Guss's Tiger Moth

Guss, a member of the club, loves to build his planes from scratch. Which takes a lot of patience, dedication, motivation and love. Love, because he loves the hobby and his planes.

There are a few members there who build their planes from scratch, it takes months and may be a year or two. I would love Al to start a plane from scratch, but at the moment he doesn't have the patience for that. Hmmm.......

Anyway, I thought I'd show you the latest plane Guss has been building from scratch. It's a Tiger Moth and she's a quarter scale plane. It's not finished yet and as you can see she's BEAUTIFUL!
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