Well at 87 years old I finally came into the 21st century by joining rc groups .and promptly screwed up like Hogan's goat. I will plead the fifth on all the details ! Ah well, stuff happens as it says on the T shirt.
I have been making model airplanes since 1943 and although one might think I have many years of experience it's really more like one year's experience 74 times over. Not quite as bad as that sounds. I am a reasonable model builder but a long way from top notch. Having said all that I have to confess that I prefer scratch built or kit built over foamies but I do have some of the latter. It takes so long to build with sticks and Monokote that I fully appreciate the popularity of the modern foamy. My foamies are a Tiger Moth, a Grumman Panther plus a Mig 15 still in the box. People simply don't have the time to screw around for months just to finish one 'plane.
To go with the foamy Tiger Moth I have a scratch built Gypsy Moth the same size. I have always liked the Gypsy Moth for appearance. Of course all that stuff is subjective so I don't expect everyone to agree with me.
Currently scratch building a 54 inch Pietnpol. I bought the Dumas indoor kit and enlarged the plans plus I have a small copy of the full size plans. All electric of course. I would never go back to nitro although I love the four strokes. I also have an Osprey sailplane that I bought from Soaring USA. I have never flown it and am thinking of getting rid of it. (we all have too much stuff)Too many other projects to enumerate here. What? What? Who said "Me too?" Anyone? Bueller? Anyone?
That's it for now.