Think tha Quail's too good to play wit toyz?
THINK AGIN MOFOs!!!!!!!!!!!
Here's my Fokker DVII, built from a 23-inch wingspan Herr Engineering kit and converted to RC by none other than UCP's favorite gamebird, LandQuail.
Don't think for a second that it was easy, you N00BZ. Tha Quail's been at this shit for like a YEAR.
I really have been working at this since last winter. I'm decidedly giddy about the prospect of actually flying the thing. The local electric RC club has taken great interest, and I expect quite an audience at my Fokker's maiden flight. Oddly, I've gotten a lot of E-mails asking to see my model Before I try to fly it.
DON THEY KN0 THA QUAILs THA MOTHAFAKIN BOM AT FLYIN THA RC SHIT???
No, they don't. This will be the first time I've ever flown an RC airplane. Back in the day, when things were cool, I built scores of freeflight rubber-powered jobs, often with great success.
I'm confident on the building side of things. I built a Guillow's Fokker DR. 1 Triplane (Manfred von Richtoffen's, known to history as the Red Barron's, final mount) and a Guillow's Morse Scout as static display models for practice last year. Both these models took about four months to complete. The DR. 1 fell victim to a horrible apartment moving accident, which smashed it flatter than hammered shit, but the Morse Scout is still intact and ready to be hung from the ceiling somewhere.
As for the flying side of it, well, I'm pretty good at Microsoft Flight Simulator...
At any rate, my Fokker DVII will look damn good doing whatever it does after (or if) its tiny wheels break contact with mother Earth. The small skull and crossed Spandau machine guns on the fuselage are the model's master stroke. I looked everywhere for just the right skull to cut out and use as a stencil, and finally found it in the liner notes from my wife's Zack Wilde album.
The larger skulls on the wings come from an As I Lay Dying album I bought years ago hoping the band would be as good as the brilliant American southern writer William Faulkner's novel, As I Lay Dying. It wasn't. It wasn't even in the same ballpark, but when you need a three-inch skull you need a three-inch skull...
U TRY TO FIND 1 WEN Uz NEEDZ 1 U NOOBZ THEN CUM CRYIN BOUT STUPID LUKING WING SKULZ!!!!!!
1337!!!!!!!!!!!!
The Budweiser bottle is there only to give a reference of size. No, wait, building this model and drinking have gone hand-in-hand.
I'll have someone running the newspaper's HD video camera whenever I fly it, which will be the first calm weekend day of 2008 that I'm not epically hung over, probably.