I have tried to have restraint. At one point, with kits, I did have a Senior Miss Stick and the Decathlon in the box. It's hard! I did decide that I needed to finish the Miss Stick, my first stick build, no pun intended. I immediately started the Decathlon during which I was overcome with a terrible urge to build a quarter scale Stinson SR-10... but I've resisted so far. Then I went to a swap meet and came home with a GeeBee Tiger moth kit. So, I still put off the Stinson until the Decathlon is finished and until I at least start the Tiger Moth. Meanwhile, there's a EF Yak 54 74" ARF still sitting in the box waiting for the bench and that's next. Then there's the 'C'heapo 'M'odelPro 4M glider. It's an ARF which really stands for 'A'll 'R'eady to 'F'ix. The model was cheap... a pile of model for the money. It looks like however the parts were put into the fuse using something between hot melt and epoxy and it's all pretty easy to remove. So, yes, a good bit is rebuild. The spoilers drag badly and are not removable without major wing surgery, so I'm very slowly making progress by dragging sandpaper along side them and working a bit more with a dremel with a sanding disk. Still very tedious and time consuming, but they're getting better and better! I have plans to put a 4130 on the nose of this thing, so, this poor glue stuff is not really a bad thing as I need to remove the stuff to do some fiberglass reinforcement anyway. Supposedly the thing flies pretty good.... At the same swap, one of our club members gave me a fairly busted up Carl Goldberg 76" Cub. A bit of fuse glue work, a bit of tail glue work and some covering should make it look just fine as it's the army covering and some patches should make it look like a war veteran. I did finally get my Night Glider off the bench. It's an EGPro filled with LEDs. Wow the soldering... over and over and over and over. So, I'm faithfully putting in the time on the Decathlon, have the Yak planned for the bench next... then the Cub repairs then the Tiger Moth. Meanwhile I keep watching for the perfect engine for the Stinson just in case one comes up... I do have the plans but am resisting ordering the kit. And I've decided I need to completely reorganize my totally disorganized workshop. If I can get some junk cleaned out, I can pull my workbench out. It's one of those old school shop workbenches... very nice. If I pull it out I could use both ends of it and have two planes going at a time. That would help me deal with epoxy drying times. Things like gluing robart hinges....

It's been cool and rainy here now for like 4 days. The humidity in my Decathlon wood is very high. I did a bit of light sanding to discover one should sand during these times. It sort of rolls around instead of sanding off. And then I started thinking about it when it dries out and then I could have some low spots from the wood shrinking back. The east coast sure does have to deal with a lot of humidity. And, I don't see myself as having a climate controlled workshop ever, although it would be nice.

Yup, it's easy to get a lot of projects. I'm really trying very hard to limit myself. And now flying season is just about to come on full swing. This of course means that I'll have addition projects lining up for the bench. You know, those repairs.... dumb thumbs... failures... I've gotten to the point where it is not very often pilot error anymore and that feels really good, but it does seem that at times everything that's flying starts to line up for service.

Isn't this hobby fun?