On the Saturday before our club’s scheduled Ringmaster Fly-a-thon session on Sunday, I decided early in the morning that I would build a Beginners' Ringmaster to fly on Sunday. By about 11:30 I had finally cleaned up the shop from working on the batch of engines I had gotten the previous Saturday.  “How hard can this be” I said to myself. After all I had previously built a similar ½-A in 44 minutes start to finish. (photo below).

I set about printing the full-size plans which would be printed on 12 8½x11 sheets of paper. By somewhere around 2 p.m. I had finally finished trimming the sheets and taping them together.

Somewhere between times It occurred to me that while I kind of wanted to build this model, I didn’t want to have it.

The next step was copying the parts from the plans to .pdf files so I could glue those individual parts to the balsa to cut out the parts.  I finished that about 4:30 and decided to write about it and make all of the drawings available so if at some future time I or someone else wanted to build a Beginners' Ringmaster the project would be as quick and painless as I envisioned to start with.

Click on the links below for pdf files of the plans and parts.