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  1. 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...
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    Here's my old heavy: still going strong.
  3. Victor Arcudi
    I can also vouch for Ron's retract recipe, used it on my old Pilot Spit and it worked great.
  4. Victor Arcudi
    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).
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    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...
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    Here's another B-17! ?
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    Excellent looking Hurri! Great job.
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    ;;;and Eric Coates for me...
  9. Victor Arcudi
    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.
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    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!
  11. Victor Arcudi
    If anyone's interested, here's an Outerzone copy of the OK Spit MkII: https://outerzone.co.uk/plan_details.asp?ID=4800
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    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.
  13. Victor Arcudi
    Personally, I'll be using old fashioned heavyweight tissue & either WBPU paint or regular dope.
  14. Victor Arcudi
    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.
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    tailwheel retract
  16. Victor Arcudi
    Looking good Brian! As for me and as a matter of personal preference, I'll kick off the build with the fuselage. All the parts have been matched up to the drawing and I daresay I've never seen such beautiful laser cutting. The parts have no charring anywhere. Save us lots of time in sanding the bits in order to have a good surface for glueing. As for the build, in dry fitting the parts, everything slots together beautifully. No issues whatsoever. All I have to do now is try and catch up with you Brian (fat chance)!
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    Looks easy, just the thing for either a newbie or a dyed in the wool balsa basher!
  18. Victor Arcudi
    For whoever's interested, here's a link to a virtual tour of the Italian Aviation museum located near Rome. There's also a few pics of both the Macchi C.202 and 205. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hHwUsPj7Z8#t=157.930521
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    G'day folks, first off I'd like to say I'm honoured to participate in this build. As an Aussie I'm tempted to build a C.205 which in 1943 was captured in Sicily personnel of No. 450 Squadron RAAF and subsequently serviced by the squadron's fitters.
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    office

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    Inst. panel

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    Inst. panel
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    Aussie captured C.205
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    Brit captured C.202
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