PatMc

So long as a lithium battery, brushless motor & ESC could have been borrowed from a passing time traveller.

Boom, boom.

But they let Grandad lake the lead.

I must have got a lot of fake wet 'n dry paper & emery cloth over the past 6 or 7 decades, my soldering joints have never been any problem. 😉

Funny thing was you rarely came across anyone else actually flying with home made RC gear.

Crows wouldn't be able to load a gun. 😏

There is a method, if it's really necessary but it does involve a little model making work. 🙂

In Paul's case the Gendarmerie (Sp?) are the one's are unlikely to take action. 😉

We'll have to agree to differ then.

IMO the word "classic" has become overworked & often inaccurate to the point of being virtually meaningless. Same applies to "awesome", "iconic" & a number of other superlatives.

With some models I look on the screw fix (would be a good name for a company 😊) method as more of a maintenance aid & occasional long term storage. Any glue would be an unnecessary nuisance.

Toto, I wouldn't use any glue if it has a screw. That's my prefered method on most models, it helps with storage at times & often a boon when any maintenance is required.

I would expect them to be fixed in place by the ply tongue visable in th pic of the fin & rudder assembly plus a single screw .

There comes a time when every fart is a gamble.

You mustn't have lived in UK in the 1980s then ?

Oh yes there was. 😉

The roundels on the full size would have been bright as the aircraft would never have been more than a few months, or even weeks, old if used in active war service. It's only the photos of them that are aged.

I've been building models since the early 1950's & can't remember ever gluing wing dowels in place but for a long time I've rarely build a model that doesn't have the wings glued or bolted in place or plugged onto metal or carbon dowels. The last time I built a model with banded on wings was a cut & try own design around 20 years ago. I modify any that are designed for wing bands to bolt on wings, even including vintage designs.

Loose fit the wing holding dowels to the fuselage then before applying any epoxy fit the wings in position held there with a couple of bands. Check that the LE & TE line up accurately. If they do, join the wings with the epoxy & masking tape then fit them on the fus with the bands, check everything is lined up as it should be & leave for the epoxy to cure overnight.

This design has been around for quite a number of years, the exra conduit is probably intended for a 35 MHz Rx aerial but redundant for 2.4GHz

@Mike ChantlerDid you use a void filler as in my post dated 3 Aug 22 above ?

Got my left eye done September then the right in December 2021. I was terrified before the first op. I couldn't imagine how I would not make some involuntary eye movement but in fact the whole thing went very smoothly. Due to Covid a special unit was set up in the grounds of a near redundant old hospital my son dropped me of at the car park about 10 mins before the appointment time. I had to enter the unit through the front entrance & was being operated on within 15 - 20 minutes. After the op when it was decided I had recovered OK a nurse rang my son then escorted me to a side exit where he took me back to his car. During the prep time the surgeon told me that it was the second most common medical operation worldwide. One of the things that struck me most in the period between the two ops was the difference in brightness and colour hues each eye perceived. A pair of trousers that looked charcoal grey to my right eye were now navy blue to my left eye. I'd thought some white doors in the kitchen & bathroom were overdue in need of repainting but now realised they were actually quite bright. Geoff, I was driving again within two weeks after each op.

Erf, are there any instructions included with the ESC ? SMC site states that it has automatic cell count, which now very common, but if the user can also select the number of cells you may have accidently done this & selected more cells than your battery has. This would give the same result as LVC. BTW, SMC describe it as "unbranded" no mention of "Pro".

I just give dabs of different colour paint to each servo male with matching colour to corresponding female.

I think 2 football pitches (Premier league standard) comes to just over 3.5 acres.