Thanks for the comments.
I am on a deep economy setting now and for the foreseeble future so all the gear will be what I have, or can make
This makes Andy's question simpler to answer
No new camera, too, for the same reasons!
Motor will be either a Hummingbird 15, a very soft flight motor from the dawn of time, a Speed600 Eco, or a bell motor (brushless); batteries will be initially a 6cell 2100mah buggy pack, possibly an 8-cell sanyo2000 flight pack or a load of Li-ions (2S:3P?) reclaimed out of computer batteries.
Invidentally I notice that at work our drills run on 35V, 1.3AH packs (hundreds of them!) on investigation they are Li-ion, obviously 10S, 1P, and each cell is clearly able to handle reasonable amps - If I could reconfigure one as 3S;2P I reckon i would be on a winner, except that they don't belong to me
Motor mount tonight, possibly followed by trials
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before painting I will fit the spray rails, exhausts rubbing strakes and probably the toe rails as well
Does anyone have a good way to make toe rails?
I am thinking of making two together, out of 1/16 styrene, by drilling holes for the rounded inner shape, cutting out a slot to join the holes - then slice into 2 parts for finished rails
andrew