Welcome Ralf, you will find that there are a excellent group of craftsmen on this site.  I always learn something each day.  I spent 4 year years in your beautiful country at Bittberg, your RC Modelers made me welcome to their flying fields.  Many wonderful hours flying.

 Fair Winds & Happy Flyin'

      Rich

Ralf,

 

 Hello and welcome  to the RCSB forum ..

       Happy to have new people in this hobby ! And a Builder too !!!!

Good Luck

I think you will find this site forum very informative, as I have.

I too have spent some time and lived in Germany, although many years ago (1988-1989) while working as a contractor on a USAF base (Spangdahlem AB). I loved every minute of my time spent in your country, but unfortunately have not been back since then.

I just recently started a scratch build of a 1:7 Spitfire Mk IX from Tony Nijhuis plans. I am having a good time with it. I started trying to be ever so precise with everything, but have come to the conclusion that this needs to be fun and does not need to have the tolerances of a real aircraft and mass production. So I have relaxed my expectations of perfection and plan that the model will be a "sport scale" version that ultimately ends up teaching me many different skill to build model airplanes. Of humorous example is planking. Read up on it here and have successfully made 2 beer kegs that fit under-wing on my Spit. Look up the Mk XXX and you see a few pictures of how important a part of life beer is. All this talk is making me want a Bitburger beer .

Jump in, learn some skill, have fun, make mistakes, fix them and you'll have a plane in-front of you before you even know it.

Thanks,