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ASM C-130 - 12/20/2006 2:00:02 AM   
Fili



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Status: offline 		Anyone have any experience with this new ARF? Advanced Scale Models Coast Guard C-130 100". I'm liking it, but would like to hear if anyone has seen, assembled, or flown this kit yet.

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RE: ASM C-130 - 12/20/2006 4:36:22 AM   
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Status: offline 		I recently ordered one through my local hobby store. It arrived last week and I was very lucky I am a good customer and they didn't make me pay for it.

It is a very average quality ARF, and for the size seems very flimsy and wouldn't last long. The overall finish is poor, as the fuselage has about 50 seem lines. (The fuselage is made of lots of individual parts instead on a two piece mould.)

Even the staff at the hobby store advised me not to buy it.

on a scale of 1 to 10.... 4

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RE: ASM C-130 - 12/20/2006 12:49:57 PM   
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Status: offline 		Humm, great post, would like to see some pics, now I'm very glad I decided to Kit build the Palmer C-130 after reading your post.

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RE: ASM C-130 - 12/20/2006 6:37:54 PM   
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Status: offline 		I will procede with my Quality fiberglass. It is Nice, But a lot of work still to be done.


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RE: ASM C-130 - 12/21/2006 2:25:49 AM   
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Status: offline 		Poop, had the dough too.....


Thanks for the heads up though.


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RE: ASM C-130 - 12/21/2006 3:21:27 AM   
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Status: offline 		Seam lines, as opposed to panel lines?

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RE: ASM C-130 - 12/26/2006 12:05:06 PM   
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Status: offline 		gee, I wonder how their P-61 looks like?..anybody seen that one?...My LHS has one on order..been BO for about a month .....

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RE: ASM C-130 - 12/26/2006 6:19:41 PM   
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Status: offline 		I have the ASM PItts..a beautiful plane and very excited about it..not a panel line or seam to be seen.

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RE: ASM C-130 - 12/27/2006 12:46:36 AM   
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Status: offline 		Wow… is it really that bad? I have one on order—suppose to arrive by 15 Jan. I try not to take the word of folks I don’t know or never have seen, but your words are frightening. So again, is it really that bad?

Thanks in advance…

Mr DJ


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RE: ASM C-130 - 12/27/2006 1:04:49 AM   
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Status: offline 		I have the ASM DH88 Comet and when I read the post about it here I was just nodding my head in agreement with all of Terough Bobs comments. All of the wood-constructed parts are great it is the fuse that is really poor in quality. The plywood formers with carbon fiber rods for stringers to povide a basic support structure for the plastic fuselage shell is an intersting method of construction. I'm a bit concernted that the YS 63s will rattle this thing apart. It would be much better suited for electric but I haven't gone electric and have been wanting this plane for a while.

This is not meant to bash the ARF, but is what I feel, an honest assessment of the quality and issues with this particular model by ASM. That is not to say all of them are like this but all of the posts on this particular model have similar issues.

In the eight years I have been flying I have built more planes from plans and kits than I have assembled ARFs. This ARF is the poorest quality I have experienced.

That is my 2% of a dollar.

< Message edited by TCBLightning -- 12/27/2006 1:11:43 AM >

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RE: ASM C-130 - 12/27/2006 1:06:41 AM   
Mr DJ


 

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Status: offline 		Part II--have you built and flown yours yet? What engines did you use? How does it handle, etc., etc?

Thanks again...

Mr DJ

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RE: ASM C-130 - 12/27/2006 1:41:59 AM   
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Status: offline 		Hi

So now that you've read a few negative words on this bad boy--are you going to buy it?

I have time to cancel mine, but again, I really don't take the word of someone I don't know or have never seen.

Anyways, I'll play it by ear...

Mr DJ

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RE: ASM C-130 - 12/27/2006 3:04:10 AM   
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Status: offline 		no, not yet. I'll wait till more folks have actually bought, assembled, and flown this bad boy. I might even see one at a flyin or two next season.

Maybe next year. I'll use the money I saved for retracts on this years project.....


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RE: ASM C-130 - 12/27/2006 6:51:58 PM   
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Status: offline 		I thought it over last night and decided to take receipt of it regardless. If I need to strengthen the fuse, I’ll just lay some fiberglass along the insides and/or build up with wood or whatever. I fell in love with that bad boy as soon as I saw it advertised. I just gotta have it

I’ll give a report back here once I get it home and give it a detailed once over—I should have it by mid Jan 07.

Mr DJ


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RE: ASM C-130 - 1/14/2007 3:46:30 AM   
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