Bullet kit build of PB Bullet Click on any photo for a hi res version

The finished model.

22. Complete model

Model ready for maiden (almost).

22. Complete model

Views showing the receiver tray and rudder servo mounting and the 4S battery sat atop the ESC. Vented spinner to help cooling.

21. Complete model

Some details, ESC position 60A Hobbywing, tail details and canopy fitting.

20. Fuselage covering

Big step forward here, wing covered in red Hobbyking film, fuselage primed / filled and sprayed with Spectrum red rattle can red. White trims are cut vinyl. Holes in the motor mount to aid airflow, and unseen are the lower holes for the motor wires. Wing servos are HiTec HS5245, Elevator is a Radient RDNA0079  sounds a bit rough but I'm told they are OK & Rudder is a Corona 238MG - Have used these inthe past and are pretty good (to date)

19. Wing fairings

Wing fairings from blocks, these are a real pain to make, and no tips just slow and steady. Where the wood becomes quite thin I used thin cyano to harden. Fuselage, removable canopy & nose and fairings glassed.

18. Removable top section

Battery hatch will be retained by using a 1/4 turn quick release. The canopy will have to be trimmed to allow for clearance.

17. Removable top section

Front pin in place ready for gluing. And a start of the glasing of the fuselage.

16. Shaping & pre assembly

I have lost the step where the canopy sits, this is to make it easier to create the removable top section for battery access. Thats my excuse anyway.

15. Shaping

Ready for shaping - there is a Bullet in there somewhere. To accurately shape the fus I do it several passes. First is to square it all up, to easier take the same material off all sides. You can see the removeable section lite ply faces.

14. Removable nose

Nose blocked out, and fixing plugs glued in.

13. Removable nose

Nose block assembly, the red lines indicate no glue areas.

12. Removable nose

Ply hard faces and the removable nose. The pins are the center for the 3mm electric connectors use to hold the nose in place.

11. Electric conversion

Ply motor mount assebled with captive nuts inside the box.

10. Electric conversion

Electric motor RAY C3548/05) positioned against the  front cheeks, and measured to get the size of the motor mount.

9. Wings

Positioned the wing accuratly in place, and square to the fus, was simple to spot through for the wing bolts and front dowels

8. Wings

Top undercarriage plate, sits under the balsa cappings, and the capping sanded flush with top of wing. Bottom undercarriage plates in place and sanded flush, carefully. Centre section glassed with epoxy. I also ran some 4oz cloth over the bottom undercarriage mounts to tie them to the veneer.

7. Modifications

A few of modifications, well it would have been rude not to. There was some spare ply from the sheets, so I doubled up the screw holes for the undercarriage mounts, to give more purchase for the screws. Also added servo boxes in each wing panel so I can use a servo for each aileron. Added a ply doubler to fix a rear mounted elevator servo.

6. Wing

LE & TE strip fitted, and my prefered method of joining wings, glue a spacer to give dihedral parallel to the tip chord, and hold these flat when joining the wing, and error in the panels will be at the centre. I needn't have worried, there was zero discepancy at the root. These are excllent panels.

5. Tail feathers

Tail feathers glued together and held flat, I glue the elevators and rudder with spots of glue so they can be sanded as one, and separated easily later.

4. Fuselage

Make life easier later on, leave the fuselage as is for now with access to the wing mount holes and wing dowels, when the wing is finished, it will be easy to spot through the holes without measuring.

3. Fuselage

I had to break the wing mount out to fit the doublers. (See below)

2. Fuselage

However it is possible to go wrong here, the marked wing retaining plate must not be added at 90 degrees to the other formers, there are 2 doubler plates that set this at an angle. See above. I had to break this apart to fit propperly. No need to get the jig out, everything fits nicely at right angles, clampped until the epoxy dries.

1. Fuselage

I received no instuctions with the kit, but because it came second hand (for a good price) it may be that they were lost. There was a CD in the kit with build photos, so these were used for direction. Fuselage sides made, can't really go wrong here.