Good day everyone!

Been a while since I started a new thread on a plane so I'm a little out of practise but ok here goes. I figured I'll put this in the 3D forum as I need help choosing a motor for this model to get a good power to weight yet light wingloading combination. Those who knows me will know I have a fairly decent fleet of 3D profiles flying and well I've been in the market for something fat again for quite a while as I wanted something to have fun with and also draw a straighter line across the sky with to practise my precision skills a little. The profiles I have just don't cut it and are just frustrating to say the least when it comes more patternish aerobatics. So yea I still aim to one day save up and get something big like a H9 260 with a DA50 but at the moment other priorities made that idea impossible. Friday afternoon I stumble into the LHS (Yes it's my home away from home) and BAM this sucker just can't stop begging me to take it home. It was a kind of "Love at first sight" thing. Got it for a really good deal and it also retails here for $216, who can resist at that price?

Now ok in all fairness I'll never get my hopes for it to 3D well if at all as previous experience already taught me that smaller fatties just don't do it but ok I'm still going to build it with the mindset that it might.

So here's the deal thus far. It's a 63" wingspan model so a nice and comfy size. Covered fully in Oracover (Didn't triple check but sure looks like the stuff). All laser cut construction with extreme lightning techniques used all over the place like holes in the leading edge sheeting blah blah so the idea is right barring it stays in one piece upstairs. What some would call airfoiled tail feathers (Dunno it's a funny one to describe but yes it is sorta airfoiled..lol). Carbon fibre pushrod kits already included in the kit for all the surfaces except rudder which is pull-pull. Overall I can't say ANYTHING bad about the quality of the plane thus far and bare in mind I hate ARFS for the quality issues they had in the past with covering etc. But from what I've seen till now on this thing I have to ask how in the world they build these things for this price?!?!

Ok so last night I unpacked everything and started weighing all the components to try and figure out a AUW so I can choose the right motor. I added everything I could possible think of including 6X40gram servos, switch, leads, reciever, epoxy (I hope I added too much), a very heavy battery (Yes with the idea to save weight later on that), prop, stickers everything and got to 2950grams WITHOUT motor. That's about 6.46lbs for everything except motor/exhaust and fuel. Now which motor to choose?

Terribly sorry for the long post. Hopefully it was interesting enough to read. I decided to blurt it all out since I couldn't find anything through the search on rcu on the plane.