Folks
i've read some nice stories in this forum about how CL is important for many people and i've decided to add one of mine.
Don't know if should've posted in other board, but as the issue is the Rogue, it seemed right to do so here.
I've been building models since i was 6, but CL only when dad bought one model in '84, i was 12.
I got totally hooked and then i got a model magazine, my very first model magazine, can you guys remember what it felt like when you got started?
So, in this magazine there was a plan for a stunter, the Rogue, and it seemed the most incredible model i'd ever seen!!
Swept flaps, how is it possible? Foam wing, how? I could tell you many other "things" that crossed my mind, that made that model such a challenge.
As i was studying English, i wrote a letter to Flying Models asking how i could get a copy of the full size plans, and amazingly, they answered (gee, now all it takes is a couple clicks...).
But the best happened a couple of weeks later, 'cause without me sending any cash, FM sent me a full size plan for the model... I was in shock!
I had done it! I still wonder if that was an accident or if someone at FM just had a heart...
Anyway, many things have happened that kept me from building it, until last sunday night, when i was just reading some posts at the verdor's corner and found out that Mr. Bob Hunt has the foam wing for it...
Then,let's just say that very soon i'll have to start a new building thread, 'cause the wings and tail feathers have already been ordered.
The Rogue is that one model that i absolutely have to build, to finally accomplish what i started 28 years ago.
I was sad, very sad to learn that Mr. Simons is not doing very well lately, i loved to read his columns at FM...
Then, as a way to pay tribute to him, i'd like to ask you guys a favor: if anyone has a picture of Mr. Simons Rogue, preferably color, and wouldn't mind sending it to me, i'd like to paint my Rogue just like his, if that's ok with you guys.
There used to be a picture in that Fm plans directory, but it was BW...
I guess that's it.
Thanks
Marcus
Oh, i did send the cash later...