VQ models
 

Just found out that VQ models is going to sell direct to the modeler at http://www.vqmodelaircraft.com/access.html.
Note the new prices and products.
Twinman

RE: VQ models
 

George:

Your link is "Broke." Use this one:

http://www.vqmodelaircraft.com/

That $650 forthe P-38 beats the pooh out of the $1000 Morris was charging. And the A-26 for $300. I'm tempted.

Bill.

RE: VQ models
 

Do any of you have any experience with the VQ models? I noticed that they have a pretty decent looking P-40 arf as well as the only P-51B arf that I have ever seen. They both look like planes that REALLY need to occupy my den.

RE: VQ models
 

BK:

Twinman has done both the P-38 and the A-26.

You can find the A-26 writeup on the VQ site, don't know where the P-38 review is.

George?

Bill.

RE: VQ models
 

One of our own in this forum has documented the building of the VQ P-38. @#$%@^55!!! Job that pays for this hobby is getting in the way of building mine. Whine Whine
Go to http://www.rcuniverse.com/forum/Vq_P..._901790/tm.htm
The title is VQ Assembly Begins.
There are other site here in the twin forum about this plane.
Like the built up type....uh easier to repair is the gravity god strikes!!
Good Luck,
Twinman

RE: VQ models
 

George:

Sorry, but I really thought by this time you would have stirred your lazy tail and put the P-38 together.

I guess it just shows how you can misjudge some people.

Haw.

Glad I don't have to do that any more. Work for a living, I mean.

Bill.

RE: VQ models P-40
 

beardking
I just went to the VQ site and they are posting the assembly instructions for their P-40. If you are the typical modeler and don't like to read, you will love their instructions. Mostly pictures and little wording, but I had little trouble building the A-26.
Good Luck,
Twinman

RE: VQ models
 

Does anyone know what VQ or any other arf manufactuer are useing for paint on their warbirds? Thanks

RE: VQ models
 

Twinman and William, thanks both of you for the information. As much as I gripe (to myself mostly) about some of the differences in this new site, I love how I can ask a question in the morning and have plenty of answers by the afternoon. Oh, and William, I hate you (referring to you not having to work for a living anymore. I just got a financial statement in the mail last night that said that my "projected" retirement year is 2042. That's just WRONG :D )

RE: VQ models
 

BeardKing:

Visualize my thumbs in my ears with my tongue stuck out and pointing at you while I say "NYAAHH!! NYAAHH!!"

Haw.

Bill.

RE: VQ models
 

William, visualise the "gesture" my fingers are forming right now. :D

RE: VQ models
 

I will ass-u-me that is what I call the "Italian Salute."

An up and down wave of the hand, but with the hand formed into a fist and one finger extended vertically, a cheerily spoken "North America" to go with it. Or was that "Upper US" that he said?

Haw.

Bill.

RE: VQ models
 

George, I hate to tel you this but that Avitar your using has been being used by others already. No I wont say that its looks are a step up [sm=biggrin.gif][sm=cool.gif][sm=biggrin.gif]

RE: VQ models
 

Just looked at the VQ website at http://www.vqmodelaircraft.com/aircraft.html and they have cut the prices around 5% across the board........the P-38 now $584.99 and others down 5%. Not sure what is going on, but life is good.

Hey Bill, you were interested in the A-26 at $300 now $270 you need it.....particularly if you are not working as the rest of us poor slobs!!!!
Twinman

RE: VQ models
 

I would only venture to guess that their expected sales are down so they are lowering their price....
VQ kits' covering leave a lot to be desired, very heavy!
The two kits I had had a very weak spar in the Horiz. stab....
These are my guesses and personal observations.

RE: VQ models
 

George:

And next week it might be down to $220. If it is I'll jump on it.

And George, I work very hard. You can not imagine how hard it is to go flying, patch bARFs that I get careless with, pull maintenance on the twins and build more, and among all these terribly hard jobs I have to stop to eat and sleep.

A very hard job I'm going to have to do in the next few days is stroke a check for the radials to go in the new F7F. The hard part isn't actually writing the check, of course. But think. How many turbines could I buy for that money? And how many VQ A-26 kits?

Haw.

Feel jealous, you wage slaves!

Bill.