Victor Arcudi

Thanks for the kind words. I guess what it boils down to is resisting the urge to show off doing aerobatics with a plane which was never meant to do them. I like to keep control inputs to a minimum and smooth, just enough to get the results I'm after...

Here's my old heavy: still going strong.

I can also vouch for Ron's retract recipe, used it on my old Pilot Spit and it worked great.

Thanks gents, agreed on the commercial venture as well. That's why waiting is not an issue for me. There's also the fact that to warrant such an undertaking you'd want a rather large batch of orders (which I honestly doubt will ever materialise).

I'm more than willing to wait. The end result will definitely be worth it. For the time being I still have my good old HK B-17. Never crashed even once...

Here's another B-17! ?

Excellent looking Hurri! Great job.

;;;and Eric Coates for me...

Actually they did, it was originally a Kiwi kit. it comprised of a G/F fus and cowl with a clear (bubble) canopy, plans and a whole lotta sheet for building your own wings & tailplane. A smallish model, it was intended for .40 i.c. power and had fixed l/g.

Personally, I've got 3 Chiltern kits, one is a completed small Tucano converted to leccy, a small Tiffy still in its box and a complete Fairey Firefly with all the bells & whistles, including scale prop and spinner for display, retracts, the works!

If anyone's interested, here's an Outerzone copy of the OK Spit MkII: https://outerzone.co.uk/plan_details.asp?ID=4800

G'day, I'm Richard Will's friend who lives in Italy. I did my own build of a Pilot Spitfire back in the 80's and powered it with a (brushed neodim) Keller 40/8 motor and 2 x 7 cell nicad packs. I modded it with a proper flat center section & mechanical retracts with scale pintle angles. Also gave it a full cockpit interior with a sliding canopy. It only flew once and in a sprightly fashion (probably a scale mach 3) before my brand new Sanwa excellence tranny intervened. Even though the end result was rather poor, the model was thoroughly enjoyable to build and even modify. If I was lucky enough to find one, I'd buy it straight away! IMHO, it was a beautiful model extremely well presented for the day.

Personally, I'll be using old fashioned heavyweight tissue & either WBPU paint or regular dope.

Wow Brian, That really leaves me for dead! Since mine will be a C.205, I'm still modding the tail section to accept a Robart mini tailwheel retract. I'm using a Dynam Bf-109G type spinner, which has the ideal shape, all I needed to do was modify the prop nut which was shortened by 3mm, bored out & threaded to 10x1.5mm to accomodate the prop driver. The motor is a 400kv Turnigy G60 which I'll run on a 6s 4000 or 5000mah pack, depending on which one gets the CG right. As for the prop, it'll be a MAS 16x8 3 blader. The only mod after all that will be the beer barrel shaped radiators under the cowl and the addition of the wing cannon.