I remember from my winters in Michigan and then in NY, laying up my boat for the winter. Fill the tank to the top for winter. Pump the head and bildge and add antifreeze to water system and drains. Batteries inside. Raidos and other electronics came home for the winter.

Not much of this applies to models but filling the tank and plugging the lines may. The boat batteries were like car batteries, lead/acid and if they went dead, they could freeze over and break. From Minflyers experience, it looks as if this isn't an issue.

Most electronics have a minimum storage temp and humidity. There is little that I can think of that would possibily be damaged from extreme cold. Moisture and freezing is another issue. As long as things are dry, all should be well. The engines should be gone over for storage though. I don't use after run on a day to day basis, but if I were putting an engine up for an outside winter, I would hose it full of after run.

One thing I haven't heard mentioned is mice. When I was a kid, I built a $1.00 Commet kit B29 bomber. I saved for months to get the price of the kit an a tube of glue. The only place I had to build was our garage and it had a gravel floor. After school hours were dedicated to building this model. I got it finished and the tisue paper on and wow what a sight. The next day, my uncle came to the house and I dragged him to the garage to see what I had built. You can't imagine how upset I was when I found the mice had eaten all of the covering off the plane and most of the stringers in the process. Fast forward to the winter of 1983-1984. I had decided to store my sailboat at home, not at the ship yard where it had spent the last couple winters. I did all of the winterizing stuff but one thing I didn't do was to take off all of the 1/2" lines holding the boat to the cradle and trailer for transport. Exactly eight gang planks for the mice. The spring of 1984 was a night mare as far as the boat went. I had mice all through the boat. Stink, nest, more stink, and throw in some more stink for good measure.

Don't leave you planes where the mice can find a way in. All of those tight little wings with little holes, make an execelent winter home for mice. YUCK. Hang them from some small bare wires that they can't climb. And make sure there is no way for a jump from a rafter to a wing or tail is possible. What ever winter can dish up, the mice can trump.

Don