I made it , I have 3 Maidens to commit at this years fest ,so three heart stopper moment to go

All servos fitted and operating, just the pushrod connections for the aileron and flaps ,balance and its done

Getting close now , but still have lots to do to finish it up

Another step closer ,colour starting to go on the wings now , port wing upper surface done and rough fitted to the fuse for a bit of a bench fly

Almost done ,fuse complete just have to knock the wings over now , but I always leave the big flat easy to do surfaces to last

The LaGG-3 is looking more and more like an aircraft every day , very happy with how its turning out

Now the wing sheeting is almost done , This aircraft may make it to MSF 23 after all

Well the Build is well underway now ,Fuse and wings in their basic arrangement

Started drawing up my next build yesterday ,It's an LaGG 3

Now the new wings for the Hudson are complete , I had a day of cycling batteries for the fleet and to make sure all are good to fly ,also time to start thinking about my next build hmmm

I'm still continuing to complete the new wings for the Hudson in my free time away from the Catalina

So a lot of my time is being taken up working on the Catalina restoration , but since moving to our new building lifes a lot easier. I continue to restore the nose back to original configuration and its starting to look like it should again ....Continue Reading

So , I have continued slowly building a new weight reduced set of wings for my Hudson, the original set were far to heavy and I just sat the model aside for a long time . But I finally pulled my digit out and got stuck in ,I think I'll be able to loose quite a bit of useless weight with a rethink of battery and ballast location to achieve CG with a lot less lead . Anyway here's where I'm at

Thought I'd post what I'm up to lately . For the past few years I've been working on restoring a PBY 5A Catalina which has eaten into my model building time .However I have wanted to build a new lighter wing for my Hudson so I started do that as well but its a slow progress ,anyway here's some photos of both . So far 1 wing panel for the Hudson fully sheeted with servo fitted is 700 grams ,on the other hand the Cat fuse tips the scale at 4 1/2 ton ...Continue Reading

Got onto build the Rotor finally getting the Catalina off my bench , I was happy to get a cleanish work space again , so here is the...Continue Reading

big wet weekend so got back to work on the Catalina

As everyone on the planet knows, its stay at home and stop the spread . And because I work on restoring a PBY Catalina which we have had to stop working on ,I was asked to restore the association model . I decided that it should be restored to a museum standard with a full metal jacket
for display with the full size when we complete it . I just wish it was as easy to work on the full size as it is the model . Photo's posted in no particular order of...Continue Reading

In 1987 I built this Avro Anson for the F4C world champs ,at the time I was really into the power competitions era. I thought at that time this was the top end of my building endeavours ,I since learnt it was simply the next step to build more scale models .

5.5kg AUW ready to fly , this was a rushed build but I'm pretty happy with the out come . Would have like to do more in the cockpit but time was short to have it ready to go for Manilla Slope fest 2019 so it is what it is

Just about finished now