ORIGINAL: gboulton
3) Field Box. IMO, new hobbyists (and old too) waste more money on these contraptions than any other piece of equipment. There are DOZENS of threads on the web with plans for building your own at far less than half the cost of a retail unit. Even better (imo) is the Stanley portable 'double decker' tool box. Available at Wal Mart for <$30 it holds more than any field box, is more easily transportable due to having wheels, and can be easily cut/hacked/modified/drilled/etc to mount all sorts of later goodies, like fuel pumps, power panels, plane racks, etc, should you want these items. Call this another $20 savings or so.
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I only spent fifty on the goldberg field box kit i bought(the biggest one they had). i priced out the lumber for it.....and well you cant hardly buy all the stuff to put it together, plus its precut, you just joint it. just my .02$ but illd have rather paid an extra ten or fifteen buxs for a pre-cut job than have to do it all myself and have it come out messy
btw, i would recommend the hobbistar60, and a super tigre .75 before the nexstar any day of the week......shrt time ive been flying ive seen to much and heard of much more going wrong with them. Hobbistar has been a good flying bird for me so far