Veron Harvard - 21" Replica Balsa Kit

£34.99

(3 Reviews)

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Product Details

This kit is undergoing a review of its laser-cut parts and should be available again soon

This North American Aviation Harvard model aircraft kit is made to order in the UK using top quality materials and precision laser-cutting. Part of the Veron Tru-Flite range that featured realistic appearance and excellent flying qualities together with simple construction. An ideal introduction to the world of rubber powered balsa wood kits. FULL KIT CONTAINS Plotted plans Precision laser-cut parts Stripwood balsa Wheels Wire Quality tissue covering Propeller Prop shaft Rubber motor Motor peg See this Harvard model in flight at the 2014 BMFA Indoor Scale Nationals Kit Scale competition: Model built and flown by Andrew Darby

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CHRISTMAS 2024 DELIVERY INFORMATION

The workshop will be closed from 12pm Friday 20th December 2024 until 9am Monday 6th January 2025.

Any orders placed while the workshop is closed will be despatched in the week starting Monday 6th January 2025.

We will monitor emails during the period we are closed, but replies may take longer than usual.

Thank you for your custom over the past year - we look forward to serving you again next year.

Wishing you a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

The VMC Team

UK SHIPPING

Most orders are shipped via Royal Mail’s Tracked 48 service.

We are in a very rural location and so our Royal Mail collection is at around 1pm.

Example:

An order placed before 12pm on Monday should be with you on Wednesday.

An order placed after 12pm on Monday should be with you on Thursday.

For larger or heavier orders, we use APC to deliver your package on a Next Working Day service.

Example:

An order placed before 10am on Monday should be with you on Tuesday.

An order placed after 10am on Monday should be with you on Wednesday.

Shipping is free to UK Mainland addresses for orders over £30.00, otherwise we charge £6.00 for Royal Mail Tracked 48 parcels and £12.00 for APC Next Working Day.

NORTHERN IRELAND

Unfortunately, for the purposes of the new EU GPSR regulations introduced on 13th December 2024, Northern Ireland falls under EU jurisdiction.

Until we have worked out how to comply with the new rules, we will not send items to Northern Ireland.

We are really sorry about this and hope to have a solution in place sometime in 2025.

SCOTTISH HIGHLANDS & UK ISLANDS

Royal Mail considers the Scottish Highlands and UK Islands as part of the UK and so does not charge a premium for deliveries.

Pretty much all other UK couriers have surcharges for deliveries to the following postcodes: IV, HS, KA27-28, KW, PA20-49, PA60-78, PH17-26, PH30-44, PH49-50, ZE, IM, TR21-25

If you live in one of these postcodes and the parcel size of your order is outside Royal Mail's dimensions, you will have to pay a surcharge.

Our system is not clever enough to work this out and so if your order attracts a surcharge, we will contact you before despatch to see if you would like to pay the surcharge and proceed with the order or cancel and receive a full refund.

INTERNATIONAL SHIPPING

EU COUNTRIES

On 13th December 2024, the EU introduced new regulations with respect to product safety called GPSR.

There was very little publicity or notice given to small UK businesses about the new regulations, but needless to say, to comply will be time-consuming, onerous and probably expensive.

Unfortunately, until we have worked out how to comply with the new rules, we will not send items to EU countries.

We are really sorry about this and hope to have a solution in place sometime in 2025.

Smaller items

Items that fit within Royal Mail International Tracked Medium Parcel parameters (59cm x 17cm x 15cm weighing less than 2kg) can be sent to most countries outside the UK.

For example up to 3 of our smaller 18” wingspan kits can fit into one of these parcels.

A parcel like this currently costs around £18 to send to the USA and will take up to 3 weeks to arrive. This is because Royal Mail hands over the parcel to the local Post Office service for your country who have to clear it through customs and then deliver it to you.

The Royal Mail tracking code also transfers over to the tracking for your country’s postal service.

Larger items

For items that do not fit within Royal Mail International Tracked Medium Parcel parameters, we use standard international couriers such as DHL, FedEx and UPS.

These companies use something called volumetric weights to calculate the cost of shipping.

For example, a Balsa Basics RC bundle kit that measures 102cm x 34cm x 16cm and weighs 2.5 kg is actually calculated at 14kg!

This makes these very expensive to send outside the UK - a large kit can cost nearly £60 to send to the USA.

Reviews (3)

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3 Reviews:

Harvard

Rating:

09 May 2023 | Bob

I haven't finished building this kit yet as I encountered some issues that I though must be down to me, then I thought 'read the reviews and see if other customers had commented', and they had. I agree totally with the other 2 reviews and would of thought that by now someone at Vintage Model Company would have tried to build this kit and understand the frustrations identified by their customers. I intended to try to convert to electric 3 channel R/C but now have my doubts as to what other issues I will have to overcome.

HARVARD

Rating:

18 October 2016 | John

I have bought a number of model aircraft kits from Vintage Model Co. but this has not been a good one. I read with interest the comments made by Philip back in March 2016 as I have had the same problems exactly. I thought that by now Vintage would have put the faults to right as stated in their reply.
As a pensioner, I take great delight in building these models, but why o why are the instructions provided on a photocopied sheet of DIN A4. My sight is not what it used to be and I can only read the very small print with the aid of a magnifying glass.
Come on Vintage! Think about your vintage customers.

Response:

Thank you for the feedback John.

You have given us the required boot up the rear and I can confirm that we have addressed the problems with the Harvard this afternoon!

In terms of the instructions, we would have to re-type these to make them bigger - just blowing them up from the original scan will make them even more illegible.

HARVARD

Rating:

03 March 2016 | Philip

After building a Sparrowhawk for my Grandson, my family bought me the Harvard kit for my 65th, my second model in 50 years, and first ever flying scale type.

To dispose of the faults first - I'm guessing you inherited some original Veron errors. Three of the ribs are oversized (easy enough to cut down) and one of the keel pieces is duplicated. Secondly, the wing centre section as built on the plan does entirely correlate to the outer panels, and needed some fiddling. Otherwise the bundle of strip wood was generally OK, but the 1/16" stringers were of variable hardness and section, two tapering down to virtually nothing. I cut two lengths from the edge of one of the sheets to complete. Finally, the two strips for the main spar gave adequate length in total, but not enough to make the spar for the centre section in one piece, needing a join and a doubler.

But, otherwise fine. The cutting of the formers was most impressive, allowing a very accurate fuselage build and despite the small problems a fine kit indeed.

The large motor space of the Harvard encouraged me to convert to electric (KP01), modifying the nose pieces with 1/16" ply to carry the motor, and the wing centre section to carry the ESC and battery. Finally I covered with yellow and black Esaki, to match FE905, the Harvard in the collection at Hendon.

Well done Vintage, I think you are doing a great job.

Response:

Thanks Philip.

Your comments about the kit are noted and we will update our cut files.

So glad you enjoyed the build - any chance of a couple of pictures of your finished model please?