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Old 07-31-2009 | 11:51 PM
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Default RE: An MK 20 Size Conservation Project

Bryan,

good to hear from you. Thanks for your interest in the project.

I haven't gotten around to scanning the plans yet. Thankfully there are a number of people eager to help with the CAD work. Of course, it will be good to try and share the workload so as we make progress with the project, there may be other kits that will come along. There will be no shortage of CAD work to be done if the project continues successfully.

Good to know that you have a Magic kit in your collection. My understanding is that Pedro has offered to do the tracing and CAD work of the Magic from his kit. Should there be something missing from either of your kits, perhaps the one could assist the other.

As mentioned earlier in the thread, my goal is to re-produce these kits so that modelers interested in building a 20 size MK kit can do so in the absence of the discontinued originals. Ideally this would come in the form of a "not so short" kit including plans and canopies. Things like hardware are a personal choice so no need to include that with the kits.

It would be really nice to find a source for a Skymaster. It's one of the few 20 size designs with a concealed pipe however, some additional work would be needed to re-create it as it came with a FG fuse top under which the pipe ran. If we should be so lucky as to find one, perhaps then Chuck could put his great composite talents at producing a fuse deck for this rare model.

David.