Stavros

Sorry it took so long to reply. Basically, I really love my Excelleron. I changed engines from the EVO 100 to an OS 1.20 AX which turned out to be an excellent choice of engines. The excelleron flys just great. I did note the covering needed some care, ironing where bubbles appeared, however, it was somewhat minor and it came out good. One item, the tail wheel. There is a small section of balsa that gets glued on directly in front of the rudder on the bottom of the fuselage. The tail wheel goes on there and uses part of the tail wheel torque arm that gets glued into the rudder for motion. Mine did not last very long. I ended up epoxing the balsa part back on making it much stronger, then used a Sullivan type tail wheel with the larger of the two springs. Much better and seems to be handling my landings well.

Regarding the Venus II, though, I have one on 'lay away' at my local hobby shop mainly because I really loved my Venus 40 and enjoy flying this 90 size pattern model. I will have the Venus in a couple weeks and will take advantage of the info found in this thread for building mine and some improvements that I will incorporate during the build. And, probably will go with another OS 1.20.

So, the Excelleron 90 performs very well. As far as the quality of parts, well, I used most of what came with the model, but did not use the metal hinges and ended up swapping out the tail wheel assembly.

DS.