ORIGINAL: can773
Hi Matt,
While I certainly appreciate your efforts, I don't think it is very respectful to the owner of the Xigris design (ZN Line) to publicly announce that you are copying it, and offering up replacement parts to individuals.
I have worked with Jean-Pierre and ZN line for many years, and know they put a lot of time and effort into their designs. It would be unfortunate if activity such as this would ever cause them to move away from F3A. We all know there are few options available today, and having even less would be unfortunate.
To say that he was extremely unhappy to read your post is a grand understatement.
No disrespect intended. Thanks for your input
Why would they "move away from F3A"? First, I am not going into the business of building model kits for the world stage....I am not their competitor. Second, mine is strictly academic curiosity to see if I could do something. Have no interest in building whole airframes for others, just myself. Third, longer term, my intent is to experiment on this fuse design. As I said before, the power plant is a 58 cc gasoline engine. The front of the fuse will be highly modified to accept the large engine.
Jean-Pierre should be glad that I chose this model to play with. There were others I considered. He is free to use the ideas I will present here-in. The only thing I will ask is that he give credit.
If any one is interested in using similar equipment in theirs, then follow along. This will not be another mondane build thread of the model; that's been covered by others. But I do have a couple new things I am interested in teaching others, and I will showcase them in this thread