Spending Spree

Well, I took the plunge and stepped up to a proper radio setup. Visited Nitrodude, after bothering Paul with near daily visits every day last week and purchased a JR x2610 radio package including - x2610 computer transmitter, JR Crystall-less 6 channel receiver, 4 Hitec Micro Servos (a swap from the actual Mini Servos that come with the pack), flight pack (for unpowered or nitro powered models) and charger.

The radio is 6 channel, has 10 model memory, tons of functions for planes (elevon, flaperon, delta V mixing, exponential, dual rates etc) and helicopters (don't know what most of these mean so will leave blank for the moment). In the end when with the x2610 rather than the lower speced JR Max 66 because of the helicopter options, and expanded memory.

Also picked up a new plane - GWS Zero - at $89 I think it could almost be called disposable, and I have the spare servos from the TM sitting around at the moment. Spent the weekend putting it together (not all of it, but quite a bit). Has gone together much better than my first GWS model. A very important part is that the model balances correctly without any extra weight. I used the GWS glue to put the fuselage halves together, and a few other things, and used foam safe CA for most other stuff (to keep the build time down). Is nice and light and strong. Although foam safe CA is a bit pricey, provided you don't use it for the major jobs (like joining fuselage halves together) you don't tend to use that much, it is nice and light and strong, and unlike the GWS glue sets in seconds rather than hours.

So, the zero is built, still not maidened. I'll post some photos of it a bit later (in fact, I might post some photos of all the planes.