Beginning of the end.

I've been in the market for a pilot figure for the Chief. Today I got some new propellers from Brodak and was checking the balance on one of them when I spotted a pilot figure on the shelf from the crashed Strega. After some sanding and balsa cutting I had it fitting under the canopy I painted the under canopy area and glued in the pilot figure. I have a color scheme penciled on the plane and the paint ready to spray. The original was all red so this one will be red with black and white trim.
  Many years ago at a contest at Quonset Point RI I bought a propeller from a vendor and tried it on my plane. There was a visible improvement in the planes performance. I used that prop for a long time. I couldn't find any other of that brand anywhere. I've read of the same brand prop being spoken of highly on the forums and still none to be had. A copy was being made but that too was hard to come by. A week ago there was a post that the original brand was available in sizes that are usable for control line planes. I ordered 6 props from Brodak last week and they came in  today. I want to try them very soon but we are going out for breakfast in the morning and wont be home until noon. Maybe the weather will cooperate.
  I also changed the pixels on my camera and this is the first picture using it. I'm led to believe that after reducing the picture so it will fit on the forums that it will enlarge more. We will see. This isn't reduced so it will blow up a lot.