Building a RC P-38 twin engine Lightning

Hey all posted a couple pictures of a RC build i started few weeks back in another thread figured with the response i got there maybe some other Rc'rs might chime in haha
Now i have built a few Rc 's in my time but nothing in this league or scale and size its going to be a slow as its pretty complicated going by blue prints anyways here is my progress presently on outer part on left wing haha might of got my self in over my head on this build lol
As well as rudder and other parts

Enjoy

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That's fricking awesome. I'd be building little towns to bomb lol.

I know how to read blueprints and that looks fairly complicated. So many potential hobbies yet so little time and finances.

Jesus quite the build. I like foamies myself and have had a twisted hobbies turbo beaver in the closet for months waiting to build. I like plug-n-crash myself and have a eflite carbon yak I need to rebuild.

Its fun if it flys lol i probably let a pro fly this once or twice then i am hanging it up in rec room then onto next build or next thing on my bucket list just got to have one

I use to have a good buddy that spend all his money and time building these.. Everytime he went to fly them he would crash them. It was like watching a drug addict.. They should put explosives in them so they crash you get your money's worth..

Its a expensive hobby that is for sure but its really enjoying watching something You built from scratch actaully fly even if its only for a minute lol

Wad up peeps Well progress report still on same left wing haha so no real progress over a week later , but learnt something just by having one main spar 1/8th inch bigger , then it should be..
Throws everything out of wack
PS only took me 8 days to figure that out haha
And for anyone interested main spar is the long Balsa rod in middle of wing believe it or not the most important part of the wing for being truly in par with angles so today cut it down 1/8th of a inch

Shit man, I thought I was the only geek stoner here. I love all RC stuff. My older brother has bunches of planes and a couple of helicopters. He's really into it.

Just a small tip: If it's your first plane and you've never made a landing yet, don't put too much effort in the details. You'll be likely to crash it the first time. My brother's first "flight" lasted about 4 secs: because he inverted the elevator control.

Here's my Team Associated RC8E, unfortunately collecting dust and spider webs. The closest track I can find is like 150km away. Not a very popular hobby where I live.

Nah this thing is going to be tricked out like a high class Hooker