Hello Everyone

[jhtitan]

Hello,
My name is Jon I live in MO near St. Louis. I have been lurking for a bit, reading everything I can. I have found "The One" well for me anyway. I am going this weekend to look at a pop-up camper frame. it has wheels and is tow ready. So I may have a base to start building on this weekend.

I am a tool and die designer I work primarily in Solidworks but a bit in Autocad and most recently Draftsight. I have already started modeling my tear in solidworks and will get the design complete before I start building.

I have also been designing and flying rc planes for a few years (Foamies) and I have built my own CNC router that will be used in this build as well.

I wanted to do this for a few months now but the wife wasn't on board with the idea. Then we went camping again, we had a blast and she wants to start going more often. Well after that I brought it up again and she is totally on board with the idea now.

Thanks for supplying me with tons of useful material to fuel my newest obsession lol

Jon

[GerryS]

Welcome to the insanity

It's a little haul, but the CRA us coming up in just a couple weeks. Check the Midwest forum, you don't have to have a finishes camper to join us

That's how I started, all those years ago!

[Mary C]

Welcome Jon, there is lots of information on here that I am sure you can use. when you get that trailer you might as well start a build thread. you might want to show us your designs too! and yes it is a way to go but it would be worth it if you can get over to CRA. I wish I had had the opportunity to go before I started my build. Good luck!!!

Mary C.

[Junkboy999]

Sounds Great. Always a good idea to get the wife on board first. You will love it better then tent camping.

I like to see your toys. I build wood RCs and just got into foamies for indoor flying. I also do low rez modeling of RC planes (20k poly limit) in place them in RealFlight RC flight simulator.

I’m collecting parts bit by bit to build a CNC machine for cutting RC planes my self. I want it to cut wood ribs and have a hot wire attachment for wings cores. Here is a picture of two of my RC in the Sim. A-10 still in work. The foamie is one modeled off my real foamie.

[jhtitan]

Thank you Gerry and Mary, I will look at CRA and see what I can do to swing it.

Junkboy, you can see some of my stuff at: http://www.youtube.com/user/rcFFBloodyMicks I haven't updated with any new videos in a while since I now work full time and go to school full time.
good looking models. there is a couple videos on there of my CNC router too, mostly testing of the drive train upgrade. I mostly build in dollar tree foam board most recently. stuff is great for building great flying planes on the cheap.

first step is get the trailer base, which I hope will be this weekend. then to finalize a design and tweak my CNC bed for better accuracy and repeatability. Then we can really start building.