I should admit that the reason I feel I can post on the Beginner's forum is because that is EXACTLY what I am -- a rank beginner. I had never flown an RC plane before last January (got my son an electric RTF for Xmas) and just solo'ed about two months ago on my gas trainer. The EIII is my first EVER RC build (scale or otherwise) and I wasn't sure it was even going to fly (it does! yippie!). I had built a lot of Guillow's "hanger queens" as a kid but other than assembing my RCM trainer ARF had no prior experience with RC planes.

I'd describe my plane as "better not look TOO close" scale! The outlines are totally scale (I used technical drawings from the Smithsonian rather than "plans") but the workmanship is less than first class up close. Here's a link to a thread on the Scale forum with a few more pix.

http://www.rcuniverse.com/forum/AbuF...1995167/tm.htm


--Don (AbuFletcher is an Arabic way of forming nicknames and means "Father of Fletcher")