ORIGINAL: steve111

Don't be too sorry, Bill, this was a pretty rough-looking model! It was built and finished as quickly as possibly, had various minor repairs painted in matt-black, non-fuelproof paint which kept rubbing off on everything, had crude ply doublers on the fuselage following a previous minor mishap, and at the time of its demise had a 'Fragile' sticker covering a hole in the wing tissue - this caused by Colin's seemingly irresistable urge to poke holes in the thing . Its life was always going to be short but fun. It might've been repairable but for the fact I went out of my way to build it as light as possible. As you say, ARFs are good and cheap, but I really enjoy designing and building them myself.

What are you going to do with an Enya 09 and a tuned pipe?! I've just acquired a new 09-IV (CL) - will probably knock up some sort of miniature Nobler-shaped thing for it once it's run-in.