Victor Arcudi
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Here's my old heavy: still going strong.
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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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8 hours ago, RICHARD WILLS said:
I certainly agree with your appraisal Kevin . Very few designs in all walks of life are original . I would be the first to admit that both Gordon Whitehead and Mick Reeves definitely played a part in my modelling education .
;;;and Eric Coates for me...
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8 hours ago, Alan Gorham_ said:
Not certain Chiltern Models ever made a Typhoon of any size. Galaxy Models did make a 25 two-stroke sized kit.
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!
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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.
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Personally, I'll be using old fashioned heavyweight tissue & either WBPU paint or regular dope.
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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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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!
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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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Warbird Replicas Spitfire LF mk IXc
in Warbird kits
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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...