ORIGINAL: BrentL

I have a confession to make.

I'm not as handy as I thought I was, and my Avistar is, um, unique.

For starters, there are the fingerprints. If this plane is ever stolen, or used as a murder weapon, it won't take CSI long to trace it back to me. It has my fingerprints all over it. Permanently. In epoxy resin.

Then, the wings. The little instruction book says that once the wings are joined, there shouldn't be any gaps. Well I think 'shouldn't be' is pretty strong language from a guy who writes instruction books for a living, and there's about half a mm gap on the leading edge, where the two halves join. I think it adds character, but hey.

The aileron servo cradle under the wing is also no longer original equipment. Who knew that balsa was THAT flimsy?!! It has since been reconstructed and it now fits perfectly. Bespoke coachwork on my very first plane - how posh is that?

Now, all we need to see is what happens when it goes up into the air.

Anyone else had difficulty with a '90% complete' ARF? They're much more complicated (to me at least) than the box makes them out to be.