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Hey LDM
I'm keeping that in mind, i just want to get her finished or near enough before i contact CMPro.
i've started mounting up the engine. In it's standard configuration, the muffler, top of the head, and the choke lever will stick out. to fix, BCMA engines have a wrap around dustbim exhaust for this engine,but it's out of stock for now. the choke lever, has three options, 1 is to cut down the lever to fit inside, 2 is to get a 90 degree adaptor plate, and 3, is to replace the carby with a WT-540 which doen't have as long a lever and will give me another 800 or so rpm's according to the SPE thread.
Curiuos , will you mount the power module on the firewall ?? what about the battery , I am sure she will be tail heavy so I assume you will look for forward movemnet of equipment as much as possible
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I'm thinking that i will use velcro (hook & loop), and also some cable tie's with these plastic mounting pads, for the ignition module. As for the battery pack, it will go above the fuel tank just behind the firewall.
I've just emailed BCMA to find out how long it will be before the exhaust comes back into stock so i can calculate where i can place the ignition module. It might halt work a little, but i have just started on the cockpit so there will be no major rush for a while.
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Well guy,
BCMA have come back and told me that they have been getting the run around from the supplier of the dust bin exhausts so i'll have to look for another solution.
Lenny tells me that the belts for his lathe have arrived and he's playing catch up, but i have to say, i have tired waiting for this gear. it's been literally months since i first started talking with him about them.
I re-modelled my mustang's retracts last weekend at a warbird meet, so now i have some repairs to do on it's wing and retracts.
On a lighter note, i have been working on the cockpit. I decided to sratch build this one so see how it comes out and i am pretty happy with it so far. i'll post some pic's as soon as i find the camera.... i'm only really making the details which would be hard to add later on once the canopy is glued into place. Unless of couse i get too excited and end up finishing the whiooe lot in one go!
Thanks
Dave
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Hey LDM,
Yeah, i'm kinda not impressed. i have been waiting since June this year for them..... so that's 3-4 months
I have asked KMP for a price for their Fw-190 retracts to see what they come back with. I'd imagen that Lenny's stuff would be better, but 3 months is a fair go in my book.
Thanks again for your assistance with the emailing
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HI,BEEN FLYING A CMP 190 FOR 2 YEARS.POWERED BY A OS 120 E FOURSTROKE. ANY MORE POWER AND IT WOULD BE SO UNSCALE.ITS FITTED WITH ALL METAL EUROKIT RETRACTS. A GOOD SOLID ARTF. YOU MAY OF BEEN BETER OF BUILDING FROM A PLAN1 OZ
bashing is so much more fun , you open the big brown box from the big brown truck and you see the clear canvas ready for your artistic bash lol , tooo me and remember its just me , I rather see the arf that I am going to bash then a box of wood , but i do like lasor cut kits as well , some of them are actually exciting !!!!
I think this plane is discontinued for good but I did fine another version with split flaps for much more cash $269 , I started another post asking if anyone heard of the comp
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ORIGINAL: OZYRAY
HI,BEEN FLYING A CMP 190 FOR 2 YEARS.POWERED BY A OS 120 E FOURSTROKE. ANY MORE POWER AND IT WOULD BE SO UNSCALE.ITS FITTED WITH ALL METAL EUROKIT RETRACTS. A GOOD SOLID ARTF. YOU MAY OF BEEN BETER OF BUILDING FROM A PLAN1 OZ
Hey Ozyray,
If you go back and read the thread, you will see that i have already gone through all the points you made...
I agree with you as i have stated earlier, except for the os 120 fs being enough power. I had a brand new os 120 fs pumper in mine and the power was marinal to say the least. given that i was running the engine in at the time if you go back you will read that i have put the 40cc motor in so that i can spin an almost scale sized 3 blade prop and therefore making her MORE scale . That, and were i fly there are some nasty trees that have this habit of snatching models out of the sky, so it's handy to have a little extra power on tap to get out of those situation. not that i have been caught out before, but you never know.
I normally do scratch build, and kit build, but this is an inbetwen projects kitbash. and i have never kitbashed a model to this extent either so it's something new too.
How do you find your eurokit retracts? which ones did you use and are they set to scale angles? I'm still waiting on lenny at shindin so have started to look at other option including the set that comes with the yt/KMP Fw-190.
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RE: CMPro 71" Fw-190 kitbash - 
, tooo me and remember its just me , I rather see the arf that I am going to bash then a box of wood , but i do like lasor cut kits as well , some of them are actually exciting !!!!
, I started another post asking if anyone heard of the comp
if you go back you will read that i have put the 40cc motor in so that i can spin an almost scale sized 3 blade prop and therefore making her MORE scale