Decal for an engine? LOL No offense Richard to your work, I know for you it was a quick fix and something to paste to the baffle. The electric small scale guys do this all the time, they can't afford the extra weight. You're right it is no dummy because it's nothing but a picture. Not cheesy? Well I would disagree, welcome to RCU!

I'm mounting my cheesy engine to a ply former that I will glue to the cowl. One of the advantages to a 2 stroke in this particular plane is the short crank shaft housing, I was able to move the engine back more than 1" in order to shorten the nose. A disadvantage is the same thing! When it comes to mounting a cheesy engine it has to be mounted so far forward, but this is just a sport plane anyway!

Now here is what I did, not only did I go with the cheesy engine but I went with extra cheese! Just the way I like it! I glued the engine to the lite ply and added some CA and Micro-Balloons to the inside. Also I added a balsa ring to the crank case for extra support.

Then I addes some small pieces of balsa to act as pushrod housings, then cut some pushrods out of plastic tube. Then just some electrical wire for the spark wires.

Paint the black backround first, then the cylider heads, crankcase and pushrods then the wires.

Dion