Dumas Kits

Thanks Super Dave,

I put one on my wife's wish list. Hopefully she will come across it before christmas...... Of course I've dropped a few hints!

Put one of there Little swamp buggy's together years ago. Did a refinish on it awhile back. Nice kits, quality wood, good instructions. A pic of the now brushless buggy in the gallery.

Is this the same Dumas that has been around forever?
If so back in the mid ‘70s I built several of their swamp buggies and don’t recall any probs. But their Mod Pod had some very ‘loose tolerance’ dye crunching. The wing ribs had a grossly oversize rectangular cutout for the spar. On assembly you had several (actually eight) choices as to where to glue the spar to the rib. Pick a corner or the middle of the top, bottom, right or left sides. Whatever, it was plenty strong, never had a wing failure with two different planes. But it wasn't a construction that you wanted to show off with transparent covering .
Bear in mind that was a long time ago, and I can’t speak to the quality of the current kits.
Al

Good grief Al
I can't remember what I had for lunch yesterday
Never mind specific building probs from the 70's.
Well done that man
J

John Goddard wrote:Good grief Al
I can't remember what I had for lunch yesterday
Never mind specific building probs from the 70's.
Well done that man
J

LOL!

Yes, congradulations!

Dumas has been around a long time. I live close by as they are in Tucson,Az. I went to a farmers market and across the street was Dumas. Never knew they were from here. I built a Hot Shot tunnel hull boat years ago and it went together nicely. All the planking fit just right and made for nice speed boat. Mostly now besides boats they have smaller rubber powered planes , lazer cut.
Dan

Well,

I just paid for one today, after my spit is done I will build it. Good things mentioned here about it. I will post the build log when I get it going.