Go-n-up

Having flown a smaller GWS Tiger Moth for over a year, buying the Tiger Moth 400 was a given. As recommended in the review, I am using Kokam 3-cell 1500 mAh Li-Po batteries and the power with the stock motor is outstanding. Outside loops are routine. The plane has a fairly slow roll rate, but I like slow rolls with a biplane. It tracks where I point it without any of the herky-jerky motions of some aileron planes.

I have always liked the color scheme of the early 1940's U.S. Army Air Corps primary trainers. Since the US paid for 200 Tiger Moths to be built by De Havilland of Canada in 1942 amd assigned them the U.S. Army designation, PT-24, I decided to paint my TM as it would have appeared if actually delivered to the U.S. (the 200 planes were diverted to Canada's RCAF as lend lease).

Here are a few pictures.

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Nice finish job--mind if I ask how you did the markings?

Go-n-up

I painted the fuselage and wing certer sections with Navy Blue acrylic and the cowling and spinner with Testors Dark Blue enamel. I lightly sprayed the prop with silver enamel. The Air Corps star decals for the wings and the numeral decals for the fuselage were purchased from a local hobby shop. I couldn't find blue bar/red & white stripe decals for the rudder, so I brushed those on with acrylic paint (all the acrylic paints came from Wal*Mart's crafts section).