DB kits 1/4 scale Sopwith Pup 2m - Full Flight Review
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- Опубліковано 24 гру 2021
- Finally able to bring you a flight review of a second hand bargain I brought in the UK some time ago, my Laser 180 powered DB kits 1/4 Pup . Paid for it at the start of the pandemic, it was delivered almost a year after that, then just this summer I was finally able to bring it home. So almost two years from purchase to flight, but it was worth the wait ;)
Link below to DB kits and this Pup kit and hope you enjoy watching the video as much as I did making it:
www.dbsportandscale.com/sopwi...
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Incredible model. The builder did a fabulous job. The flying wasn't bad either :) I have 1/4 scale glow, gas and electric and in the summer prefer the glow as it is generally quieter than gas and if the ignition fails you only have to change the glow plug which doesn't happen all that often. The ignition failed on my DLE 30 and it took 8 months to get a replacement. I have the 1/4 scale Balsa USA Sopwith Pup that does not need the flying wires. It was a pretty straightforward and rugged build and flies beautifully with a bullet proof OS 160FX 2 stroke glow engine.
Lovely pup and great flying. Didnt know DB made a pup. Love the sound of Laser. Very cool.
OMG what a gorgeous old bird !! You stole that thing !! Thank you for sharing !
That is one very nice looking and flying Pup, Thumbs up!
Wonderful plane, great flight 😮!
Perfect 🤩. Lovely model and flight. 👍
Absolutely gorgeous model!
What a great model and nicely flown
Fantastic plane and video thanks so much for sharing!
Wow!! What a gorgeous bird 👍👍👍
Beautiful model and great flight video, thanks for sharing Stuart!
Such a beautiful plane and video. Thanks for shooting and sharing.
What a beautiful aircraft! Nice flying too!👍🖖🏻
Great job STU keep the 4stroke mate it sounds fantastic 👍
Perfect, just perfect. And I love Laser engines.
Wow, that's a great looking plane. Very nice flying.
Wonderful morning; absolutely perfect: the model, the flight demo and the weather.
Love the scale details. Cockpit view looks great too. Cpngrats to the succssful flight and super smooooth landing😍
Magnificent aircraft!
Well that is just about as good as it gets! A fantastic model flown to perfection, not sure about the weather conditions though, the engine sounds really good, none of that high pitch scream which does not fit in with a beautiful model like this. I look forward to watching more of your videos, many thanks for posting! Chris B.
Stunning, absolutely stunning…..such a beautiful model finished to a very high standard. The Laser180 sounds amazing, I have same engine in my DB SE5a and love it. Perfect flight on a beautiful morning. Thank you for sharing
Kudos to the pilot. Top notch flying skills. An Ace, no doubt!
Great model and flying Stuart! Fantastic combination with the Laser 180.
Love the video Andries. Really nice work guys!
Groeten, Ralf
Nice video. What a lovely model. Reminds me of the good-old-days around 1990 down the club when every second person was flying a Flair Pup or Magnattila with OS40FS or OS48FS.
Great video Stuart like always, nice view from the cockpit camera , love all your detailed information in your videos
Thanks man.
Perfect flight. Fantastic oldtimer. Great edit. Never boring. Dankjewel Stuart!
Thank you! Yes after months of waiting for the right weather, I think it all worked out perfectly in the end.
I miss our dawn patrol flights. Brilliant model. Hope you had a wonderful holiday.
She is a beauty Stuart and well flown to might i add. 👍🏾
Merry Christmas to you and yours and a HNY.
Hello Startazz, good to hear from you and thank you for the comments and good wishes. Same to you sir.
Fantastic looking model, looks and flys lovely in the air. Always enjoy see what your up with your own models. Hope you had a good Christmas and have a happy New Year.
Thank you Roy and nice to hear from you again. Happy new year to you too over in the UK.
Wow what a brilliant model and excellent demonstration of a classic. A joy to watch on a perfect crisp morning. Thank you. 👍👍👍
Thanks Glyn, yes the weather really made this for me I must say. Just below freezing, bright and calm, PERFECT flying weather.
What a beautiful looking and flying plane.
That is a beautiful model, and the builder did an excellent job. Great flying as well Stuart.
He did, certainly better than I could have done and especially now at this time of my life with kids etc. I'm very lucky!
Nice flight Stuart. The Sopwith is an amazing touch and go plane with those big wheels.
Thanks, and I even found that in a cross wind this model handles it well too, which surprised me for a Pup!
Thanks for that Stuart, a really enjoyable video. You certainly had a bargain there!
