Build Log: Sig Clipped Wing Cub Kit - Electric Conversion

I decided that I needed a pandemic project in March of 2021, something to do while I was waiting for the vaccine roll out. I'd always wanted to build a kit model from a box of wood, so figured that with all this stay at home free time, I'd build one. This is my first build a kit plane that is not laser cut, and my first time working with Ultra cote covering. The build started in April of 2021 and finished just a few days into the new year of 2022.

This is my build log and first flight of a Sig Model 1/6th Scale Clipped Wing Cub. Build time was roughly 8 months of evenings, some heavy weekend work, and lots of learning along the way. I definitely should have started on an easier model, but for me, the difficulty was half the fun.

The total number of hours spent has been lost, I don't know. Somewhere between 400-500 probably. I fully understood there wasn't a lot of documentation in this kit going in (I think it's roughly 12 pages and doesn't exactly give you a play by play, you just have to know). I did find some instructions in old internet forums that gave me some ideas of what I wanted to do, could do, and so on. In the end, I built it as shown. While there are definitely some things I would have done differently/would like to re-do, I also would just like to fly it for a bit and enjoy it.

If you're thinking of building one of these gorgeous planes, maybe my build log serves you in some way. In ways to do and not to do, I'm sure.

I fully recognize the frames move by quickly. I had over 1000 photos to share of my build log and wanted to show as much of the process as I documented. So, in order to show as much as I could, and not make it a 40 minute video, I set the frame rate to 1 photo per second. If you wish, you may slow the video down on your own (and set to whatever music you like) for your viewing pleasure.