Any of you guys just design and build a plane out of sheet plastic and wood?d

Great stuff - and creativity and skills galore.

Don - I really like the Offy

Excellent!

I do a lot of scratch building.  Here is my 1:24 scale Pietenpol.  Using 1:24 allowed me to use an engine from a Model A kit.  Also, I used Finecast wire wheels intended for car kits.

Materials included basswood, plastic and aluminum.

I'm kind of a gearhead, and love engines.  I build large scale engine kits whenever I find them, but there are not that many, so I have to scratch build them.  First is a 1:8 Hispano Suiza.

Finally here is a 110 cubic inch Offie midget race car engine- the engine that dominated midget racing for decades.

Again, wood, aluminum and plastic.

I built this rail tank out of sheet plastic and a few T-28 turrets.  

Like Rob, Star Wars was the one event that I attribute my interest in scratchbuilding to.  It was the critical push to try something.  Prior to that, I could not even imagine trying.

Fun to be creative!

After the original Star Wars came out in 1977, I was always trying to design new star fighters using bits and pieces of built model kits. I remember using space shuttle engines, the nose turret of a Monogram B-24, drops tanks, etc.

I made a small scratch plane years ago (Berezniak-Isaev BI-1), with a vac-formed fuselage and sheet plastic flying surfaces.

I have had thoughts about larger projects, like maybe a Convair Sea Dart or Blohm und Voss BV-155.  But nowadays, even esoteric subjects can get the full injection molded treatment.  The Douglas Skyshark by Clear Prop! is a good example.

Still, the Sea Dart calls.  Perhaps a project for the 30 year file.

I also want to know how to make it

Thanks!I had some sheet plastic lying around and some wood so I thought ,why not?

GMorrison

Planes, no. Buildings? All the time.

Cool model.

bill

Kind of the same...quite a few buildings and the occasional sci-fi-ish spacecraft. For planes, I've saved that kind of scratch building for real designs...mostly WW1 Central Powers a/c not well-served (at least at the time) by kit manufacturers.

Looks great, Philo! And yours too, RealG! I wish I had the patience...AND SKILL!

Does anybody remember that Brazillian Dentist that used to build planes out of "junk"? He posted some photos years back, but I have seen nothing since.

Cool!

Not a starship, but a trash hauler (military cargo plane).

neat star Cruiser!

Ha ha, yes, sorta.

I did have to make my own plans for it, and used lots of balsa wood to form the shape.

But I never did an original design.

Planes, no. Buildings? All the time.

Cool model.

bill

Yes just made a vauge sketch and went at it!

WallKnaow:

Thas a strange lookin, but, interestin lookin Boidy