[Claudius]

How much electronics you gonna cram into it

The equipment bay is positively cavernous.

I like the composite version:
http://www.hobbyking.com/hobbyking/store...duct=20276

I do like the looks of that too, but it's not a variant. For one, it's "tiny" - about a foot and a half shorter

hope you have a box trailer . whats ya wife think of this one?

Wings remove, so that should be ok. Once I figure out where I can actually fly it

Wife expressed her tremendous disappointment... that I didn't hold out for the carbon-fibre vinyl covered one.

Wow that is Big !! It's an X-8 ??

What motor lipo and ESC are you going to use to power it ?

Hacker A30-10XL v2 with a Castle ICE 75.

Not sure on batts yet - will probably begin by just paralleling up a couple 4S 2200mAh batts I already have and see how it goes. From RCG, seems like there's a a pretty wide range of options here - from 3/4S with a few thousand mAh, through to some folks running 4S/16000mAh, 6S/10000mAh etc.

I picked one of these up from ebay (super and cheaper) the other day.

It's a decent size at 1.5m span it should be able to carry some gear.
flying weight is suposidly 2.4Kg

Very nice. Looks like a beauty. I wouldn't have guessed the size from those pics!