VOTE NOW! MARCH MAYHEM CUSTOM MOTION RC AIRCRAFT CHALLENGE!

[SeeMeDo]

Talk about hard to pick on each vote. All the planes really look great, fantastic work of love in all of them, thank you,
Jeff in LA USA...

[SeeMeDo]

Thank you James and Alpha Friday's live stream was great. Jeff in LA USA

[James]

WOW, I'm flabbergasted that my Corsair made it to the final round, didn't expect any of my submissions to get there. Everybody has there own likes and dislikes, so hats off to the judges for even trying. If they would have taken all submissions and thrown them in the air and picked the first 64 that landed, it would have made as much sense, every one of them is just as outstanding as the next. Since I'm from Florida, the home of voter fraud, most may think I somehow bribed someone to even get this far. To make matters worse, I was born outside of Chicago when Mayor Daley was counting dead peoples votes. Hey, can I get some dead votes, or is it a rule you have to at least be on life support?

Personally, I had a hard time choosing between a few of your submissions, was happy when a few others of us had the corsair in there too. Just something fun about that livery!

[James]

Thank you James and Alpha Friday's live stream was great. Jeff in LA USA

Thanks for checking it out Jeff! Definitely a fun competition to see all these gorgeous aircraft in one spot.

[Griffon Wings]

Absolutely addictive to this hobby and to Motion ... I didn’t make it ( not surprised at all did you see what out there !! ) but i’m more motivated then ever to do another paint job ... more mistakes more we learn but in the end it’s always fun ( for me,for my wife litte less )

Wonder if I should submit this other jet, which i’m having so many fly on it and i love it on first sight and i was right ) ! Good luck to all the finalist.
Thank you for supporting and inspiring a rookie/ish ,not shame on that !

[Elbee]

Griffon Wings Diggin' the "Splinter" livery. Rookie?, hmmm, 'eye of the beholder', more like. Bravo Zulu, Sir. Best, LB

[Outatrim]

F-15 in IAF scheme featuring original graphics. This erplaces previous post (#231) that did not show photo.
Thanks,
, outatrim

[slamdance64]

Griffon Wings, That F-18 splinter scheme was amazing! Bravo Zulu to you. That must have been some crazy masking.

[Hugh Wiedman]

Just worked out my bracket and voted. WOW, Motion did an incredible job in setting up the voting link, very easy to complete and actually more fun than filling out the March Madness basketball brackets, especially since that's essentially been cancelled. Unfortunately from just the pictures, unless you are familiar with all of each entrants modifications you may miss some of the smaller or hidden really cool modifications. Maybe next year there could be a list of modifications on each entrée in the lower left corner of the picture.

Now trying to figure out how to start lobbying for votes. Maybe if I spend 500 million of my own money on the election, it might help, but considering the opponents, I'd probably just end up like the other guy who spent all that money to find out nobody really likes him.

[Griffon Wings]

Slamdance64 ... yes lots of tape and few bad words here and there .... in 5 languages! But in the air look incredible. I really love this plane . Thank you for like the post, being new i’m try to walk on my tip toes , so many great pilot in the Olympus and i’m just admiring everyone. What a great hobby guy’s .
See if you like this bae hawk , this one zero tape at all . Airbrushed first, green hand brushed and oh yes,Callie !
happy weekend to everyone

[Hugh Wiedman]

Slamdance64 ... yes lots of tape and few bad words here and there .... in 5 languages! But in the air look incredible. I really love this plane . Thank you for like the post, being new i’m try to walk on my tip toes , so many great pilot in the Olympus and i’m just admiring everyone. What a great hobby guy’s .
See if you like this bae hawk , this one zero tape at all . Airbrushed first, green hand brushed and oh yes,Callie !
happy weekend to everyone

Your RIO officer looks pretty excited back there, did he just win the Motion RC Aircraft Challenge, or did the pilot have too many beans last night?

