Hey Nicolas,

From the sounds of it your no stranger to fabrication and have quite the arsenal at your disposal.

I think you would be limiting yourself by building a Top-flite kit. If you don't like the wood, you end up replacing it anyways. I've never built one, however I find that with kits you end up resigning something that's already been designed and fabricated.

In my opinion for scale fidelity, ease of building, and designing plans the list is low to high.

Meister plans
Nick Ziroli Planes
Jerry Bates plans.

A friend is building a meister p47, and there have been some hurdles. Ribs need to be leveled, things need to be altered and overall they require a lot of tweaking. However I heard they fly fantastic and overall the structure is very strong.

I've gone through a lot of Nick Ziroli plans and have the Sbd and P38 flown and in the detailing stage. They are hand drawn plans too, so some fairing and shaping of ribs and formers is required. They are solid designing and all of his planes follow the same building format. There are tons of threads to reference as well.

I haven't built a Bates yet, but I have his P-51B plans and have followed many of his builds. His plans certainly are cad drawn and seem like they're meant to be laser or cnc cut. I would consider them to be the most accurate of the 3, and everyone who has flown them has nothing but good things to say.

Of course this is only my opinion, so please take it with a grain of salt. No matter what you choose run a build thread, and questions or concerns you have someone has already seen and solved it, your in good hands here.

Best of luck

Kyle

Hello Nicholas,

Welcome to rc scale builder site - non better anywhere.

I see you've already looked at Dave Anderson's La7 - good build and very comprehensive plans with loads of information.You could also take a look at his Arado 96b plan - builds into a very nice scale model with lots of detail to help you on the plan,as a warbird it's different and has a good story behind it.

Whatever you choose enjoy building it in this great hobby.

Pete

Hi Nicholas;

The LA7 is a straight forward, long moment design that will be relaxing to fly. If you bash Dave's design by
increasing its size you could end up with a rather unique project equal in size to Klaus Syancara's Yak-11.
"Czech Mate" Sunrise with his  covered Yak wakes up the entire valley.