dave windymiller

Habu and Meteor midair. Totally new balsa nose

Curare built in 1981, and crashed ~2009. repaired ~2012. Unfortunately the 2025 pic is nearer to pic1. Will get round to it again!

I did mine last year and i now have 6 more years before i have to renew. I presume i had 2 year left previously (obtained by having a B cert)???

BT user here. Slow update in the past few weeks and pics seem to flash a blank pic until the pic actually arrives some 10 seconds later! Cheers

V6 attached! V_6-0.zip V_6-0.pdf

Scour the streets for discarded ones from your local post man persion!! Even 50 years on i still see them on the road and are tempted to pick them up (i dont!)

Ah the sleek streek. Hours spent walking the streets for postman discarded rubber bands to replace the broken one. 50 years on i see a rubber band in the street and my instinct is hooray, found one (i leave it in the gutter nowadays i hasten to add)! Those Vulcan shaped darts were ace. My mum found half a one in the garden which must have been lodged in the gutter for 40 years. When picked up it crumbled up to bits!

Brill!

Thanks chaps, Will defo add weathering and stencil text. Im going to try to spraying through an "EZ Screenprint" silk screen made on an injet and developed with sunlight! Anyone tried this? Jet magazine featured this approach a few years back. Rivets? Yes subtle ones. Its with all good intentions but as soon as a new project starts, such plans go out of the windows. We will see Could have done "Mig Mad Marine" all polished finish as i can easily get the decals but was advised silver is a pig to see under some flying conditions. The luftwaffe at least had some colour!

My f86 is finally airworthy so all being well it will be maidened at Elvington at the end of the month. If all goes well, i will add stenciling, rivets and weathering! Home made twist and retract nose gear, Futaba 16sz and Xicoy x95 (a tiny little engine for its thrust!!). The part finished kit was bought at the nationals swap meet about 7 years ago. Dont know what kit it is but the latest theory is its a 1/7th BVM clone by Peter Leibertraill (not sure of spelling), the Graupner hotspot designer. Windy

Wow sad news for a fan like me. Thanks for the update. I am modifying a p51 into a twin mustang by lengthening and replicating the fuselage but not got around to ordering the second canopy. Just ordered one! Sad to see them go and i hope they sell off their range.

Try a smaller current charge, 250mA perhaps?

Here is my Luftwaffe sabre f86 with Calle graphics. The nose decals (black triangles with white edges) as supplied were way too small so i painted these on. I could have requested decals of the right scale but i wasnt convinced that they would sit great on the curvy nose! The rest of the decals were great including the tail. I opted not to use the red on the fin leading edge and chose to paint it red but the rest were as supplied. A few more decals would have been nice and i would have happily paid more for these but the ones supplied got the model to looking complete. Overall for the price i was happy. I plan to paint the numerous English/German stencil text and use the sheets that can create a silk screen mask using an inkjet for the numerous smaller decals as i saw used in Jet international magazine (anyone got experience of these?)

Camping & entry cost (prebooked): - For one person in a small tent £120 (ie me) For 2 people plus children in a monster motorhome £120 I dont feel this is fair!