It looks great on the ground but amazing in the air, due to your impressive flying skills. You always make it look so easy.
Hey thank you. Yes she is one of these models that looks good flying and standing still 😎 but she is a very gentle flying model, it’s the model that makes it looks easy.
What a fantastic scale pup. I love the sound of that engine. You are so right about rigging biplanes, the easier the better. I have almost finished a 1/4 scale EAA Bipe from Balsa USA which isn’t too bad, but anything to make it easier.
Absolutely beautiful airplane and flight buddy!!! Excellent video on just how scale that we can get planes these days. Certain shots truly make this plane look so real. Thanks for weathering the cold to bring us this amazing video. MERRY CHRISTMAS and HAPPY NEW YEAR 🎄👊🏼
Hey hey Jeff, yes you've got to go out when the weathers like this, and with a camera, the light always makes a good model look even better. Thanks many and Happy New Year to you sir.
Beautiful model , and nicely flown !!!!! I have a third scale pup, which i love flying .
That’s very nice. I had a chance to buy one, but it was just too big to store and transport for my set-up.
What a beautiful video! Love the onboard video :) And the plane flies very nice, keep up the good work.
Hey Bart Happy New Year. Thank you. Hope we get to catch up at an event this year.
@@stuartwarnerc That would be nice! :)
Beautiful bird, beautifully flown on a frosty winter's morm. Thanks for posting Stuart, your passion is infectious.
Hey nice to hear from you, I seem to remember a few frosty mornings in Sydney too so maybe you’re able to enjoy a little of this too when your winter comes round.
@@stuartwarnerc We do indeed get into the minuses in our western Sydney winters, but being a fellow Englishman born with antifreeze in the Blighty blood, it never seems as cold here as it was growing up back home. Blue Skies Stuart.
Wow, amazing dawn patrol bird! 🌄
Absolutely brilliant model and flight Stu! Firstly, I'd say you scored one heck of a deal on that plane, and secondly brother, you crushed it on that Dawn Patrol flight! Thanks so much for the walk around and sharing that gorgeous model with us! I hope you and yours had a very wonderful and Merry Christmas. Cheers my friend and all the best to you from the Mojave Desert 😎👍😁🇬🇧
Hey man nice to hear from you and thank you for the kind words and well wishes, and same to you and yours this festive season! Yeah I waited for months for the perfect weather and finally got it with a crispy dawn patrol ;)
so beautiful!!!
Beautiful!
The old looking warbird looked amazing. The light and frost really gave this video a special ambiance too.
Couldn’t agree more, love shooting and flying in these conditions, you’ve just got to make sure you are dressed for them 😉
thats a prize keeper that one ,,they guy who put it together has done wonders for the attention to detail ,great flight
I'd agree, this is staying in the hanger for MANY years to come, he did a stunning job.
Very interesting and nice plane . The very best wishes for the new year . I finished today my Black Horse Ju 87 1920 mm with 180B
Saito 4 Stroke . Stay save you and your family .
Hello thank you. Congrats on the Junkers, I’ll hope over to your channel now to take a look.
I hope the previous owner and builder of this beauty can see it now, beeing flown beautyfully by you. Thank you for sharing this!
Thanks, actually I sent him the video before I made it live, I told him I'd do one at one point and he was excited to see it. I hope he likes it.
Great onboard shots from her, she is a beautiful plane. Love all the hatches and they way she has been built. Defiantly worth the money. Hope you had a great Christmas Stuart 🎄🎁✈️
I agree fully, except you probably meant to say it definitely is worth the money, instead of defiantly, right?
@@rc-fannl7364 If I could spell I would be dangerous. 🙂
@@DadsRCHangar We can't have that, lol
@@rc-fannl7364 😀
Wow! What a gorgeous model and a great price Stuart! Nice find!
I’d love to see one in 1100mm... hint...hint! 😁
Peace to you in the new year!
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Beautiful airplane
Lovely video, Stuart. I have exactly the same model but powered by a Laser 150 which is absolutely fine for the model. I agree the little sprung steel tabs in the wings do make assembly a breeze. I too bought mine secondhand and for the same price as your's. Season's Greetings from West Sussex!
Then we both did exceptionally well 😉 Thank you Grahame, good to hear there are others out there too enjoying the model as much as I do.
👍🏼Impressive model and nice camera work as well.