[Elbee]

Hugh, it's a helmet critter and usually experienced when you need both hands and feet to do something more important. LB

[Griffon Wings]

Hugh ... that was my best co-pilot, named Fabio, but his long hairs was bugging him all the time . And yes,i belive did party the night before the take off. After all was my very first attempt of paint job and i was pleased.
Again, me fire me man , need to learn from all of you guy’s .
Hey,here my pilots on the Alitalia al-37 with Gucci Interiors,you might like those more

[Griffon Wings]

Here in full.

[Hugh Wiedman]

Hugh ... that was my best co-pilot, named Fabio, but his long hairs was bugging him all the time . And yes,i belive did party the night before the take off. After all was my very first attempt of paint job and i was pleased.
Again, me fire me man , need to learn from all of you guy’s .
Hey,here my pilots on the Alitalia al-37 with Gucci Interiors,you might like those more

The Italian Pilot looks like he might have the Corona Virus, is the plane in quarantine? All joking aside, you don't need apologize for anything, I loved your pilot and RIO in the hawk (pilots with no arms or hands really fry me) and the pilot and cabin with lighting in the AL-37 is outstanding. You don't need to learn nottin from nobody, you should be teaching instead.

[fhhuber]

Somehow today was the first I heard of the contest.

That was a lot of voting...

[Hugh Wiedman]

Absolutely addictive to this hobby and to Motion ... I didn’t make it ( not surprised at all did you see what out there !! ) but i’m more motivated then ever to do another paint job ... more mistakes more we learn but in the end it’s always fun ( for me,for my wife litte less )

Wonder if I should submit this other jet, which i’m having so many fly on it and i love it on first sight and i was right ) ! Good luck to all the finalist.
Thank you for supporting and inspiring a rookie/ish ,not shame on that !

Just out of curiosity, how did you manage to repaint you F-18 with such perfect lines on the ambush livery. I know Callie has a graphics set, but it does not include any of the black or white markings. Just an absolutely masterful job.

[Alpha]

Hugh Wiedman I'm not sure what Griffon Wings used to mask off his excellent Splinter camo F-18, but on mine, I used Post-It notes. First, I primered the entire model then pre-shaded it, then masked for the black color, then the gray, then the white last. This allowed me to back into the desired opacity for tonal gradation between the final colors. It doesn't show up in photos, though. Give Splinter Camo a shot, you'll like it! (Or maybe hate it)





I used the opposite color sequence for my NSAWC F-14, starting with the lighter colors then moving into the lighter blue then deeper blue

[Griffon Wings]

Hugh and Alpha !!! What a honer Sir !

I simply used tape, yellow frog tape and took not much time at all ( pinocchio 🤥 . Highly suggesting to get one and do it Hugh, will turn many heads at the field.
and now you can see a true master piece directly from the Holy Alpha.
i did add RC Geek afterburners too and in the air look pretty mean .
Start with the black then white .
I’m truly thankful to Freewing giving us opportunities to paint our jets and have extra fun .
We are very lucky pilots

[Hugh Wiedman]

Doubt I have the skill or patience to get that done, but definitely want to acknowledge those who do. I absolutely love that scheme, the black/white and the light and deep blue. You both have just the right amount of white and black to pull it off, not surprised that these are real head turners at the field. You both have my complete adoration.

It might help the motivation to try it if some generous soul out there with connections to FW would "donate" an airframe to hone my skills on; anyone out there know such a saint?

[rc_heli_flier]

I don't think I got credit for picking the winner of the contest!! I checked my bracket and I clearly have the AWACS picked but they have an X through it!! I was only #9 on the list and still wouldn't have won but... lol

Actually I went back and totaled up my points and I did get credit for it, wouldn't have made any difference. lol
Hey, it's Saturday and I'm stuck in my house, I have nothing better to do!!!

It was a hard contest to judge anyway, lots of great planes and talented guys doing them.