Darren

Well a little more progress, got to get it done before my 1/4 scale Cap arrives and I get drawn into that Onto the wings the leading edges are now fitted and everything is roughly to shape. Need to get some finer sand paper tomorrow and remove cutouts for servos, retracts etc before joining the panels. Have taped the wings together to get an impression of the finished model - see below.

More than happy to, you know the price

Oh well, the bank balance has taken another hammering - my new 1/4 (ish) scale CAP232 is on it's way. Better get those Spitfire wings joined before the big box arrives at the weekend. Joe - decided to go with the 26cc MVVS on the advice of Glen. Power of the Zenoah but only the weight of an OS 120fs plus a battery.

Looks good

Well. fuselage is done for now. Need the wing before I can finish the wing seat, fill those little imperfections and give it a final sand. Need to build up the profile again where I've let in the tail wheel.

Couldn't agree more. I've had a couple of 40 size Caps and Sukhois, these were the ARTF's that Pete Tindal seels/sold. Kits were nice but they had to be flown and despite saying they were for .25 engines they really neede .40/.46 My 1.60 Extra flys easier despite being 3 times the size and powered by a 36cc petrol engine. If it must be a cap/sukhoi/extra style then I'd recommend going for a 60/90 size Let us know what you decide and post some pics

Well the fuselage is coming along and starting to get close to it's final shape. A fair amount of fettling of F1 and F2 was needed to make the glass cowl fit, a bit of a gap to the side cheeks but nothing a slice of balsa won't fill. The fuselage bottom has been attacked with chisel and sanding bar to get the shape most of the way there. Final sanding, shaping of fin & stab is next and that's the fuse done. Oh, managed to break off the ply cockpit loop during the sanding, I'd suggest leaving the fitting of that until later.

Oh, what I would give to have a day like that Anyway Don, looking good, can't wait to see it all finished and in one big piece

Not everything has gone to plan, the precut fuselage sides are too short, so I?ve had to pad out the back end a little and I?m not sure that it?s quite right yet. Once the fin and tail post is in place I?ll finish off the fuse sides before the final sanding. The plan is to use Roger?s Basildon bond, pva and paint method with a bit of weathering, the kit includes decals but again being a bit of a rebel I might go for something different. I hope to have the fuse bashed into shape and ready for covering by the end of easter and the wings shouldn?t be too far behind

Fuselage is built on a central horizontal lite ply crutch with foam rear deck. Lower fuselage sides are precut balsa (a bit short ? more of that later). With a busy work and family life it takes me a long time to make any progress, it took me 18 months to finish a Wot4, but so far the fuselage build has been really quite swift. After a week, the fuselage is almost complete save the final profiling with my perma-grit bar. The majority of the front fuse is a glass fibre cowl extending well back beyond the leading edge which saves quite a bit of balsa bashing.

Let's be honest, the majority of people who get into model flying want to fly a Spit. Fortunately common sense usually prevails and something a bit tamer arrives in the hangar first. I've also always been a bit of a rebel and wanted to do something different and for this reason I've had two me109's in my fleet and never a Spitfire. This isn't actually true, I did buy a Top Flite kit but after about 12months and only having found the time to build the stab and fin sold the lot with engine and retracts to Roger and he's currently hauling it around the sky. However as the Spit is 70 this y

Was planning to come flying today but we had an occurrence of that dreaded kiddie related thing "dire rear" - I think this spelling is much more descriptive

For those of you who read Radio Control Model Flyer, you'll have seen a review of this kit in the April edition. Given it's the 70th anniversary of the Spit, I've never owned one and everyone is building one, thought I'd get in on the action as well. Kit is here, fuselage assembly has started and I'm making notes and taking pictures as I go. I'll start posting here soon.

When you make a post, at the bottom of the form there is an 'add an attachment' section, browse for your file, add a comment and click the add attachment button. You can add as many as you like but the images must be no bigger than 640x480. Perhaps Gary can shed some light on the photobucket issue.

Don, Don't know why that isn't working but I'm not going to have any time to look into it over the next couple of weeks, you'll just have to use the standard attachment method instead.

Don - I've just uploaded a couple of pictures in the Southern Model Airshow section. Can you send me a PM with details of your problems and I'll look into it.

Here are a couple of shots of the show taken from the air - thanks to Neil Tidey for the 2003 picture and Tony van Geffen for the 2005 shot

oh, so it was you .......

I'm warming up the camera for the first flight - DO NOT fly it without me being there

I'm doing a ground up build review in the Electric section, see http://www.camfc.co.uk/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=45

Guys, Thanks for the feedback, been on the RCV engines website and they recommend a 13x13 4 blader with the RCV 60. Think this would be ideal for the 1/8 semi-scale spit (56" span) Time for a few phone calls and a flexing of the plastic I think

A good write up in the latest RCMF, despite Ken having a couple of "senior" moments and getting a few details wrong. All the signs are that the show is going to continue to improve for 2006, look out for more details here shortly.

Anyone have any experience with these motors and 4 blade props? I know it's semi-scale, but I'm tempted by a http://www.warbirdsreplica.com Spitfire and it seems that an RCV60 might be a good motor. The 2:1 gearing also suggests that a smaller, multi blade but bigger pitch prop would be feasible Or should I just bung in the old reliable OS52fs

I've been in touch with John London and despite settling down and giving up the mobile life, he hasn't got back into flying again and says he's not sure he will Can't believe that myself and I hope he does find the inspiration to pick it up again. I hope it wasn't the trauma of all those years teaching me and others that contributed to him hanging up the TX I've told to keep an eye on the forum and to put up a post from time to time, I hope he stays in touch.

There already is a helicopter section