hey guys i just have to say you guys are the best tons of help ..... any way i am looking for a .60 size me 109 kit for my father inlaw any ideas where you find one

skyshark used to make one www.skysharkrc.com but they discontinued there kit line, there now releasing there warbird kits and the rumor is the Me109 is going to be offered soon.

then there's the VQ warbirds ARF 109 http://vqwarbirds.com/

and the high end KMP arf which is a high quality offering http://www.vqwarbirds.com/products/a...t/ME-109E.html

kyosho also makes a ARF Me109 as well

CMPRo (AK-Models.com) also has a ME-109, but it a 120 sze

Unfortunately there are not many options in the .60 size German Luftwaffe planes. You'd think one of these companies would fill the niche. Big companies like Top Flite have produced .60 size German planes (FW190D-9) but discontinued it. I don't think the German planes sell as well as the allied ones, which is a shame. Being patriotic is one thing, but with all the allied planes you'd think there would be some German planes around. You don't have to agree with what occurred outside the fighting in WW2 to respect the Luftwaffe Pilots, they showed just as much bravery and skill as any allied pilot. "We can wish in one hand....", as the saying go's. If you want to scratch build you can find plans much easier than a kit. You could always send the plans to a kit cutter as well and they will cut you a short kit (all the ribs, formers and anything that has to be cut to a certain shape), you provide the stick balsa. Bryan Taylor has some .60 size ME plans a "63in and a "68in I think, Bob Holman (bhplans.com) might still have some, but since Taylor sold rights to his planes to Traplet Publications Bob probably won't be carrying them anymore. You can get them from Traplet Publications direct also, but i think they are based in the UK. Impscale (Impscale.com) also as a .60 size ME109F/G "65in wing. He also has the cowls and all the bumps and blisters last I checked, he also had flying spinners for it. Impscale has been backed up on kits, so it would be faster to just buy the plans from Imp and send them to a kit cutter...LaserLizard.com does really great work by all accounts, has a quick turn around, roughly two weeks. For a .60 size short kit through LaserLizard.com (last I checked) it's $13 to scan the plans per sheet, $75 set up fee (all the computer work to tell the laser what to cut) and $150 for your short kit. Any plans you get should tell you what stock (sticks and sheets) is needed to complete. You can order that through any number of places like TowerHobbies or BalsaUSA. BalsaUSA has excellent wood and you don't have to buy it in stacks of 6 or 10 when you only need 2 (Midwest Balsa carried by tower comes in stacks like that). I bought all the wood through BalsaUSA to scratch build a Focke Wulf 190A-8 along with the Piano wire for the elevator joiner, tailwheel strut, light ply's, 1/4 Ply's, All sheeting and sticks for $74. Of course you can also get your balsa through your local hobby shop and hand select all your own wood.

I feel your pain in the lack of German kits tho, I'm currently having a "84 Giant Scale ME109 short kit cut. Hope any of this info is useful to you.

If it was for i would just scratch build it for myself but it is for my father inlaw he dont think he could scratch built it but i will lethim know that maybe very useful later now tho thank you tons did not know of places to that kinda thing i amstill flying a trainer and building others to past time and the winter season while i am on layoff from work.

Scratch building only seems more daunting....at first. One page of your plans will be all of the parts (ribs,formers etc.), cut out the paper templates, trace them onto your balsa (the plans will tell you what balsa to use....1/16th, 3/32, 1/8th Lite Ply etc.) For most of the balsa...except thicker parts like wing and elevator tips (I use a scroll saw on these and the Ply parts), all you need is a hobby knife and a box of #11 blades. It takes more time, because your cutting the parts, but it's no more difficult than a kit build, only requires patience. When I first started kit building I was talking to the owner of the local shop I always go to, who is an avid scratch builder. He suggested I get into scratch building. My first thought was, "I could never do that". It was the lack of .60 size German planes that pushed me to my first scratch build (still in progress, just need to finish the fuse up) and I've enjoyed it thoroughly, I wouldn't hesitate to scratch build another plane I could only find the plans for. A .60 size scratch build really doesn't take all that long and when you told your uncle you hand cut every single piece in the plane it'd probably mean that much more, to the point that he may never fly it .

On the "84 ME109 I decided to have a short kit cut because it is my absolute favorite plane ever produced and after just finishing one scratch build, didn't want to dive right into another. I still have a Top Flite P-47 to finish and Top Flite P-40 to build as well and scratch building a Giant Scale from scratch will only delay those from going on the board. Being my first Giant Scale, I want it to be absolutely immaculate. It will probably be the first plane I go nuts on detailing.

On a side note, Precision Cut Kits (PrecisionCutKits.com) does cut the Dave Platt ME109 with a 79.5in wingspan in several kit variations including a Short Kit and a Full Kit, but by all accounts the Platt ME109 is a very easy plane to build even from scratch, and scratch building it is what may be recommended to you as the kit price is a little high for the easy build that it is. Dave Platt also has his own website where you can buy his plans, just type Dave Platt into your preferred search engine. You can find a lot of plane kits at PrecisionCutKits.com but keep in mind the majority of them are giant scale. I like to go there on occasion just to look around and "ooh and ahh" at all the planes I don't have.

There are a lot of Axis planes available, you just have to look for them outside the usual avenues. Any plane can be cut into a kit for you, all you need is the plan. Good Luck! let us all know how it go's, post a build log for us in the kit building forum and feel free to ask anyone here for help. There are a lot of guys around here that are absolute saviors when it comes to needing help. This board and a large majority of it's members are absolutely invaluable when you get stuck.

http://www.nitroplanes.com/cmpmebf10h12.html

73" span instead of 63" lot more scale features not on a 60 size.

I have recently purchased a CMP ME-109 which I believe is in between 1/6 and 1/5 scale. I was looking at the Sunshine 1:6 me-109 out of Germany but the CMP is a better deal for now. A 1/6 Me-109 would fit the .60 engine and also the ton of luftwaffe figures in 1/6 scale from Dragon or BBI. Sunshine can be found here
http://shop.wega-sunshine.com/index....16ecd4d8c35e18



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