instead of a speed build laser cut foam kit.
+the 142 Not going to hurt sales, you don't buy "speed build" kits because you need a better template. After you cut out about 10 scratch builds you realize that the fun doesn't really start until you get out the glue gun!
+TheAdkFlyer10 Great idea! Would buy :)
+TheAdkFlyer10 Great idea. Just a guess but I guess it would cost about the same to buy the poster cut-outs. Then they have to create a whole other process to create the poster-board cut-outs. If they can't sell the same volume it may not be worth it. If I'm going to order anything, I'll just go ahead and order the kits, but that's just my take.
Thank you for the video.
I have completely fallen in love with scratch building. Same with my kids. I have 4 planes so far with the corsair next on my list. Soon I will slowly make them fly because in the air is where they belong
Amazon has foam boards also in A4 size. Once the plan is printed, will the individual pieces fit in A4 foam board?
I'm trying to laser cut the plans for bushwhacker at my school but the scaling is so messed up am I clicking the wrong download from flattest tiled?
I love you guys!
Could you do a review and flight on the Blade 200 QX? I'm looking to buy one and I want your opinion on it. I really love your videos. Thanks!
awesome i recently bought a ft twin sparrow but i didn't put it all the way together because i built it before putting electronics in so a few days ago i bought 2 more because the previous ones wings folded after a rough throw so now i have one for a chuck glider and one for full rc this video is going to help because i might need to replace some parts based on that im a begginer in this hobby
thank you for the help
i can use this for my rc plane! thanks!!
So useful thank you
You guys should make a updated video about comparing different FPV goggles and show all the specs for them too and the best set ups and beginner setups.
Hey there guys! I have a suggestion, I propose that you do a review or 'testing' with the DJI phantom 3. I think it would be really interesting to see a video of your experience with the phantom 3. Thanks :)
Excelent, just one thing im confused about,. first you showed glueing the cut out plans onto the foamboard, then then shortly afterwords the plans were no longer glued to the board...
Does anyone know why you cut around the lines????? Really confusing...
What I do as soon as I fall in love with a new FT Model, I get the plans, rearrange them so they fit on a smaller space and go to a local copyshop and get them printed out on posterboard. This way I don´t have to have two layers of paper!
There is a lot less work if you print the plans right onto paper sized card stock. no gluing paper to the card stock or poster board. just cut out the parts after you tape the printed sheets of card stock together, :) been doing this for making wood working templates for years.
Hi flitetest I have a qeustion the plane that you sad in the video I want to make that one but I don't have enough money is there a cheaper version but in the same shape
I glued the plans to poster board and cut them out. Traced onto foam board with a pen. What I discovered on assembly was that everything was slightly oversized because of cutting on the ink line. Your method will solve that mistake
but how do we print the exact size of the plans that it is suppose to be like
I use the repositionable spray adhesive, spray super light coat to the plans and put the plans directly on the foam board. Then I cut through the plans and foam board, peel the plan off the cutout and discard. Wastes more paper than this template version but is less work and very easy.
Will these plans work in balsa and sheet board?
What are those planes I saw you guys holding at the beginning
Great tips. I would like to see you guys make your plans not only in Letter format, also in A4 format for your European builders.
+Henk Hatzmann Could this be why i always have alignment issues as i print in A4?
+Henk Hatzmann The tiled plans are universal. They are designed to work on U.S. Letter (8-1/2 X 11 inches) and A4 (210 X 297 millimeters) without any scaling issues. All you need to do is make sure that you print to actual size or 100% scale and it will work for both. This format for the tiled plans evolved from the Flite Test community on the Flite Test forums. If you have any ideas or suggestions to help improve the free plans, you can join the discussion here:
forum.flitetest.com/showthread.php?11770-Rearranging-FT-plans
What thickness for the foam board is recommended for building an RC plane?
They build using Adams readiboard which I believe is 5mm in thickness.
I want to get into the hobby of scratch building but I can't find foam board or depron in the UK at a reasonable cost do you/how many of your builds are able to be made from cardboard as the store next to me gives me their 5mm (thick) cardboard boxes for free and they have a ton of them.
UK have thousand shop were have foam board, but come to thailand and no found anythink airplane shop, only idiot RC car shop and here not have anythink airplane foam or parts, no motors,no foam,no anythinks. england have easy have many many many shop and internet shop were can buy all parts.
