Keep RC plans affordable

Fluff. It makes no point about scalping. But you knew that.

The distinction is on *MODEL*, not airplane, for the comparison.

Are we cheap bastards or what? If you like it enough to build 10 copies from the set of plans, spend a little money. Or if it sucked enough to require 10 extra copies, maybe you should have stopped after the second.

It does, if you have a little imnagination.

Scalping is OK when its USA inc, that does it, almost OK when its Big Oil, OIr Halliburins, Or Boeing, or Arthur Andersen & friends.. but let some poor sod queue up for hours to make a profit?

No.

Or learn to draw your own,. Its hardly rocket science.

On Fri, 18 Jan 2008 11:59:06 -0600, "MikeWhy" wrote in :

Yes, I'm cheap.

I've built four or five Gremlins from the same set of templates that I derived from the first set of plans I bought.

I don't think Eric (Evl-1) Henderson would mind.

Marty

"Martin X. Moleski, SJ" wrote

You bought plans?

I guess that makes me cheaper than you. I made my own plans by approximating what was in RC Modeler, and improved on it until I was happy with it.

Oh, and I used .40's on mine. Goes like a bat out of hell!

On Fri, 18 Jan 2008 13:50:22 -0500, "Morgans" wrote in :

Yep. One for me, seven or eight to resell to others with cores and short kits. :-P

I've stuck with a .32 and a .36.

A few folks went with .40s or .46s. They didn't do a lot better in combat than I did, by and large.

Marty

Yep!

Fluff.

Get real. Since when is eBay's scalping subsidiary a poor sod?

OOOOOH! Can I use that one?

Well, there are probably better references available than the following but try this :

I used to have a good link on copyright law but can't find it atm, the following seems quite useful though :

Cheers,

Do any of you know if the person who purchased Bill Effinger's plans still sells them? Bill re-engineered/updated many of the old Berkeley plans and was selling them for some while before he made his final departure.

Yeah, you guys are right. This discussion has made me realize that the whole system has changed, and it's not likely to go back. Too many people just don't care about paying for other people's services when it's so convenient to steal them. Not complaining, that's just the way it is. I'll work up the plans for my three planes anyway, though. It's too good to keep for myself. The bomb dropper will handle three rolls of toilet paper, and it's a good flier, too.

That point has been mentioned several times in this conversation. I've designed a few of my own with great results, but I love well designed magazine plans. The thing I like about the RCM catalog is the enormity and variety of imagination that went into the different designs. Hundreds of designers built, tested and redesigned their own planes and then offered them to the public. And I'm pretty sure that the editors at RCM spent a lot of time making sure that the planes in their magazine flew well, at least the ones designed by their inner circle of cohorts. I get a lot of entertainment from building these planes and admiring how well they perform, and then moving right along to the next one. Of all the dozens of RCM designs I've built, only a few of them were less than great, and only one of them totally sucked. That was the Fat Porter. If you've ever considered it, forget it.

I've been amazed at how good some of the others were. The Super Kaos is excellent, the Miss Bikini is incredibly good. One of my favorites is the Big John biplane. There are just too many to mention. Any of you guys ever build the Guppy? What a cool plane. Maybe it sounds like I'm going overboard, but I truly appreciate what those other guys passed along to me. That's why I'm going to go ahead and publish my three good designs, whether they get pirated and spread around for free or not. I hope somebody else gets as big a kick out of them as I have.

Your little tiny plastic pilot seems to have some serious problems today. How does he find time to fly?

-- Ray

Bob:

This is what I hoped to find in this hobby ..... passion. There is no substitute!

Harlan

Probably. Post em upon one of the web forums. People will pass them around, and if they have yor forum ID on them, some may even e-mail you to say 'thank you'

Thats as good a feeling as you will get!

Robert Reynolds wrote: The bomb dropper will handle three rolls

New, or used? :-)