BobH

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I know bob Karlson and Ive seen his Wild Cat when it was new and competing. It's a fine model to be sure.
Is it the "best ever? I don't think there's such a thing..

perdo

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I own a set of gear almost like yours but mine are all tube made and more scale like. I decided years ago not to build the plane.

pkoury

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I saw Bob Karlson compete with the original in scale at the Sequin TX NATS. Since then I have seen three others built from his plans and successfully flown along with two of the Classic Glass kits.

fun2fly24

Wow thanks for all the info! I like to learn more about this plane and thank all of you for the input and compliments. I just figured i would share my most prized possession with the rest of the rc world! Thanks for talking to me about it!

fun2fly24

Thanks for all of the info greg!! Greatly appreciated!!

Free Bird

If you want to see "rare" RC models, visit the AMA museum in Muncie. Rare is Tom Brett's Perigee, Kazmirski's Orion and Taurus. Those are "rare" RC models. Just my 2 cents.

FB

u2fast

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here is rare. one of one. hand drawn plans etc.

by the way, i have two wildcats.

fun2fly24

Wow that is beautiful! Congrats dude! You have some sweet planes

Tisoy909

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I've got this plane that I drew up on a piece of paper one time and i just made one of them. cant get more rare than that! My wife was cleaning the table one day so now the plans exist only in my head

FlyerInOKC

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The Wildcat is available from Jerry Bates plans, I'm sure a short kit is available from a number of sources, and the main and tail gear are still cataloged by Robart. The gear are built on order so there is a 12 to 16 week lead time. The price is steep but not surprising for a "custom' gear for intensive purposes. I would say its a rare airplane, it comes down to is the popularity of the Wildcat with builders. The Corsair dominates in WWII Naval air fans.

KP.

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92", 1/5th scale Classic Glass kit.....Rare? Somewhat.....Byron P-38 has my vote.......Ken

Wagon1

U2fast, please tell me about the devastator. I have a set of plans and am looking forward to getting started but I have never seen a completed model.
There are many flying and non-flying examples of the full scale Wildcat (we have 4 in the museum here in Pensacola).There are, however, no examples above water of the Devastator anywhere in the world. It is a historically important aircraft that is underrepresented in out hobby.

Love your F4F!!!

TLH101

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Rare, how about a glass 78" W/S B-17 made by Mey's Hi Tech models. That's rare. Searched for months for info, with not a single hit.

u2fast

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Wagon1, the devastator was built in the early 90's by bob noser. His friend don Williams drew up plans on brown paper. The span is a little over 100". This model is skinned in 1/64 ply one panel at a time. It's just pure artwork. Model flew quite a bit back in the day. I have updated the model. We plan on flying her in team scale at the scalemasters.

Hemikiller

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Bob's Wildcat was, in it's day, a groundbreaking model. Large scale and a rarely modeled subject with scale-ish functioning retracts.The article was published in Model Airplane News and the plans are still available from them, as are the retract plans.

http://www.airagestore.com/grumman-w...ar-x03832.html

One of the more prolific builders in our club built and flew this plane in the early 2000's, it flew well but was short lived. He like to re-use bits from his and other people's crashed airplanes....

BTW, Bob's wildcat is only 76" wingspan, might want to break out a tape measure.

fun2fly24

The builder of this one i beileve extended the wings to 78 or 79 in order for it to be allowed to fly at the events like warbirds over delaware which requires an 80inch wingspan ( close enough ) but you are 100% correct! Bobs was definnitley 76 inches

FlyerInOKC

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Now I do know a rare kit (I wish I still had a picture. I bought back in the mid 70s and haven't been able to find one like it or find a listing on it. It was a Jack Stafford standoff scale P-51D. It had foam core wings and I built it with Goldberg main retracts and a Robart retractable tail wheel. Anyone here remember it?

Chad Veich

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I seem to recall that Bob built and competed with a larger Wildcat many years after he introduced the 76" span version. Anybody else remember this or am I just going crazy?

FlyerInOKC

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From the Bob Holman plans website
He lists these as Jerry Bates designs

GRUMMAN F4F WILDCAT
1/5TH SCALE, 92” WINGSPAN.
Plan based on model built by Doug Imes.
Plans $55.00, + $12.00 shipping
Laser cut parts $250.00 + shipping. At cost UPS
Cowls and accessories are available.

GRUMMAN F6F HELLCAT
1/6TH SCALE, WING SPAN 80”
PLAN $45.00, LASER CUT PARTS $185.00
EPOXY GLASS COWL AND CANOPY $75.00
1:5.4 SCALE, WING SPAN 96"
PLAN $55.00
LASER CUT PARTS SOON.

He lists this as Mammoth Scale (Pepino) designs

77chickenhawk

Yeah I'm thinking that my collection is more like 1/5 .5 scale because the yellow P 40 is 86 inches my CMP zero is 82 inches so they are correct for each other just smaller than 1/5. So which kids would be the 82 inch model? That's probably the one I should get

77chickenhawk

Aww I want one.

as722

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Nice yes, most rare.....not even close. Please change the tittle to "my 1/5 scale Wildcat".

FlyerInOKC

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Pick the size you can transport to the field,

invertmast

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Well what fun is that!



no its not a glider...

FlyerInOKC

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Is that the pilot Thomas? From the shape the wing looks like it belongs to a warbird probably a P-51 Mustang.

Mike