gtae07

The RV looks like this right now; Dad and I built an RV-6 a while back but no pictures right now...

Hi everyone, I'm joining up because I'm about to get started on a new build for my brother-in-law, but it's been probably 20 years or so since I last built a model (and they were fairly sorry jobs of it, what with all the detail and attention that most 12 year olds have) and most of my recent experience is on a full-scale aircraft (an RV-7). I'm going to be trying to mod the Trumpeter 1/72 CH-47D into an F model and paint it in BIL's unit colors for his birthday. So if y'all have any advice for me I will be very grateful :)

Honestly, I'm expecting homebuilts to eventually be the future of GA. And I expect the FAA to eventually liberalize the rules on homebuilts, such that airframes can be supplied at a higher state of assembly than now. I say this because liability and certification costs have pretty much paralyzed the market for new "average joe" airplanes; going homebuilt mostly eliminates these concerns. I also think that GA is correcting to a more realistic state... the conditions in the 60s and 70s were propped up by other market factors and a greater supply of pilots; that "bubble" has popped