Galaxy Acro

Hi all!
New member here, recently joind as i found this forum by mistake whilst looking for info or anyone's experiance on the galaxy models acro, Instead i found you guys on here & the bad news about galaxy I have been building the acro for about six months now (on & off) The owner of the shop was very polite the day i drove over to ipswich to purchase the kit, He opened
the large box & showed me all the bits & began to tell me a story of a friend of his who fitted a super tigre 2000 up front
& that the aircraft had some performance! So after about two weeks ebaying it up i managed to get hold of pucker ST2000
(yes its the 25cc italian one & has the radial mount) its a beast!
Anyway does anyone happened to have owned an acro? How does she fly being my main question
I have re modelled the vertical stab & rudder to resemble that of a private german built laser Z230 that i intend to recreate in 1/4 scale, the canopy too will be re modelled & maybe the cowl.
Most of these aircraft are solely created from the stephens akro & i find tweaking models like the full size pilots do very interesting. Picture attached is of the aircraft i am basing my model on.

hello sir.
never owned one i am afraid, but welcome anyway.

looks an interesting project, keep us informed of your progress.

Sorry, I also cant help you on that one Mike

But may I welcome you to our forum, not many rules, we believe in having fun on here and hope you will join us.

We have an intro thread, and if you have a few mins to spare, pop a post on there and the rest of the lads will know a bit about you modeling experiance etc

Garry

Just another thing Mike, when you post a picture please press " Insert" I have done your other one, and it looks a great model

Garry

Welcome to the forum, good to have another creative modeller on here, sorry i cant help you,

Hi and welcome
Sorry I am of no use either!!
That looks very nice be great to see some build pictures

Hi all & thank you all for the warm welcome!!! just letting you all know i am still here & that my 1/4 scale
stephens akro laser has been taking up most of my spare time along with christmas with 4 kids & my birthday.
I have many photo's of the build & it is coming along ok, there has been some minor problems with this build & all will be revealed, all i can say is the kit was very basic! dissapointing considering the price it now costs where the kit is being sold, the money i have spent on fitting & missing bits alone would amount to a ARTF but hey! that would not be aviation modeling now would it...

a lot of kits are like that, i always use kits a guide now and alter things as i go along.

but i look forward to seeing the pictures of this massive build.

Good Morning and welcome.No knowledge of the kit,sorry,but looks the business.i dealt with Gary at Galaxy a lot and would have loved to meet him and his staff .Enjoyed being a customer and even have the cap.Always found them helpful and havent really established a contact quite the same since they closed.Good luck with all your doing and hope its successful for you

G'Day from Down Under GC. I'm into scale but concentrate more on Warbirds. I'm pleased to see though that you choose to build rather than cheat with bloody ARFs - (yeah I know some people are time constrained) AND that you are one of the grownups on this Forum and use proper engines.

You will find as you read through the various posts that there is an on going war between myself - as the upholder of proper engines and that bloody Black Wizard AKA the Gasser. Don't be worried though - we don't have any real anamosity but we do have fun. Actually the Gasser is a bloody good bloke - although I'd never tell him that - and if he'd only grow up and give that electrickery stuff away he'd be much better adjusted - I'd even offer to guide him into the light.

I'm sorry but, like the other blokes, I can't offer much help with your build however if you have general questions there are quite a few really skilled scratch builders on here and there is no doubt we will try to help if we can.

Oh - I am also the second craziest bloke on this forum. There is no need to name that person who is number one!

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I have many photo's of the build & it is coming along ok, there has been some minor problems with this build & all will be revealed, all i can say is the kit was very basic! dissapointing considering the price it now costs where the kit is being sold, the money i have spent on fitting & missing bits alone would amount to a ARTF but hey! that would not be aviation modeling now would it...

looking foward to seeing the piccies I have no experience yet in building but I read a lot of threads of people who do and have learnt that if gut instinct tells you something doesn't fit right or feel right in a build then do it yourself, that way least you know it is going to be sturdy with attention to detail and fly safely, money wont matter when you get it flying knowing you put the work in yourself- well done!

Oh, and happy birthday for whenever it was

I'm back, had some problems with this one & very little time to get my head round, but i am back on the project, it may take more time but hey its cold its wet & i have just installed my custom made wood burner in the garage so no excuses plus i have a added project of the engine i intend to use, but think i better keep that quiet for now there is still little or nothing on this kit out there on the web so hopefully some pics will help anyone wishing to buy one, sadly a hard drive failure means i lost pictures of the wings construction the tail feathers too amongst other bits, but these things happen.
Also i wont be decorating the acro in the scheme i had previously planned, although it may seem a simple one i tried cutting my own lettering & markings & just could not get it to look rite.

The kit