Turbojoe
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I'm definitely in for the next build. I like the idea of a theme as opposed to a single design build. The water plane would interest me, I've been wanting to do a Herr J3 on floats for the spring.
Another idea I had was to do a stick and tissue rubber power build and see if we could get a 15 minute time slot at FF17 for a mass launch like they started doing at Top Gun down in Lakeland.
Too bad you're on the far side of the continent or I'd fix you up. I have a Herr J-3 AND a NIB set of Herr floats for it. I bought the plane 3/4 built POORLY and spent considerable time fixing everything. I later decided I had enough J-3 Cubs and wanted to convert this to a Tri-Pacer. Haven't finished that mod but it's an easy one. I may even build it as a J-3 with the floats as display only.
If you want the ultimate J-3 then it has to be the Mountain Models J-3. Twice the price of the Herr but less than half the weight and 5 times the scale appearance. With floats you'd need a little more power than specified but not much more. I live in the Phoenix area so not a lot of LOCAL water that they will let us use for recreation. You almost have to drive for hours to the Colorado river. That's NOT gonna happen! Never flown from water before but I'd love to try. My MM J-3 on floats would be my only consideration.
Joe
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