I thought of mounting my phone to my airplane then using another phone to Skype the one on the airplane , handy fpv 😂😂😂
What type of foam do you use? I can't find it in Flite Test shop.
If you haven't found the answer.. they use Adams board. It's 1 dollar at dollar tree or you can find a equivalent foam board for $1.27 right now in the back to school supplies.
hey flight test. with one of the skratch builds but a nuta-bullet or another type of mini-blender motor to power it
Spray adhesive? That sounds pretty messy, though I've never used the stuff. I've been making them out of card stock which is nice and thick. I can easily hold a template to the poster board while I score around the edges with a blade. Once the plan is outlined with score cuts it's easy to put the template aside and finish the cuts. If you try and cut all the way through with the template still in place, it's easy to cut through the template by mistake. You say the plans using this method are reusable, but I've found that regular printer paper plans get messed up too easily which is not a problem with card stock.
keep it away from clothing, fabrics, or carpet....it's quite sticky
I've tried printing your plans 3 times, in 3 different scales, and I cannot seem to get the measurement markings to scale properly... Meaning, the "inch" key is either slightly under, or slightly over an inch long... any tips?
+AimlessMoto What program are you using to print them with? I would highly recommend using Adobe Reader for the best, most consistent results. In the Print options under Page Sizing, make sure you select either Actual Size or Custom with a value of 100%. I always use the latter. Never try to print the plans directly from your browsers built-in PDF viewer.
I have been using Adobe Daniel Sponholz . I tried the print sizing, still a hair off.
+AimlessMoto You've probably already noticed but ... Adobe has a print "actual size" button in the print menu below the "fit" button. Also, it doesn't matter at all if it's the correct scale as long as all the parts are printed to the same scale.
@@ZonkerVA i prin traight same site what i looking pdf picture, right top have print download and bush print then printer software can my brother laser printer, select normal,fit it,scale and scale has percent can change if need but i uses normal, come actual size good print. tiled A4 pdf work well, all other format no work anythink, how make biggest and real size.
good video
What is the Size of Depron sheet...?
Please telll
Dying for a boeing767 30mm edf kit or plans, the available freewing airliner is just too big for my liking and expensive with a 6s battery, I would like to stick with my 4s 2200’s
I would like to see Josh show how to use tape to protect kit planes same as ED (experimental airlines) maybe before they are cut out.
What is the paper size?please tell us.
you guys doing a video about the AMA expo?? saw you in a video from nitroplanes
Could you do a mini F6F hellcat and or Japanese Zero? Then you can streamer battle.
What should be the paper size
How are you guys printing pdfs full size
Can you guys do a (good first EDF jet) review?
Hi, great work, best channel, what foam you used in video?
+Jorge Galan It's Flite Test Foam, which is essentially the same as what you can buy at Dollar Tree. It's often referred to as DTFB or Dollar Tree Foam Board. The actual name of the material is Adams Readi-Board.
Josh! where are the new plane? the V-Tail one!
What foam board are you using?
Adam's readi-board, you can find it at the dollar tree
Can you guy do an axn clouds fly review, it's like the bixler but it has a lot of aspects of other planes in it and it's slightly sportier, I'd just like to see your guys' opinions on the plane
Thanks
+Flynn Asher Check out Bruce on Xjet or RC Model reviews, he's covered the AXN in great detail.
gordon238 Yeah hes the main reason I bought one, I just want to see the look on peter, Alex, Josh and Josh's face when they fly it
What kind of paper should I print? A3 or A4
Khang Dương Tuấn An A4
What is the metereal do you use to make your airplanes
+david almeida It is called foamboard. It's 5mm thick extruded (not expanded!) polystyrene laminated with paper on both sides.
thanks
Wish I had the machines you guys use for cutting. So much time spend cutting manually.
I would cut them manually but I buy the kits they sell just to help support the great videos they put out every week
I can't stress enough how much of a time saver the speed build kits are. I printed plans and scratch built five Flite Test planes before I bought my first speed build kit and I will never be printing plans again. Its a great way to support their business and I would say it cuts 2/3 of the build time.
+csman77 yes but when you live in europe
I would buy them as well.. But the shipping Coates to Europe! Wow!
+Rcbif See my top post on printing out the full plans. I'll NEVER print out and cut tiled plans. It takes several hours to cut and piece the tiled plans together. Just head over to Kinkos with a thumb drive and they will print on a plotter for 4 bucks a sheet.
please test the cheerson cx-10 mini quadcopter
You guys don’t post the link to the plans