Julian Beckett

Oooh you've done it now.  Bertie will be after you mate...

Aaaw, you cut me Shrek...

All hail Reed! Come on, I wanna see some more build thread. Will someone light a fire under that boy!

Flatlander... I'll have you know that I've got some top secret SE-SW slopes now....

Aaaahhh. A fellow Jartist. Mines in primer awaiting inspration to paint!

Well, I'll just have to take my medicine....

Finished? Jeez.... I'd actually started out wanting to have a rant about Ripmax charging £150 to replace the touch screen, but sort of got side tracked! So, do we think it's justified or not? sorry..... 

Yep Timbo I saw it. All tongue in cheek  Never heard of little dog syndrome? You've never seen a Yorkshire Terrier yapping its head off at a much larger dog - like it's got a cat in hells chance...  

Ah yes, the staunch JR supporter... always the first to take the bait.  Little dog syndrome you see....

Well,  two years in, I'm still pretty pleased with having spent two months mortgage money on the 14MZ! I've never known a transmitter polarize opinion so heavily though. There are simply two camps - those who can't see past the bells and whistles, and then there's those whose curiosity got the better of them. Like me...  I've suffered the jokes about it running Windows and crashing models. Sigh. For the last time, the GUI is a flavour of Windows ME, but in terms of signal processing it's Futaba all the way. Who else offers free downloads for meaningful software updates too? I've also suffered at the hands of my impish mates who record swear words in place of my carefully crafted voice commands... But putting the silliness aside, it's a seriously good tranny. After the furrowed brow, blood and sweat trying to program a 9ZAP WCII, this thing is childs play. I've never had recourse to read the manual. I think Mr Spock must have had a hand in the development. It's a bit, well, logical innit? If you do take the time to read the book of words however, you'll realise it can do some pretty clever stuff. Any negatives? Yep. It should come with it's own power station - the battery is woefully inadequate. Using the touch screen sucks juice like a 4 litre Range Rover. The phrase touch screen is a bit of an oxymoron. It's more of a, 'press far too hard and wait', screen - which is broken at present, whilst I recover from the shock of a £150 bill for Ripmax to fix it. Will we ever see a fully native 2.4 gig version? I don't fancy lugging around a half arsed Frankenstein's monster, with an aerial poking out it's nether regions. Other than that I'm still a convert. How about you.....? 

Alan's right you know, give em a chance! I'm reviewing the ME109 for RCM&E at present, lovely kit, but blighted with some poorly shaped leading edges. No doubt they will want to sort the problem, when I get in touch tomorrow...

Hi Chris, perhaps a retraction of any allegations made to Watchdog might be in order...

It's scrap I'm afraid. It won't charge reliably because one cell is now dead. I'd try it on with retailer first. Had to be duff to start with provided you hav observed charge and discharge recommendations...

I used a Precedent Hi-Boy, and OS35FP. Self taught! Can't recommend either the model or the learning strategy!!!