Somthing lost in translation

I’ve been trying to buy a model of a certain airplane, well after asking around I got a telephone call from somebody trying to sell me the real thing. Not your everyday experience.

Well, a model is a model, even in 1:1 scale, but probably a little more than you want to lay out.

unopened?

I think the RC folks call that ARF…

Better wait for Aaron to review it…

You’re gonna need a bigger workspace to build it. And a huge airbrush spray booth…

“It’s so big…you’ll have to hang it on the ceiling!”

The past year, after having been an A&P and AI for 45+ years, I bought my first “real” airplane. It’s a 1941 J3F-65 Cub and was referred to as the “cub from Hell”. So far, I’ve replaced the entire brake system (the origional had been replaced with a home built system). Still need to move the mag switch back to it’s origional location (someone moved it to the front panel and it can’t be reached by the pilot in the rear seat - which is where you fly it from when you are solo). Still have to patch some holes in the cockpit floor, made when the home built brake system was installed and replace most of the fabric under the cockpit area removed to get to the brakes and misc other items. But it’s my flying machine (Well, mine and the wife’s) and I hope to have it flying by spring (In Light Sport Catagory of course!!). Biggest problem is the weather currently (It’s supposed to get to -17 here tonite and get 4+ inches of snow combined with an unheated hanger!)

Sounds like fun! But I’m not that brave- I don’t believe I would have bought that thing! (It’s as old as I am!) Good luck with the repairs!

The hardest thing is getting the parts off the sprues. I hear a sawzall works well.

Actually, I am giving serious consideration to leaving out milk and cookies so the little people will come in the nighttime hours and do that work for me!

Hi;

Your comments on your plane got me to thinking .Waaay Baack when I bought one of those things . All piled in a trailer and like a big kit , the wife and I got her to fly . Had fun with her too .Now I do remember how surprised the wife was when she realized it was covered in fabric . AAH , those were the days . T.B.