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Jim,
You did notice that my new one is going to be white with Red trim, or is it red with white trim? Anyhow, the plane will start out white at the nose, scalloping in to the red, and the plane may wind up with more red than white area wise.
Bill, WACO Brother #1
Bill, no, I'm still hopping about the thread....it's hard to imagine how truly full this thread is of great WACO building tips, scale tips, and everything else. I just pick a page and I read and read. I keep trying to start at the beginning and go, but then I get excited and skip ahead to see how this or that came out, and then off I go again!!! I have to admit, this is as close to pure fun as anything I've done in many years (I've managed to stumble across some UN-pure fun here and there, of course...) , and it really is exciting to be any small part of it.
Along those lines, I can understand Bill and John's steadfast advocacy of a non-officer organization. But I think we can hold an Attaboy session for the two of them. Why? Because this thread, this particular labor of love, this creation they have nurtured from its infancy is nothing short of phenomenal. In the full-scale world, although there are many, many small attributes to the WACO Bipes, there are NONE as massive and concentrated and enthusiastically followed as this thread (That I can find anywhere).
In the past, I've taken a run at having a WACO, but after a while I couldn't find any great following. I thought that maybe the WACO just didn't look as beautiful to other guys as it did to me. When you're building something like this, you need to know there's others who have been there, and not many of us have the true pioneer spirit. That's what I see in Bill and John, and indeed, it must be truly infectious, because everywhere I look here I see unbridled enthusiasm and comeraderie, the kind that my friends and I had when we were young, and the kind you don't see these days, not at the field and, sad to say, more rarely in RCU than I would like to see. You can tell just by reading my recent posts that I've been trying to resist it, but this thread makes me want to push back the stuff on the sides of my shop, put in a bigger table, and BUILD myself a WACO, a BIG WACO!! Scale details and the works! I went out and found big, beautiful WACO shots to put on my computer desktops. Mind you, I may never actually BUILD one, but you never know, I might BUY one somebody else built if I don't! But I have a really strong feeling that there will be a WACO with scale detail in my future because of this thread.
So, ATTABOY to each of you, Bill and John, and thanks for whatever that special thing is you brought to this thread. I don't know how to spell the French words except phonetically; "that Jennay-say-Qua!"
I'm having fun here, and THAT is totally unexpected and VERY welcome. You guys ROCK.
Jim
khodges...No, nobody was ever brought to justice in any way..no proof of any kind was ever given to me, without that even vigilante justice can't be served. So, I'm looking at all of it as a new beginning and I'm exploring the new worlds of ARFs and electrics, and getting to know some of the new Saitos. Kinda miss my Scale SIG Spacewalker II fuse and my Brison 2.4s though....ouch...***sniff***snort****HONNNK!!***Sigh**** Ohh, well, I have the SPW-II wing still hanging on the wall...pretty wheel pants.. Okay, maybe I'm not quite over it, but a WACO would help some for sure!
< Message edited by Mainer_Jim -- 12/23/2007 6:20 AM >
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