Ok, the list has been updated and I want start tonight also , but as Mitch stated Jan 1 is the start date. I can hold a blind eye thogh

NAME:      CALL SIGN:      MODEL FOR BUILD:
Mitch J.                            Globe Swift
Tom Akery            
Bob Rippy              Art Chester's Racer
RMFF                            Fokker F-II

@ RMFF: I lived in Colorado from 1991 to 2003 and my job took me all over the state even lived in Westminster, Monument Hill, Commerce City, Loveland, and Longmont. l just loved the state, the only other besides my Texas.

Bob

G'day all;

RMFF- It would be good to have you along for the ride mate-even just to show learners (ie. me!) a thing or two!(you too HD,-get involved,not just voluble!!) Seriously though guys,even if you dont build,your input will be muchly appreciated!

P.S. Not sure if this site has been mentioned before, but it has some  Earl Stahl plans (free) with builds notes & a bit of history. Its where i got the plans for the XP-54 from.

www.theplanpage.com/esp.htm

(P.S.S- a few pics of the D-VII would be cool-spiders & all!!)

Cheers guys!!

@ RMFF : I would love to learn where your club is if it is not too far for me to travel by the city bus to join in those mass launces. And did i here you correctly that you plan to join us for the Comet Dimer cookoff I would love to add you to the list. BTW I thought up the Comet title since there may be enough of us who may just remember those maybe next time another builders.

@ Mitch: would love to see your photos of the Vultee XP 54 build.

Bob

Speaking of Dime Scale, our FF club will be holding a Dime Scale Mass Launch event every month next year (2014). The models don't have to be Comet models as there are others that made dime scale planes...ie Megow, Burd, Mystic Models, ect. It ought to be fun I do have a Comet Dime scale model I built a few years ago, a Fokker D-VII. Still have it and still in pristine condition. Its been sitting a box collecting cobwebs...darn spiders . Anyway, I have plans for a Breda 15 dimer and a Fokker F-II dimer. I'm leaning towards the Fokker cause it has such personality Good Luck with your Comet Cook-Up

RMFF

G'day HD;

Your ok mate-you make me laugh! Sometimes i cant keep up (ie your discussion with Tom about aerodynamics-i think it made my head hurt!!) but it is good to see people (such as yourself) passionate about their hobbies. I recon your a bit of a character mate!(P.S i'm not even going to ask what "scratchcooking" is-it sounds like something i do when my wife is away  ha ha!!)

Cheers mate!!

G'day H.D;

James Beard....? Who....? Sorry mate never heard of him!!

mitch j wrote on Dec 7^th, 2013 at 3:54am:


   Wow. Do that, and some guy's gonna demand we grow our own balsa. It's like gunslingers out here - "Y'think y're a Scratchbuilder, Pard?...Y' build Scratch, huh? - Wull, I say AH'M more Scratch than YEWW, lookie here at mah hand-pressed Esaki..."

   It's pretty well accepted that the term applies to "not from a kit." Considering the bare-bones simplicity of the in-the-Day DIME kits, I would claim they're already like the gateway drug for scratchbuilders: basically the stock tossed into a box that you then scratchbuild from. Come to think, it could be argued that any printwood kit is in that genre, and that true kits begin with pop-out crushwood like Guillows and proceeds from there. Worth considering, if that scratchslinger ever kicks open your saloon door.
   As a former draughtsman myself (not the guy pouring beers behind the Scratch Saloon bar, it's my preferred term for guys who do scale model airplane plans: those planes were already designed, by guys like Kelly Johnson and Kurt Tank &c. &c. - we just draw an airframe around the image!), I'd opine that most of model drafting is in a different hobby entirely from building, making the "scratchbuilding" thing kinda less relevant.
   But it don't hurt to have an extra hobby. Let's begin -
   The main reason to draw your own plan is because you haven't got an existing airframe you want. (That's the whole point behind FAC "Pseudo-Dime" - they might have changed the official name, I dunno - where guys can do an in-the-style-of model of something that wasn't done in the Day.)
   So, first, decide what you want to see that's missing in the extant plans: More structure/less structure? Sketch in what you want over the drawing you got and heyPresto, you're a draughtsman. Want a bigger model? Blow it up and figure whether you need a stick or two more, extra ribs...you're a draughtsman.
   From that, it's a small step up to working off a three-view, a logical progression from sketching over somebody else's airframe.
   We could talk more about this stuff, if you like, but I think it should have its own thread. Back to cooking up Dimers, and watch out for that scratchcooking James Beard a-comin' for yeww...

   H'D