Nice one Paul, a very nice looking model .

Been in touch with the guy at Keleos Creations in the States, hope to have this in 3-4weeks time.

The P-40 is just about finished, just the exhaust , final radio intall and bits and bobs such as the decals.

So a few pics

Hope to maiden the 109 this week if the weather holds.

This is a very obvious comment, especially in hind sight and thought I'd mention it here to hopefully allow anyone else following this route to a scalish plane to avoid disaster.

Both Kelvin and myself have chosen to use non standard exhausts. My engine was brand new and I fitted the exhaust and mounted it all into my workmate to setup and do the initial running in. By the time it went into the plane it ran beautifully. However after the first few flights with a rich ish mixture, the engine bedded in further and chose to stop several times in mid air at low throttle settings. Fortunately I managed to dead stick it in without any damage apart from a few more grey hairs!

I need to lean out the bottom end mixture and or fit  a hotter plug or even on-board glow. So as I've said, its very obvious now but could have wrecked the plane. I expected the mixture settings to be different from standard because of the different gas flow of the exhaust, but didn't expect the top and bottom end settings to separate from each other to such an extent as the engine ran in.

Hi Paul,

The guy at my local shop was right then when he said lots of problems with scale/in cowl systems.

I am still waiting for the keleo system and Timbo has offered to make up one of his home made onboard-glow units for me.

I may just use the standard exhaust supplied with the engine after all it is only a sport -scale model,just a shame to cut the cowl up.

Kelvin,

I wouldn't say lots of problems, just a few things that need sorting. I've just got in from ground running the mustang and having leaned out the bottom end by about one and a half turns, it runs fine, will idle for over two minutes and picks straight up when the throttle is opened. Very little oil fowling of the plug now, so when connecting the glow at idle there is only a small increase in revs. So looks like an onboard glow isn't needed at the mo and neither is a hotter plug.

The neat look of the plane without a standard exhaust has got to be worth a bit of fiddling!