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Welcome to my scale airplane build blog!

Thanks for visiting my scale airplane build blog! I've done a number of other build blogs for RC sailboats and a Pygmy Kayak. Now I'm hoping to do both a 1/6 scale Sopwith Camel on this blog and a 1/8 scale RC hydroplane replica of the 1957 Miss Wahoo on my scale hydroplane blog . Not sure yet which one I'll try first though, so stay tuned! So far I have two kits from Proctor Enterprises : 1. The VK 1/8 scale Sopwith Camel but built by Proctor now. They apparently have the rights to the VK catalog and are reproducing the old VK kits. 2. A vintage VK 1/8 Nieuport 17 . The Sopwith Camel kit is brand new by Proctor, but apparently is based off of the original VK kit from the 1950's and 60's. The VK Nieuport is from 60's as far as I can tell. I bought it off of eBay from some guy who had it in his garage or storeroom for decades. It seems complete. I'll probably do the Sopwith Camel first, but as a static scale model instead of a flying radio cont