Heart Beat Models

[Ty Marcucci]

 

[Bill Little]

This is for Bill Little mostly. Bill you mentioned Arron have a "Shameless".  That was put out by Heart Beat models back when. Do you know if the plans for it and the others they kitted are available?

Hi Ty,

I have the plans, and you *could* build from them.  Todd Lee built one for a review in FM and when he moved from Port Orange, he gave it to Aaron to practice with.  It's long gone, but the plans we got from someone on SSW, and here, too, I think.

The wing will be a chore to decipher from the plans.  It was pretty unique, but a GREAT flying model!

I have NO CLUE as to the rest of the line.  Dave Trible (Heart Beat Models) had some troubles of some sort, and I have heard nothing else about it.  Some nice planes, though.

[Bill Little]

He did the first kit of the Impact. I saw one several years ago up in Seattle.  Wife, etc, the usual probs. The kits seemed, for the time, very well done. Wasn't his first big one called the "Music" or something along that line?

Music (basically a built up Shameless, a little bigger I think), Sukhoi Profile, Shameless, Impact,................??

[Jim Pollock]

Didn't he also have a kit of Stan Powell's Dove?

Jim Pollock   

[Bill Little]

Didn't he also have a kit of Stan Powell's Dove?

Jim Pollock   

Hi Jim,

I don't know..... don't remember the Dove, though.  From what I DO remember, his kits were supposed to be quite good.  The Shameless we had was very good.  I never heard the *whole* story around the collapse of Heart Beat Models.

Bill <><

[wmiii]

 The kits seemed, for the time, seemed very well done.

  I have an Impact kit, for any time it is veeery well done, some of the best wood I have ever seen.

 Walter

[James Lee]

Bill
Dave's kits were VERY labor intensive.  I saw Dave's 'production' area back in the day...   A small bedroom in a small apartment...   He put a lot of work into the kits, trying to make them the best available.  He had some very unique production solutions....  It was definately a frayed shoestring operation on the financial end and the shoestring let go.  Actually, he had a very bad auto accident that almost killed him and that was pretty much the end of the business.  I have no idea if any of the plans still exist.
I still see him at our contests on a semi regular basis.  He is still trying to do some flying but time and making a living really intrudes, as it always does.... 
Jim

[Bill Little]

Bill
Dave's kits were VERY labor intensive.  I saw Dave's 'production' area back in the day...   A small bedroom in a small apartment...   He put a lot of work into the kits, trying to make them the best available.  He had some very unique production solutions....  It was definately a frayed shoestring operation on the financial end and the shoestring let go.  Actually, he had a very bad auto accident that almost killed him and that was pretty much the end of the business.  I have no idea if any of the plans still exist.
I still see him at our contests on a semi regular basis.  He is still trying to do some flying but time and making a living really intrudes, as it always does.... 
Jim

Thanks for the information, Jim.  I had heard of an "illness", I gues that was the auto accident! 

From what I saw, the kits were very good.

Bill <><