Charles Scott-Knox-Gore

Sorry, I hadn't seen Ace's post

Great picture but the "buzzard" is a kite.

Yes please

Yes please

Yes please

Yes please

I tried just now and when I went to the "cart" there was a message showing my details but saying " these items does not "(sic) "meet the purchasing rule criteria ". My CAA registration runs until July next year, so I suspect this is why, and I shall try just renewing the BMFA membership, but I wonder if anyone will remind me to renew the CAA registration in the summer. I shall almost certainly forget!

Add me to the list please

Finished Peter Miller's Ohmen, now ready to fly.(RTF) Mended crash-damaged DB Tiger Moth, RTF when cowl re-painted. Mended crash damaged (virtually demolished) Freedom Rebel EDF, almost RTF. Mended motorised K7 glider (given to me with fuselage broken in half) now RTF. Can't fly now, so finishing West Wings rubber powered Hawker Hart (started 17 years ago!!). All done, and RTF, but probably wouldn't dare launch it even if allowed, so now carving a scale (ish) propellor out of solid yew, for better display.A very interesting exercise. Main job now is 1/4 scale DB Gipsy Moth, which has been sitting on a shelf for over a year. Much looking forward to that, but memsahib keeps finding irritating little details like gardening and decorating that seem suddenly to have become urgent

Erfolg. The pink flowered bush is definitely a viburnum. Fabulous scent and flowers through the winter. Try and preserve it if you can: mine responds well to severe pruning after flowering - ie into late spring or early summer

911hillclimber. Did you get your motor from 4max? I bought one from them for my Ohmen, and one of the wires from the motor simply fell out. 4Max would not let me send it back to them, and said I must have pulled it out, which I certainly had not. The best they would do was to sell me another motor at a 20% discount, so I duly bought that, and it has worked perfectly. I went back to the old one and peeled back the heat shrink where the loose wire was joined, and found some white powder where the wire should have been soldered. I cleaned this up, re-soldered the joint, and re-applied heatshrink. The motor now works perfectly. I wonder therefore whether your problem is due to a simple loose connection due to a poorly soldered joint. Worth a look anyway.

I retrieved my Apprentice (well, most of it anyway) from the top of a 70ft sycamore which had jumped out in front of it as I was flying past, using a fishing rod with which I cast a lead weight over the top of the tree. It took a few goes, but eventually the branch was snagged securely enough to be heaved on and the plane fell out. Mended and has done many more flights since

Thanks for that Peter, I am much relieved. I have greatly enjoyed building this model, my first from a plan.I am now about to tackle the covering, with some trepidation. Will let you know how I get on.

Having built a beautiful tailplane as per the plan, I was rather dismayed to see Peter Miller's comment about making it from solid sheet. Can I ask Peter, how you broke your tailplane, as I should have thought the made up one would be strong enough? Should I abandon the one I have built and go for solid at this stage? I am inclined just to carry on, but would appreciate your further comment.