In 1997, after about a 12 year hiatus from the hobby (had to get through university you see... ended up staying a little too long [:-]), I saw this ship in a magazine and had to have it. Inspiration for the hobby returned along with a small but great working space and 3 months of uninterrupted building time (between the end of a seemingly ongoing stream of 8x11 sheets of paper saying "congrats! you've got another one" and... the job. Yup! You guessed it, back to the same old trenches except 4000 miles away in beautiful Oregon). So it was that I got started on the Tsunami and a couple of other projects. Unfortunately (I won't go into the details of why), it never got finished and ended up bubble wrapped and shipped around the continent a few times. Before its first semi-complete shipment, of course the inevitable happened. Something very heavy fell on it (you don't want to know...). Sad, I wrapped it and said, one day I'll fix it and it will be beautiful.

Time passed and low and behold the hobby left me again as the little toddlers started to appear in my life. Then, one crisp Spring morning this year, I had the day to myself and decided to head for a good coffee, croissant and why not... a magazine. Went to the magazine shop and wham! MAN fell into my hands (well, not literally, we know the meaning of MAN right?) I was psyched (I was going to say pumped but that would be putting a foot in the mouth twice - dang! almost thrice... I'm going to have to edit this post). Anyway, I thought the arrival of 2.4 GHz, Brushless Outrunners, Lipo's and all the rest was the best thing since sliced bread. And of course, I must not forget, RCU. Unfortunately though it looked like the existence of "the kit" had vanished and the hobby had reduced to "assembling" rather than "crafting" models.

Anyhow, after coffee, I went home, made a huge mess and found my 20 year old RC stuff... bliss! I had to have my go with outrunners and lipo's so I hit two small scale projects (a Texan and a FW-190) and found out that I was possibly better with the old Xacto than I used to be. And so it is that we reach this junction. The Tsunami has been debubbled and after first addressing the hangar rash (more like it being hand swiped by King Kong!), I've decided to attempt to finish it.

This might move slowly as I have a few too many other projects "on the table" that will also have to be addressed and it will be a matter of priority (the highest of which will be for a twin pair of GP Tipo's). Also, this being my first RCU build thread, it might be a touch "light" in detail but hopefully offer something of interest to others who may have built or are building this now classic pattern plane. In the process, I'll feed on your know how, derive inspiration ... and hopefully get the da*n bird in the air (or at least ready for it)!

First images coming...