| Hello again Tim,yes I started really young with rubber models at the tender age of 5,things progressed as my father built rubber scale models all the time,as I watched him cut out wing ribs and carve beautiful propellers so I used to copy him,my pocket money was spent on those balsa packs and everything was used,usually I had kits for birthdays and Christmas presents,some that come to mind are the Skyleader Hawker Tempest,Keil Kraft Fairey Gannet,Spitfire,Hurricane etc with assistance from dad they were made to fly reasonably well,as you know the secret is in the trimming,getting the thrust line adjusted is paramount with free flight models of any type whether scale or semi-scale,the art of rigging such models is only learned by experience you can give a guide but that tiny piece of nose packing to stop a power stall is learned the hard way by practise !
I think that we have a good cross section of modelling subjects here for everyone from the smallest rubber job to quarter scale monsters,feel free to add anything whether a question or your own contribution,I will get back with some links to my own models so that you can see the type of thing that I build myself,we all need inspiration and these is quite a bit out there relating to this type of modelling,some magnificent work in fact.
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