Yes Duane, I tend to over do things. I'm a big fan of the Gee Bees, most Golden age, WWI and WWII German aircraft. I don't know if you've seen my work, but I really like "bashing" ARFs and kits and making details from scratch. Usually I go all out on my RC aircraft when it comes to scaling things out. I don't plan on over doing it with this Gee Bee Z however unless I crash it, then what I usually will do is strip it down to it's bare bones and modify everything to be more accurate to scale. (hence the term bash)

I won't or rather don't, plan on doing it for quite a while, but one day I'll make the barn door ailerons and a few other things scale. But for now, I can really make nice scale details as is without tearing the whole plane apart. I told my wife I ordered this plane and and she freaked when I told her the wingspan is 70 inches!

I only own a old Ford Escort and will need to borrow my father-in-laws truck with cap to get this plane home! I doubt I could fit the box in the car trunk. [:@]

All my planes are 1/5 scale, I knew over time that I was eventually going to move up to 1/4 scale and have less room in the house to boot. For those who hasn't seen my work you can read read and see it here:

http://www.rcuniverse.com/forum/m_10038870/tm.htm

My planes will be in the next issue of MA, not sure what page because I lost Dave Mathewsons email describing what page it would be on. But if you guys see a black Fokker DR1 and Hanger 9 Fokker DVII together in the Focal Point section, you know it's my birds.

Here is some interesting info I got online today about the Gee Bee Z for those who are thinking of adding details to this good looking plane. I can see that quite a few full scale replicas are wrong in some of the details, just from what I read from this 1938 document. See attatchment below.


Pete