very nice for you Gary. i have had great success as well with them. they sure make a great product. I have had my Super Stearman since 2004. I smacked it on asphalt two years ago on a low fly-by. It hit level and took off the carrage and muffler pipes. the gear whacked the lower wing. So, I tore it down and re-made it into a Navy version. Here are a few photo's. Hope you don't mind me sharing it with you. I went to a little too much trouble to put some scale detail in it but it think it will be impressive when it is done.
It has an old style G-23 for power. It is covered in Coverite 21st Centry fabric. I will be glad to elaborate on the stitching later but not on this post as it would be too involved. The roundell, star and red circles are coverite also ironed on. Quite easy actually. Very nice stuff to work with.
take care. It's good to conversate with modelers on the other side of the pond. You folks do some amazing stuff over there. I look forward to hearing from you. And yes I have flown it off of snow. I had to put stabilizing rods on the skis because I came out of a loop and they had shifted 'nose down' and created an elevator effect 'down' and I nearly lost it. It took full up and I cleared the ground by six feet of so. What a pucker factor!
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