So now Christmas is approaching and the weather outside is frightful. I have abandoned deer hunting this year and instead have been building the backlog of ARF's I have accumulated over the years, including an Accel profile Pitts (chronicled in it's own thread) and a yello P 51 with retracts that I think really came out AWESOME for a no name Chinese kit. Or maybe my building skills are getting better? Who knows. The Pitts flys GREAT, but I haven't flown the 'Stang yet. Bring on the Spring!

Back on topic, the Tiger Moth is moving along. I spent a few more hours on it installing the tail feather pushrods and a tailwheel. I decided to go ahead and use the wheels (main and tail) that came with the kit even tho they are heavy just for ha ha's sake. The instructions kind of leave you up in the air on the tailwheel install, but they do give you a piece of wire to bend into shape. So I bent it and put it tho a short length of pushrod tube which I glued into a groove I carved on the very end of the fuse. A dob of glue on the top and the bottom of the wire gave me a serviceable free moving tailwheel. After observing that the top of the axle was very close to the forward edge of the rudder, I added a bit of glue there tying the tailwheel to the rudder and thereby creating a steerable tailwheel. We'll see how long it lasts.

With all servos installed it was time to wire up the esc, add the receiver and battery and see if it all works. It does! I thought it might be cool to taxi the naked plane around my kitchen floor for a bit, and I was right! LOL! She seems to want to go. Now it is time to finish the covering, install the top wing, shrinky dink the silkspan and shoot it with some paint. At this rate, come springtime she might be ready to maiden! Here's some pics I took this morning. And a shot of the Mustang.