Hey Erik, yes I’m lucky to have good pool of talent to work the camera for me in these vids 😉
Very nice! Good flight. I'm building 2 Pups right now side by side...a Balsa USA 1/4 scale and 1/6 scale. Both going to be electric though. Very nice to see how you flew your ship. Thank you.
Thanks. Interesting. 10s set-up?
Okay that does it, I'm going to build a 1/4 Balsa USA Pup! She's a beauty Stuart!!
LOL, well happy to be of service ;)
Heya Stuart and Tom, I just love those vids showing both of you being so passionate about these stunning scale planes with a nice story behind them 👍👍👍 please keep these excellent vids coming instead of the zillion stupid unboxing vids dominating UA-cam these days. Have a great year's end and greetings from Belgium!
Hey man thanks for the kid words and perspective, lets hope we meet at a show this year.
@@stuartwarnerc Yeah I'm looking forward to meet again in 2022!
Fantastic! Thanks for sharing.
Thanks Tony, great to hear from you too. Hope your daughter is doing well in college too.
@@stuartwarnerc Evelyn is doing well and just completed her Associates degree in Aeronautics from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University. We always enjoy your personal and HK videos. Thanks for being an inspiration!
@@tonyaccurso1090 That's great news on Evelyn. I a proud parent when my son wants to spend the day flying with me so with what she's working towards you must be constantly over the moon ;)
@@stuartwarnerc I'm very proud of Evelyn! Enjoy that precious time with your son. They grow up too fast! All the best to you and yours, my friend!
Thumbs up! Awesome airplane, awesome flying, love the in flight cam footage! Well done guys!! I need a WWI plane in my hangar some day!
Yes you do John, yes you do ;) Thank you sir.
Lovely plane Stuart 👍
Thanks, yes I got really lucky with this one.
What a wonderfull bargain
Lovely.
What a great plane at a great price..👍🏽
Lovely
Really enjoyed this Stuart! The timing is quite a coincidence...the next episode on our channel releases Monday morning...and it is a Balsa USA 1/4 Sopwith Pup with a Saito radial. Yours is a masterfully built and detailed model...and you flew it perfectly! Very well done! I loved everything about your video...the time of day, the snow/frost, the on board...just awesome all around! Adam.
Hi Adam, good to hear from you again and thank you. I’ll check out your video, I’m really interested to see how they compare for rigging time etc. I think both are good scale models. Not super scale like Mick Reeves kits but good enough for the majority (myself included) but can be made super scale if desired. And with that Saito, that’s going to be one sweet sounding bird. That’s the one thing that’s missing on mind, a better sound, Laser are great but their song is not as sweet as say Saito or OS.
@@stuartwarnerc Thanks Stuart I would like to get your impressions of our video for sure. Your stuff is so well done...you've been doing it a minute for sure and it shows. The BUSA flew really well...all the big ones seem to anyway. We helped a fellow flyer out with one he built 20 years ago and had never really got checked out on it. His is really nice, but not as detailed as yours. That Saito though...ohhhh man what a sound!!
very nice
Another fantastic plane Stuart, where do you get them from. Truly a beautiful video of this iconic English WWI fighter plane. You fly the beautiful scale which I personally like a lot. Hope there are many more beautiful shots with the most beautiful models.
Thanks Arthur and good to hear from you. You’ve reminded me actually that I need to get some nice in flight stills of the model too.
Hey Stuart, if you ever have discussions with manufactures, please consider suggesting someone bring out a model from the early 90s, the Midwest SuperHots. Awesome all-round sports model.
It’s funny we considered a superhotts in foam for the Durafly ‘Retro Series’ that we released at HK a few years back, but it was felt at the time the market was too limited.
How does the on board camera keep the horizon level instead of rolling with the aircraft? Great effect, thanks for the video.
It’s one of the in camera shooting options with the insta360 camera.
In 40 years of flying RC I have yet to own and fly a scale ww1 bipe - it’s on my bucket list for sure although they are exceedingly rare 😢
Yes it’s worth having at least one. I’ve actually always had at least 1 in my collection pretty much since I started flying, nice to keep variety in the family 😉
Hi Stuart, thanks for the great video. Do you now have any further comments you could make on the rigging of this model, which has collected some criticism from some?
Hello. I I think it works wonderfully well, it takes me less than ten mins to fully rig and is rock solid when it’s done. My only concern would be how long the racket systems last for. Replacing those would be a pain. What issues have others reported?
