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Joined: 1/4/2002 From: camdenton,
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Hi Scale No don't wait 25 years! Get a good 60 size kit and get after it! you will learn ton's on the first one. just make sure to get a kit with a good set of building instructions. After that move up to a little bigger and possibly a different manufacturer. Again you will learn a lot on those first couple and then you can spend the next 25 years refining your skills. Don't start with a Ziroli right off as there are very little in the way of instructions to help you learn. Just go for a nice looking good flying airplane and build from there. There are always some good builders here on RCU that will be glad to answer a question or two or three or....
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Joined: 5/1/2002 From: Collierville, TN, USA Status: offline
Wolf,
Thanks for the reply. I was thinking about building a couple of SIG kits and then moving to the OV10 when I am reasonably confident in my flying abilities. I think I saw it in kit (not ARF) form on the Aeroscale site. Then possibly going after the larger version via a kit cutter. Then when I am 99 years old I'll order some Ziroli plans and give you a call I may be a scale dreamer, but I'm a realist in that I'll part with my dough only when I am confident I can move to the next level.
BTW the SkunkWorks site is great! Keep up the good work and post some more pictures when you are able.
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Joined: 1/18/2002 From: Moline,
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Hey Guys I posted 3 views and other reference on my site that I scanned for Shawn in case anyone else needed them. the direct link is at http://home.mchsi.com/~jahuntley/3views.html I posted all 6 scans on 1 page and didnt resize so they can be grabbed and printed direct without resizing so you guys on slow servers may take a little bit for all 6 to load.
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Joined: 2/1/2002 From: Silver Lake, KS, USA Status: offline
Shawnusa, Well I did go and measure my upper turret. Actually I measured the base that it slides down onto as it will rotate on this base...my base is exactly 5 inchs across, no more, no less. If your upper turret is actually 5 1/4 across on the inside then possibly there are two different castings and you may have the wrong one for the 101 version. Even at the 5 inchs even, I think it is a bit oversize for scale. Let me know what you find, especially if it is different.
Dreamer, Wolf had very good advice I would say. Get a bit of skill and then go for it...no need to wait long at all. Myself, I taught myself to fly with a trainer, then built an Ugly stick, Kadet Senior, and a Sig Smith Miniplane...then I started on my plans built B-17. That was before my computer age or ever belonging to a club. With the help you will have available you will be very well off. Learn multi-engine flight before pressing on to a large twin project. Way too many know it all's ( including me! ) in multi-engine r/c. Way too late I found that much of my eagerly consumed multi-engine advice was given out by people that had never even flown multi's...must have been a ego thing for them. I paid dealy for that mis-advice, but I asked and I recieved. : )
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Joined: 1/18/2002 From: Moline,
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I asked diane at nicks place and she told me that the gun pods were for the 101" and that the 118" didnt have gun pods for them in their plastics kit lol go figure
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Joined: 5/1/2002 From: Collierville, TN, USA Status: offline
Randy, wolf, Joe
Thanks to all of you for the encouragement. I guess I was guarding against some snobs telling me to get back with them when I knew what I was doing, but then again, after reading virtually every post since the begining, I thought most of the guys on this thread were going to be decent people who just enjoy their hobby......Glad I was right!!! :-)
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Joined: 1/31/2002 From: Sunrise Beach,
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Hey Scale Dreamer, The Ziroli 101 B-25 is my first try at building a large semi-scale plane. 1Wolf got me started on warbirds and now I am hooked. The other gentlemen on this thread are by far better at building then I am but I feel our planes (we are building 3 at one time) should still turn heads when we fly at our local fields. If you want a hobby that can make you feel calm after a hard day at work this is the one to start with. I have been in the hobby about 7 years and hope that everything the people in this thread have told us is true if not you need to turn around because it is not nice to see a grown man cry! Steve The Pr
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Joined: 1/4/2002 From: camdenton,
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go for it scale get ya a good trainer and start flying. Don't think you have to fly what you build right away. Take you hard work to the club and get the best pilot there to check it out for you and take it up for it's maiden voyage. He'll be able to give you a lot of good building advice from how she flys. Then when your flying skills are up to it fly her yourself. Unfortunately the best way to learn in this hobby is from your own mistakes.
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I may be a scale dreamer, but I'm a realist in that I'll part with my dough only when I am confident I can move to the next level. 
