RE: Northwest Model hobby Expo
We saw his table, he still had some old crusty Cox stuff there. We saw a couple of Atwood .049 powered mouse racers, 10-12 inch span.......they look like fun. The guy who was demonstrating Hobby Lobby DF units showed a combo that weighed an oz and put out 30 ozs of thrust. A pair of those could make alot of difficult scale projects feasible. I found some nylon props for .15 combat, some Perfect tin tanks and a little spun aluminum spinner for 1/2A. There was a .60 sized pattern kit with a fiberglass fuselage for $10, that would have been a treasure for a lot of modelers 15 years ago, but in todays' ARF society, it was just a junky relic. There was a battle bot that we saw that looked big enough to unload a semi at a loading dock. The 500 bldg. had some nice chainsaw engine powered warbirds, just a set of wheels and retracts would blow my hobby budget for a year! The hit of the show might have been the candle powered boats that were made out of shaving creme cans. The heat generated drew cold water in a U shaped tube and ejected steam with enough force to propel the boat. It could also run on cooking oil.