I love the old-school WWI planes - the style, the colors, the history, etc., and it's fairly obvious to the regulars around here that I also like bigger planes. For quite a while now I've been looking at swap meets and for-sale ads for a deal on a balsa kit, but they're pretty rare. Smaller (1/6th or 1/5th scale) kits appear occasionally, but few 1/4 or 1/3 scale.
My ship has come in, as a flying buddy told me he knows a guy who is interested in my glow engine powered Zero, and would trade a new-in-box Turnigy 58cc gas engine for it. I've already got two of those engines, one in my 1/3 scale Cessna 150 and another for my 1/3 scale Cessna L-19 Bird Dog. It's a decent engine, and although I'm still breaking my first one in I like what I see so far, so I agreed to it.
Today the swap was made, even-up Zero for the Turnigy engine. The trigger was also pulled on a plane for it. Well, PLANS for the plane.... I ordered a set of plans for a 1/3 scale Fokker D-VIII, a high-wing German fighter. The actual build won't happen for quite a while as there are other planes that need to be finished, including the big L-19 Bird Dog, a 1/3 scale Sopwith Pup, and probably a few others as well, but the engine will keep until then.
An additional benefit from this trade, technically my collection of planes has been reduced by 1. I'll make sure my wife knows I'm getting rid of planes, she'll be thrilled!
As long as she doesn't start counting the ones remaining - she won't be happy if she figures out how many are still here!
Here are a couple examples of the "Flying Razor" with very different schemes.
My ship has come in, as a flying buddy told me he knows a guy who is interested in my glow engine powered Zero, and would trade a new-in-box Turnigy 58cc gas engine for it. I've already got two of those engines, one in my 1/3 scale Cessna 150 and another for my 1/3 scale Cessna L-19 Bird Dog. It's a decent engine, and although I'm still breaking my first one in I like what I see so far, so I agreed to it.
Today the swap was made, even-up Zero for the Turnigy engine. The trigger was also pulled on a plane for it. Well, PLANS for the plane.... I ordered a set of plans for a 1/3 scale Fokker D-VIII, a high-wing German fighter. The actual build won't happen for quite a while as there are other planes that need to be finished, including the big L-19 Bird Dog, a 1/3 scale Sopwith Pup, and probably a few others as well, but the engine will keep until then.
An additional benefit from this trade, technically my collection of planes has been reduced by 1. I'll make sure my wife knows I'm getting rid of planes, she'll be thrilled!
As long as she doesn't start counting the ones remaining - she won't be happy if she figures out how many are still here! Here are a couple examples of the "Flying Razor" with very different schemes.
