Here are some more notes for those that follow on the assembly of the .60 size.

I'm almost done with it.

Gluing the belly pan on was a major pain. Took about 2 hours of fitting and sanding and fitting and sanding. I never did get it perfect but it's close.
I ended up gluing it on using lots of masking tape and weight to hold all the corners down. While it was drying one weight slipped so it now has a gap on that edge. Bummer.

The tail is kind of a poor design. The fiberglass fin cover took major sanding to get it to fit and it still left a gap over the horizontal stab by a 1/4 inch. 1/4 was sanded off the top only back by the rudder. There was just no way to get it to come down to cover the gap. Don't know how to fix that one. This fiberglass piece should have been eliminated and just build the fuse all the way back with slots for the fin and stab.

The elevators are a problem in that when you fit them to the stab with the hinges, the hinge width was not planned for and counter balances end up being 1/8 inch short on the stab. I guess I could have corrected this by sanding out some of the leading edge bevel in the elevator.

The landing gear need redrilled larger for the bolts that are provided.

I was shorted 4 connectors on the tail control horn gizmo and 6 screws for the cowl and canopy. Some other hardware pack was included with a couple of rods and two screws. have no idea where these go and they are not the plans/instructions.

Mounting the cowl is a problem in that you are supposed to reinforce the cowl mounting holes on the back with plywood, but the space inside is so restricted there is no way to reach it.
I strengthen the holes with CA and will see what happens. The instruction say to use a hanger off the front of the motor mount to support the front of the cowl. There is no way you would ever be able to get that to line up or get it bent right.

Almost done now and I have about 20 hours in this ARF. My longest building arf by far. I once did a GP Extra in a weekend < 10 hours.

I'm off to the hobby shop to buy another pull-pull as I messed this one up, pick up some screws for the cowl and some clevises.

It sure looks cool.

snyder_man