ORIGINAL: speedster 1919
Lets get real. First of all If someone has a 120 size do you even think they would buy a 25 size. In real life the Gee Bee flew like a brick and killed everyone who got in them. They have the general look and If they are changed alittle to fly better great. For $89 your not going to enter a scale contest. I have a freind with a GP Stearman. To keep it scale they have a factory built weight tray to hold 18 OZ and thats what he has in the tray for weight. If the wings were moved say an inch or so forward It might fly better and lose the 1 1/2 pounds but then it wouldn't be scale. But Alas, either our porage is too hot or too cold , But never just right.....
I have the 120, and yes, I did want the 25 sized one also.
And the full scale plane flew fine, and the Delmar Benjamin replica still does.
And the models of this plane fly fine.
The 120 has some comprimise to make it fly better, sure, but the 25 one barely looks like a Gee Bee. It's not comprimise, it's cartoon. It's a bad job.
AK models does not make these. I believe they do make a line of very decent kits. They just recently started importing these kits. Most of which were already sold under other brand names by other people for quite some time, including this 25 sized Gee Bee.
Shame on them for showing a pic that is SO different from what you are really getting. No excuse. I would have wanted my money back if I had actually bought it.