{"id":1413,"date":"2015-02-22T17:17:02","date_gmt":"2015-02-22T22:17:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/volareproducts.com\/blog\/?p=1413"},"modified":"2015-02-22T17:17:02","modified_gmt":"2015-02-22T22:17:02","slug":"no-flying-in-february-but","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/volareproducts.com\/new2024\/no-flying-in-february-but\/","title":{"rendered":"No Flying in February, but…"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve been playing catch-up in February. \u00a0The month started off with me and my wife visiting her native Costa Rica. \u00a0I came back from tropical jungles and beaches to 2 feet of snow on the ground. \u00a0And to top it off, this week, we had a swing of over 50 degrees between Thursday and Saturday – and we were still below freezing. \u00a0Yes, it was nearly 30 on Saturday…and according to my truck, it was -25 on Thursday morning.<\/p>\n

Weather aside, I’ve been putting in extra effort trying to catch up on orders received while I was away. \u00a0I am pretty much caught up, excepting some items that I ran out of and am waiting on re-supply.<\/p>\n

On the building front, I had a stretch of the doldrums – I hadn’t built in January or February until this week. \u00a0I had to practically force myself into building, but now I I’ve got the ball rolling. \u00a0Here is a new Embryo I built this week. \u00a0I call it the Bad Axe – it is a lengthened Tomahawk. \u00a0Bad Axe is a play on the Tomahawk name and a send-up to Michigan (and the Tomahawk’s Michigan origins), as there is a town here called Bad Axe. \u00a0I don’t have a weight yet, since I can’t spray it in this cold and it still needs a nose button and prop.<\/p>\n

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I have kinda spoiled myself as I don’t like to build any model without using laser cut parts. \u00a0That’s all good, except I have to spend a lot of time drawing parts if I want to build a new model. \u00a0So, I’ve been spending many hours redrawing one of my favorite models. \u00a0Here are pieces that I cut today for a 19″ span Keith Rider R-2 Bumblebee for the Greve Race. \u00a0I redesigned the fuselage to have a more accurate cross section and it will be built out of all 1\/16″ sticks, so it should be fairly light, too. \u00a0That will be next on the building board – starting sometime this week.<\/p>\n

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