Introducing the new plane

Well, on Friday I purchased the new plane. After quite a bit of reading and reviewing, and a discussion with the guys at Toyworld I went for the GWS Tigermoth 400.

I've just spent the weekend putting it together. The "Big Moth" is an Almost Ready to Fly (ARF) Kit with an estimated build time is 6 hours, I think I probably took 20 all up, but it is together, and I think it is reasonably straight.

During the building I found something most surprising happening to me..., I enjoyed the building. This isn't something I expected, as I thought all I really wanted to do was fly these things, but building it turned out to be a whole lot of fun.

Anyway, the plane is now assembled but I need a couple of things before I can call it done. I need a new radio crystal (the avionics is mostly kit that I recovered from a dead electrafun carcass (don't worry - the original electrafun is still there and raring to go) for either the moth or my handset. None of the batteries I have are the right shape for the moth, the propellor assembly is not correctly attached, and something needs to be done about the undercarriage. I also need a place I can try flying it, and will ask someone to look it over before we get to that stage as well.

I'll try and post some photos soon.