The Building Board

Friday, October 7, 2011

Tandy Walker's Christmas display

Sue's daughter Kathy and her husband David have this huge Christmas store in Arlington called Decorator's Warehouse. This year I took two if my radio control models down to their store and hung them up over the Christmas tree area. The picture below shows the Speed 400 electric powered 54 in. span Korda Wakefield RC model hanging from the store's ceiling.

Over on the opposite side of the Christmas tree area, we hung the 65 in. span FUBAR 600X Nostalgia RC model from the ceiling. It is gas powered with an Italian SuperTigre .35 engine.

David told me I had better come up with a price for each of these models because before the Christmas season is over there will be several people that will want to buy them.........................Tandy Walter

Wednesday, October 5, 2011

SIG Kadet

Hi Tom,

The Kadet flew nice. Had to adjust the throttle settings and the elevator slightly.

Will make a good trainer model for the Huriotts.

Thank your Uncle Paul for me.

Bucky

Sunday, October 2, 2011

Dave Platt Half Tone 2

Continuation of part 1

Tom,

Tomorrow is the day! Light green silk.

Dave Platt Half Tone 1

Tom,

I got involved in building a Dave Platt designed Half Tone 1/2A job from 1961 ( plans in Sticks and Tissue # 57 ). I'm ready to start
covering ( silk ) and I hope it will be done for next weekend. Powered by a mini Oliver Tiger .5 cc from Barton Model Products in
the UK. It has twin ball bearings and really screams. I'm using a 2.4gh. Spektrum RX with a modified servo decoder board driving a Bonner
SN escapement. Single channel naturally. I can't wait. Photos to follow.