I built one about 20 years ago with fixed landing gear and covered it with Monokote orange and Monokote white. With the Monokote finish it was quite light and thus it flew great. I think it was 7.5 pounds empty.

The fist one I saw left a great impression. It was painted with K&B red and K&B yellow paint and was flawless. It had Rhom air retract and a Kraft engine with a Kraft radio system. I could hardly stop staring at it because it was so beautiful. It looked great on the ground and looked great in the air.

I have to consider the Norm Page's 'Mach I' the most beautiful of all the planes I have ever seen. What lines. Some day I would like to scale it down to a 40 size engine but part of the beauty of the original was in the SIZE of that plane. Big and yet so beautiful.