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Space Ritual said:
Our tank field is next to one of the biggest RC airfields in Canada (maybe the biggest). RC tanks are expensive but the worst you can basically do is barrel stab or roll one over which is generally not a big deal. The barrel stab can be expensive but nothing compared to the expense of some of the crashes I've seen the fliers have
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Went to Jets over Kentucky RC meet one year. Gentlemen had a F-86 Sabre. He went into a knife edge turn at a slow speed it stalled and went straight in. There wasn't anything usable left. The plane was probably closer to $10,000 than 5. Bad thing was it was a pilot error not a part failure. I did the same thing with a Carbon Cub. Mine only fell maybe 10 or 12 feet but it broke the nose off. It's easy to do but it sucks when you know it was all your fault.
 
sanford12 said:
Went to Jets over Kentucky RC meet one year. Gentlemen had a F-86 Sabre. He went into a knife edge turn at a slow speed it stalled and went straight in. There wasn't anything usable left. The plane was probably closer to $10,000 than 5. Bad thing was it was a pilot error not a part failure. I did the same thing with a Carbon Cub. Mine only fell maybe 10 or 12 feet but it broke the nose off. It's easy to do but it sucks when you know it was all your fault.
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My personal risk level is between $600 to $1K tops, I won't build anything that costs me more than that because then I'm too worried about smashing it up to have any kind of fun flying it. My most fun planes are to .40 to .60 sized (glow fuel or electric) that I can "fly it like I stole it", cause I bought em at the flying club's yearly auction for $100 or less ;)
 
init4fun said:
My personal risk level is between $600 to $1K tops, I won't build anything that costs me more than that because then I'm too worried about smashing it up to have any kind of fun flying it. My most fun planes are to .40 to .60 sized (glow fuel or electric) that I can "fly it like I stole it", cause I bought em at the flying club's yearly auction for $100 or less ;)
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Got lucky as Hobby Town had a fuselage for it in stock. With fuselage the prop and prop mounts it was about 75 bucks to repair it properly.

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RocketFoot said:
I'm getting closer to starting my first build in 40 years! I have been accumulating the necessary tools and equipment to do the hobby right! I bought a hobby tool kit, some cutting mats and a new Avanti airbrush compressor with dual action trigger! I am now working on paints that I will need to paint a couple 71 Mustang model kits that I purchased! I will be using my gun workbench as a hobby table for this adventure in modeling so I already have a nice area to work! This should be fun and it will give me something constructive to do over the winter months for sure! I'm starting to think that the hardest part of modeling is selecting the proper colors for hte project! What black to use for undercarriage? What silver to use for exhaust pipes? Will this yellow be close to my real 71 Mustang? Ahhh - choices, choices! LOL!

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I saw some paints made to replicate automotive colors in a car model magazine but can't recall the brand. Maybe some of the regulars will chime in?
 
That was my favorite size range for the same reasons until there was a flood of electric biplanes from the Great Plane Electrifly lineup and others too. I found them to be great flyers and could fit them all in my van at once.
 

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Well it got cold and dreary today so a good time to begin a new model. Sitting with a cup of oolong tea as I type. Gonna build a ground attack Mosquito. Going to slow roll this one. Also using a brush on more parts instead of an air brush. A lot easier clean up and on small parts you can't tell anyway.

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1/200 scale "Man in Space" rocket set with 1/200 Space Shuttle. The 1/200 scale SR-71 is a metal kit (there for scale). My friend 3D printed the Apollo astronaut.

This set nearly destroyed me. You're looking at almost a decade of on/off work. I used an after market decal set for the rockets. All of the photographic roll patterns were masked and painted by hand. The Space Shuttle SRB paint job nearly put me in a padded cell. The Shuttle came out OK but I over did it with the upper tile markings. It's not perfect but it is a cool looking display.

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