Again.........thanks one and all. It's the love for agplanes that really drove me to put that much detail into it. I had my Flair kit, a 1/4 scale Stearman PT-17 for a little over a year before I maidened her....also very detailed....and tension and fear was gone by then, and I was much more confident flying her. I had no doubt that the PT-17 would be a great flyer, but to prevent the shakey thumb thing, I just had to wait. It's a psychological thing I guess - did I spell that right? Well, you know what I mean. I had to get my head screwed on tight for the first flight....and forgotten the hours and hours of work. I wonder if this works for others besides me? I've done my Pawnee thing....now there's another guy around these parts who has the exact same Pawnee short kit as me. You're next, Jeff28, to decorate these pages with a 1/4 scale pawnee. The 'big boy'....planes like these you only see in Europe where rc models tend to be bigger overall. I gotta say, though, scaling her up was fun and basically easy because of the large size.