We’ve been running a kit scale duration event at most OMFC competitions for a year or two, and we’ve tried to make the model eligibility as broad as possible so that the maximum number of people can enter.

Unfortunately, this flexibility has come at the cost of complexity so the rules haven’t worked particularly well, and have been difficult to understand for non-scale flyers and CDs. The 2026 Classic Winter Kit Scale Postal is a return to a very simple format just fly your eligible model and record your 3 competition flights. There is a 10 sec ROG bonus available if flying Indoors. All the flights should be made on the same day over the Winter/early Spring period between 1st January 2026 and 30th April 2026.

We’ll also run a single outdoor event for models built to these rules at the Spring Duration comp on so if you build a model over Christmas you’ll get a lot of use out of it.

There are no complicated bonuses to apply just record 3 flight times , the name of the model and kit along with a photo of the model if possible and send them to Chris at webmaster@oxfordmfc.bmfa.uk 

1st prize is a VMC Fokker DVIII donated by the Vintage Model Company

 

Full Rules PDF can be downloaded here

Rules Outline

Models must be built from kits or from plans originally supplied in kits, and there are a limited number of kits that are eligible – essentially, the Keil Kraft Flying Scale series, the Veron Tru-Flite series, the newer VMC Flying Scale series and a few others. You can, however, do more-or-less what you want to the design as long as it’s in character with the original.

Flying will be a total of three flights (TOTF)  and may be flown indoors or outdoors. Unlimited attempts are allowed, an attempt is any flight under 10s

Chris will then calculate the bonuses and will put the latest scores up on the website. Prizes (Tunnock’s comestibles of various types) will be handed out in early May.

Since we’re flying over the winter period, we’ve taken the unusual step of allowing competition flights to be made indoors; this means that our friends and OMFC members who fly at Trinity and Berinsfield can also take part, and we’re hoping that this might engender a little friendly rivalry. However, if and when the weather improves in the Spring there’s nothing to stop people re-trimming an indoor model at their local recreation ground and recording some outdoor times as well – you never know, you might get lucky with a thermal…

 

2025 results

Name	1	2	3	5	6	7	Location	Date
Chris Brainwood KK Piper SC	Max 10	Max 20	Max 30	35			Port Meadow	20/3
Andy Blackburn KK Stinson	Max	Max	18				Pinkney’s Green	17/4
Andy Blackburn KK Stinson	max	18					Trinity	19/4

Name	Model	Bonus	Timer	Score
Chris Brainwood	KK Piper S Cruiser	25	Self	120
Andy Blackburn	KK Stinson	20	S.Edwards D.Lovegrove	63
Andy Blackburn	KK Stinson	20	P Smart C.Brainwood	48