Tom,

The pics on your plane and your girlfriends plane look great. The one in the fall colors is fantastic. I like your color choices. I assume that after fiberglassing the sheeted areas you painted those areas and painted the stripes, then used Monocote on the wing and ribbed areas. It's nice seeing someones build as it progressed. And I appreciate everyones input. I'll defintetly stay with the Senior, as I already have a .40 plane now and wish to go bigger. (They sure get small when they get altitude and distance Having somewhat of a "Tim Allen syndrome" I can never leave anything stock, or follow plans to the letter, I like to improve on existing design whenever possible. I will ditch the cable setup for the control surfaces like you said, and use rigid pushrods.

dsjbean,

The float plane sounds like a neat idea. Could the landing gear be made removeable so it could be swapped from wheels to floats? I do have a small pond available for float flying, so may consider that. Do you happen to have any pics of your plane?
Twin .40s would be very nice on the wings, but I'm afraid that would be well beyond my capabilities as a builder. Sure would look good though. I'll probably end up with a larger 4 stroke on it when I'm done. The size of the plane along with the sound should make it pretty cool

Thanks again guys,

Dwight Hayden