Hi Stuart, here is a link to some comments on the RCM&E forum (UK):
forums.modelflying.co.uk/index.php?/topic/30965-db-14-scale-sopwith-pup/&tab=comments#comment-519221
Note, the David posting in these comments is not me, just a coincidence. I am about to order one from DB Sport anyway but am interested in any feedback from anyone like yourself that has actually owned one for a time and may have some comments to make on the wing retention and rigging of this model. I see you have a Laser 180 in yours which I will also use, and in fact is recommended for this type of model by Jon at Laser engines in this thread:
forums.modelflying.co.uk/index.php?/topic/50182-static-thrust-to-weight/&tab=comments#comment-918087
DB suggest 90 - 120 4 stroke which does seem a little on the small side given the size and weight of the model, about 15lb; appreciate its not intended to perform like a Pitts but from my own experience I have a 6' span 9lb Mew Gull with an ASP 120 in it which performs well enough (ua-cam.com/video/YrzJ-XgJpWs/v-deo.html) but the Pup is another 6lb heavier, so a 180 it will be.
Ohhhhh yeahhhhhhhhhhhh
I could not have said it better myself ;)
Stuart which propsize do you use with the Laser 180? Btw wonderful model and flight😊
Hi, thanks. Master airscrew 18x8
I hope the pilot is not too sick because he is currently in the toolbox and is not infected with the Corona virus!
Where i live gets fairly cold in winter, but i dont think id be game enough to fly in that temperature.....
You should try it, if the winds are light and you are dressed well, it can be very enjoyable. Days like this are actually some of the nicest you can have for flying.
Which camera'model do you use for the onboard sequences ?
Insta 360 I believe it’s called.
Have just taken delivery of the same kit Stuart, considering the Laser 180. What size prop is being used and what is the clearance between the dummy engine and the Laser, presumably there needs to be sufficient clearance to prevent heat damage to the dummy?
master airscrew 18x8 and as for clearance, not much, its a little tight but I have ducting to force air flow over and around the head of the engine. Not been a problem.
@@stuartwarnerc much appreciated Stuart. Thanks.
I live where the plane came from, if the guy that built it ever wants to learn how to fly id be happy to help
wow what a fantastic flyer you said it's a DB plane I have not herd of a DB kit hear in the states where are they from ??
Hi Jim, it’s a British kit supplier, link in the description.
Nice. That is an awesome model. I cringe when ever I see a vid of someone starting up their plane and immediately pin the throttle and take off. Maybe they warmed it before.. maybe not. All engines need to be warmed up tho
Minus zero?😊
Stewart what are you up to now a days? Who are you working with etc?
Model dev and plane category manager at Hobbyking.
Modello stupendo. Vera creatura nata per il cielo. Splendida realizzazione e buon pilotaggio. Atterraggio dolcissimo e reale. Complimenti 👍👍👍👍😊😊😊😊🖐️🖐️
@@massimomassai3337 Mille Grazie!
Looks fantastic!! What engine?
It had a Laser 180 4 stroke, sadly the model crashed this winter and due to the damage it will be re-built as electric powered.
@@stuartwarnerc nice! Made my 1/4 scale Balsa USA N28 electric. Flies so nice on Power 160, 10S and 20x8 XOAR prop,
@@flyboywbl ha! That’s the exact same motor and set-up I have set aside for this. Good to know, thanks.
@@stuartwarnerc right on! If you run two 6S packs in parallel. You could swing a 24x8 scale prop. I tried with 5S but it was only 700 watts. Looks so nice with a big prop.
The cowling looks wrong ! Or is that just me ?
"First time iv tried to start one in minus zero"
And it started like a champ 😉
You need to use more Throttle cut in the air. You know, Blip the engine Dear boy. Yes, quite.
Слишком много говоришь ....мало паказываешь конструкцию модели и её соответствие прототипу😂!!!!!
Great looking and flying model! Unfortunately, I will be unsubscribing from your channel. This is due your consistent use of incorrect terminology. A Wing Over is a turn where the top wing goes past vertical center. You did not do a wing over. You continue to say "Stall Turn" when it is a hammer-head turn. Your "term" is not valid or correct for the aviation community. I will soon be a 71 year old pilot of real airplanes. Again, love your models but ...... I'll be watching other R/C channels. Sorry......
Hello, thanks for the feedback. I will say that I have never claimed to be an expert in terminology, in fact in this very video you’ll see that I correct myself in camera about that very same example you give, the hammer head. Take a look later on in the video I discuss with my cameraman that what I had been doing was indeed a hammerhead, so then correct it by flying actual stall turns. I’ve been flying for almost 25years, and it’s a constant learning process and I’m comfortable to share that and maybe others learn from that too.