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$4000+$250 U-Haul $100 tip for his fuel and logistics. My fuel down and back $300.

True to a point. There are bubble levels that weight even less, but less easy to use. Remember, he's balancing an empty plane, and that tank is going to add 16-24 oz of fuel ahead of the CG. No one wants to land a tail heavy plane, dead stick, on an empty tank!

One would need to adjust the leading edge “backwards” towards the tail a bit to not need to use as much weight. But this is a kit that is pre cut & non adjustable. Unlike DIY foam planes we can mow things around to our liking more flexibility

Thanks! If you go electric like Robart make sure and replace the stiff receiver wire that they use with a standard futaba/jr male plug extension. Stiff 1 loses connection with vibration. Also make sure you. Strap down your control box wires with zip ties or something. Also a vibration killer and you wont have any retract issues like most people do with electric gear. Also I just used small robart hinges, 3 on each door. The servo hook up I made myself due to the angle of the servo I had to install it. This set up works great.

@@timg7017 ahh yea, maybe thats why Ive head bad things about the electrics...poor setup. I like air but I want more than 2 cycles per charge lol. I always wondered why on a 1/5 scale that TF didnt include inner doors. Im also bummed I cant find 5" diamond treads...but I suppose its cuz the builder community is slowly dying. The ARFs these day ARE amazing but I love the reward of a build.

@@timg7017 Do you have a template for these doors. Im trying to find a scale one for this 1/5 TF im also building. Trying to figure the best way to do it. How did you get the curvature on the inner gear doors. Im just about getting ready to make my cut outs, and add some structure to attach those inner doors to. THanks!

Go back 25/30% of the wing from the leading edge.

@@timg7017 cheers

It wasn't to bad. Just ran 4 micro servos. The hardest part was getting servo horns strong enough. And the ones I'm using still aren't the best but work.

Balanced on their cg but I had 3 life batteries inside the turtle deck to make that happen with the 55 on it. Prop was a xoar 22x10. Engine was just bolted right to the firewall without any modifications. Just like the p40 was meant to have a 55cc in it. I also installed robart 150e retracts that weighed more than the stock junk retracts that came with it. Hope this helps you out.

Tim G Does your have the retractable tailwheel? Seems that there are a few different versions of the plane. Newest one with Electric retracts included. Mine has the retract tailwheel and pneumatic retracts. 22x10 is what i ordered Thanks for the help.

@@maximumdeflection2113 no mine didn't have the retractable tailwheel but I did move my tailwheel location up to the scale spot on the plane. I didn't know they were offering that p40 now with a retractable tailwheel option now. Nice. Hope it's in the scale location though.

MaximumDeflection hey maximum I'm thinking of buying the plane, does the one on tower have the new electric gear with tail wheel retract

@@Rooksaho looks like at tower it's still being sold with the air retracts. Atleast that's what it still says.

On what.......that plane weighs 25+ pounds and you can't see under it to set it on something else to balance it. Plus, how are you going to distribute that weight so your point of balance rig doesn't poke a hole through the wing.

It's a warbird. Most need weight in the nose.

Most warbirds do not have long fuselage- the tail sit closer to the wing with a shorter moment arm

Not hard at all really. You will have to make the mounting blocks longer for the robart gear if you go with the robart 150e electric gear like I did. I made the blocks longer and cut them to fit snug then put triangle stock in to brase it and epoxy it all in. Wish I would have made a conversion video now.

thanks mate, I have to do something ,one leg gets stuck half way down, just don't like the Idea of spending more than I paid for the plane on retracts,

I stuffed a DLE 55 in it for power,I ran the rear mounted exhaust out the back of the cowl through the air hole provided in the fuse.she flys scale with a 55,I wouldn't use a 30cc engine in this plane,not enough power for it. For mounting the robart retracts I just added longer harwood blocks butcut them to fit around any formers in the wing braced them and glued them in. Il have to figure out how to add pics for you,this was my first time posting on utube. Or you can find me on facebook.