Spitfire construction, part 1

I started building the spitfire kit this week. I acquired a plaster plate from the local hardware store, which made for a lot more stable building surface than my old scavenged cork board.

I am concerned about the reliability of the linear servos I got from ebay, but otherwise the build is going OK.

I printed a pair of servo holders, since there's an IC on the underbelly of the servos, making direct attachment to the balsa impossible.

Time to build!

After quite a long while of thinking about eventually doing a Guillows free flight-to-electric conversion, I finally got pretty much everything I need to do the build. I'm still missing some connectors, but they should arrive soon. Regardless, I now have the essentials to actually start the assembly!

Sweet tiny parts of joy!