I am using simple Hobby King electric retract units and old Kraft/Haynes scale 3' wheels. To accomplish this with working oleo struts, a strut will have to be made up on the lathe and vertical miller. On the prototype, the struts are at a slight angle with the axle at a corresponding angle to put the wheel at 90d to the wing. While it offers scale like hinging of the flight surfaces, the retracts are an area that aren't even close. The SS kit is high quality as most know with a really nice scale outline. Like my other build, it will be doing some modifications to make it more prototypical. I hope to continue this thread all the way til the maiden and give it a total review.

I've searched on many sites and while I've found some on the SS Dauntless, most of those threads drop off before the maiden and never come back to life. I like to take those smaller kits and make them as close to the prototype while still maintaining fly-ability and my own sanity! LOL 50 size kits that are out there or were out there through the years. Anyone who's looked at my past threads they know my admiration of the smaller.