Description: The kit for sale here is for constructing a Nick Ziroli-designed 101” wingspan, 1/8 Scale RC flying model of the North American Mitchell B-25 medium bomber. It contains a copy of Ziroli’s plans and his B-25 Instructions for building the model. The instructions provide 3 pages of dense text plus 3 pages of photos. Most importantly the kit contains all of the more than 150 cut-wood parts of light balsa, quarter-grain balsa, light ply, aircraft ply, and hardwood comprising the fuselage formers, nacelle bulkheads and formers, wing and tail ribs, shaped spars, tips and supports needed to build the model. These are all the critical wood parts that were copied onto the plan’s template sheet, to be cut out and used as patterns for making them.This kit was professionally prepared and hand-cut by Cornell Michaels Kit Cutters more than 20 years ago, during their prime as cutters of premium contest quality R/C kits. They cut the parts by hand using jig and band saws to accurately follow the part template drawings they had cut out and attached as patterns directly onto the wood stock, which was selected according to the type, thickness and grade specified in the plans and appropriate to the part function and location. The included plan set consists of three rolled sheets drawn full-size of the model. A separate template sheet (#4) was originally included in the plans set. It provided a separate copy of each specially shaped and marked wood part detailed in the design layouts of the other three plan drawings. These template copies were provided to serve as patterns for making the parts. The three sheets of the included plan set contain the complete design and are uncut and unmarked, as shown in the pictures, except for an obvious place at the bottom of sheet #1. A detail for the Temporary Former F1-A part was drawn there to the right of the main gear wheel. In preparing the parts kit, it was necessary to cut this detail out to use as the F1-A pattern because a copy of it was not included on the template sheet. As shown in the parts photos, the template drawings are all included in the kit as the patterns still attached to the cut wood parts.All the parts in the kit are clean, unused, unassembled and undamaged. Please note that the parts set includes six uncut patterns for approximately a dozen very small, thin balsa rib and tip parts. These parts were prepared for cutting, but due to risk of damage, were left uncut with a note to cut them out with a sharp blade when needed. They can be seen in the photos which show the right-side of the laid-out parts set, just above the end of the yard stick and between the stabilizer S-8 spar and S-9 spar joiners.Please carefully review the photos. These show all of the parts to be supplied in the kit for sale. Anything that is not shown in the pictures is not included in the sale and won’t be delivered.If you’d like more information about what’s involved in using this kit and building the model, there are build description threads for this popular model on-line in forums like RC Universe. It’s also possible to find some ‘free-for-evaluation’ pdf versions of the plans and instructions contained in the kit, for instance, by searching “100 B-25 mitchell free pdf download” and “belair ziroli B-25 build instructions 101 download.” This sale is limited to delivery to a residential address within the USA’s contiguous 48 states. Sales requiring delivery to other destinations won’t be accepted.Please ask any questions you may have about the item, payment or shipping before buying. Due to the scarcity of this item and its components, it’s being sold ‘As-Is’ and ‘Non-Returnable’.Please check out my site for similar and related items I’m putting up for sale. Thanks for your interest!
Price: 340 USD
Location: Centerville, Massachusetts
End Time: 2024-10-06T00:09:59.000Z
Shipping Cost: 30 USD
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All returns accepted: ReturnsNotAccepted
Brand: Unbranded
Type: Giant Scale
MPN: na
Scale: 1:8
Material: Wood
