Hello - new bar here - last did this in the mid 70's. Put together a few kits now to get back into the swing of things and noticed that the last 2 estes kits are way overweight once done. Built 2 small kits - hiflier and quark and those were a few grams over so no biggie there. but put together a patriot and a stormcaster (4.95 on clearance at michaels - got a couple) and both are about 30 grams over the weight listed on the kit? is this common? the patriot comes close to the max for the suggested engines - flew fine on b6-4's the other day Put together a red river kit at the same time as the patriot (diamond ring - neat tuber!) and that one is only 2 or so grams than the listed weight - it is similar in size to the patriot so not sure what is up with the estes kits - will be weighing more as i build some current kits to get an idea how glue and paint affects the weight
Thanks
Steve
Thanks
Steve