One of the best scratch building thread i came across. Mr Ayub Khan has used packing thermocole and made this beauty Here is the build thread

This is how it looked in the beginning


He traced it out from the PC on a Flimsy Plastic sheet



It looked like this  



It looked like this in the end



Construction

http://vimeo.com/50467490#at=0

http://vimeo.com/50468352#at=0

http://vimeo.com/50469584#at=0


Details

Wing span :....... 50 inch
Fuselage Length:...45 inch
Power :.......... .Electric
Test Voltage :... .11.1v (3S)
Maximun current :....40A
Maximum Power :...........470W
Motor :........... FA 3015-7t
Prop :............ 11X3.8
ESC :............. 40 A
Battery :......... 11.1v 3 Cell Li-Po 2200 mAh 25C
Accessories :.... 2= 9 gram Servos. 1= 17 gram servo
Flying Weight:... 1210 gram including everything

Cost List:

Foam material...........=free
Umbrella rods...........=free
Sandpapers 2..........= Rs 30
Hooks...........................=100
Wood stick.................= 30
Artificial eggs............= 20
Reflector taps.............=250
White glue...................= 50
Magic depoxi glue..........= 90
Plastic for canopy.........= 30
Nut bolts........................= 20
Steel rod for landing gear=10
Wiper rubber...................=20
Total........................=Pakistani Rs 700.  Indian 382

flight video

http://vimeo.com/50448169#at=0


Thread is worth the journey

Exceptional build! Beautiful

Our man Mr Ayub Khan

AMAZING!!!! :clapclap: !!

Awesome.. Really A Great Man.. Hats-off .... 

Hats off sir... You are awesome... 
Great piece of art

Need to learn a lot from this guy..

"Use what you have rather than complaining that I don't have the right thing"

absolutely stunning... 

@santhosh-r  well said.
we have a lot to learn from this guy. nothing is impossible when you put your heart and mind towards it.

If this isn't inspirational for all of us, I don't know what is. A lot of people produce scratchbuilt models out of thermocole on this forum, however, I dare say that no one has achieved such superlative finishing in scale.

My apologies to all those who consider my post an effrontery.

Edit : Downloading the videos now. Mesmerised!

+1

respect!

wow! does anyone know what film he used on it??? the black stuff? and what did he use to make the decals??

@aniket: juzz see the videos you will understand..

Gusty, thank you for introducing Ayub Khan here to a larger group of hobbyists. He is a village guy where he has no access to fancy RC products but he is still able to build an amazing RC model out of household items like toothbrush, water bottles and many items which we all simply throw away. A true aeromodeller and a very humble guy.

Here is his one other model he built sometime ago.

An AJ Slick 

:O is this guy on the the forum???!?!?!?!

Is there a build video on rcpak I believe it requires registration, did someone already viewed or downloaded plans video

Ahamed

see my post i have posted three vimeo videos (Downloadable) worth the download and view. there are no plans, (You will realize once you see the video). On his behalf will post pics (Though videos are self explanatory).

Some examples are
(a) Household room heater, discarded motor cycle mud guard and xray film for Canopy
(b) Curtain Hooks for pull pull etc. amazing.

we have our home grown boy too (roopesh), ayub is a notch above no doubt

Thanks Gusty sir can you share the link /thread where u uploaded videos

Great skills.... but it is not that easy as it appears in the videos.

Still awesome to see

Just watched the videos. I am absolutely speechless  . Never seen anything like this ever before. Craftsmanship + dedication at its zenith. Thank You so much for sharing Gusty bhaiya, otherwise would have missed this incredible thing.

Wanted to know what he used for hinges ??

@rohit that looked like some blue plastic sheets... Maybe ohp sheet or some labels... Or could be ca hinges

Sent from a potato using a lamp

I am Ayub Khan,
Thanks to all for appriciation and so much respect.
Thank you Gusty, for showing my build at this forum.I am happy
For canopy I used plastic sheets which we use for covering our books and note books
Black stuff is a dark paper which we use in cars, to make wind screen dark.
For decals I used reflector taps, which we use at bus, trucks

These are X-Ray pieces, joint with depoxi

You are right it is not easy, you have watched videos in just 17 minutes but it took my 3 months.

speechless

Thanks a lot.

You are happy , i am happy . You are welcome, do share your future builds

wow. great, any special kind of thermocol was used..

Not a special but a little hard foam.

Some people are having issues viewing vimeo videos, below are the hyperlinks

[urlhttp://vimeo.com/50467490#at=0

[urlhttp://vimeo.com/50468352#at=0
[urlhttp://vimeo.com/50469584#at=0

copy and paste from http onwards in your browser

PS
Ahamed your inbox is full

He is a master craftsman, i have one of his great builds in my hanger n i m still stunned & clueless how he carved it so neatly...
I am his fan from the very 1st day...nice gentle person too...

Mr ayub, why dont you post your full hangar here? i am sure many of us will want to see it!

I don't know how I missed this thread earlier.

This is amazing Ayub. I'm out of words and believe me I'm glued to the build videos. The finesse on that model is superb.

Keep up.

GS

   to you Ayub

and

  great job....

Manish.

Simply great. !!!!!!!!!!

Thank you, ahash, rcpilotacro, aniket210696, girishsarwal, manish.karnik, kakka_rao, and dynamite33 for your encouragement,
I will post here my first and  second builds, I will also post when my up coming build.

 Rcpak have just announced the results of (Electric, Design Build and Fly Competition V3) which I have won by this bird.
Here is the link!
 
http://www.rcpak.com/index.php/online-competitions/148-edbf

here are some more pics

Ayub

Congrats on winning the best scratch built , good show and keep it up

Congratulations, Ayub.

I not very much into planes or heli, but this built is simply fantastic

I can see how Ayub saab uses very small and simple things that we can find in our home and had build a fabulous plane to be very frank when i saw the image i was like few items he might have not build. But after watching video i was very much impressed

Wow amazingly awesome  superb Sir, the saying holds true for you - "Necessity is the mother of Invention".

Thank you Gusty,RCNeil21, sanjayrai55, dynamite33, satyagupta  for you congrats. 
actually this was a totally scratch build which I made for competition, It has 280 build pics and videos, so difficult to post all. you can visit this Rcpak link for complete detail! I think you need to make account....

http://www.rcpak.com/index.php/forum/26-scratch-building--repairing/41144-edbf-v3-sbach-342-full-fuse-50q?limitstart=0

Sir your passion for building planes is so much that you attuned your building skills to make planes from simple household objects

 Yes, RCNeil21, thanks for your words,
As this is an expensive hobby, so I tried to utilize comon things for making this plane as cheap as possible.

I think Rc India should also launch this kind of Electric Desigh Build and Fly Competitions to develop scratch building, it makes the forum interesting.

Yes sir even RC India should come up with such interesting competitions , it will be a lot of fun.

Perhaps, you are both oblivious of this:

http://www.rcindia.org/free-donations-and-sweepstakes/rc-india-4th-anniversary-sweepstakes/

VC sir, but that competition is already over. There should be a competiton every 3-4 months,  instead of random sweepstakes we should give it as prize and have a competition for that, it will enhance our community and also each scratch builder, we will also get to see personal techniques of each builder. There should be build logs like RCPak's competition has.

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@rcneil there were build logs

Sent from a potato using a lamp

Nice one, It mean I entered late at this forum. you can make it more easy and clear as it is!

http://www.rcpak.com/index.php/online-competitions/148-edbf

Yeah but i meant a bit more detailed, in a way which a advanced beginner can make the plane easily.

Yes I agree with you, and I think all build threads of competition should start by specific name, so that viewers can recognize easily.