ORIGINAL: mattnew
Just got one of these delivered yesterday to build.
Kind of perturbed the plans were layed out such that every single plan ( wings body etc ) were laid out such that you have to tape multiple sheets together to get a full plan. Not a huge deal to tape them together... just not sure why they couldn't have made the plans 2 sheets instead of 3.
Wood seems mostly good... some of the bigger stuff is pretty dense and I may replace it but we'll play it by ear as we go.
Plans are printed that way because it costs less. It's got to do with the size of paper the supplier have and the size of press that you've got. It costs an extra fortune to inclreas your press size from a max. 40" width to the next range. Very similar to balsa wood. As soon as you go larger than 3" width or 48" length, you get an astronomic price increase. If you have a speial size, it's even worse.
Check the bulkheads. Unless the plans have been updtaed, you'll find that the are a different width where shown as the sketches over which you build and on the top view of the fuselage.
Also plan on lots of weight in the tail.
All the best.