Well, I started this kit before I found this site...but first a little history. I was taking my son (who's almost two) to daycare and he spotted a yellow airplane flying pretty low. It was a crop duster and at first I thought it was real, we pulled into the parking lot of the park got out and made introductions and sure enough there were several RC planes on the deck. The group of guys for the most part are retired. My son and I hung out for about an hour before I took him to daycare, of course he wanted to get down and touch every "car car" (anything with wheels at this point is still a car to him) but I held him. Before I left the guys said if I were interested in flying they'd teach me. So on September 16, 08 I bought my first plane the Alpha 40, 3 weeks later I did my fist solo (thanks to my team of trainiers!) and shortly there after one of the guys sold me his BUSA E III kit out of his collection of kits. So with all that said I gave up saltwater tanks as a hobby after 5 years and now i'm HOOKED on this one!

I didn't find this site until after the build was started so what i'm going to do is post pics of slight changes i'm doing to the kit to make it a little more "scale". I'm also going to do the E III LF 70 scheme, just to be a little different and make the thread interesting. At this point i'm almost ready to attach the wing to the fuse. I will post pics of everything i do from this point on.

In the pics below you will see the rear fuse "framed". The instructions called for this to be covered with balsa sheets and I did infact do that, however; after reading several other threads and seeing pictures of the completed E III's in flight where changes had been made, I decided I wanted to see the structures under the fabric...to look more scale.