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  • Member since
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  • From: Green Lantern Corps HQ on Oa
Posted by LemonJello on Tuesday, March 28, 2006 7:48 AM

I could go that route and buy something, but I'd rather try and do it myself and see what results.  I'm looking at someday turning a six foot long shelf into a modern carrier deck or the apron of a flightline for my 1/48 planes and helos as well as my 1/35 helos.  I'd get more satisfaction from doing it myself, though the PE cat-eyes and tie downs would work for me.

Does anyone know of a site with diagrams for the correct tie down of aircraft? 

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  • From: NJ 07073
Posted by archangel571 on Monday, March 27, 2006 4:28 PM
hahaha.  i am pretty sure 1 out of 10 model builders would at one point of their life want to build displays like that.  who has the patent pending eh?
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  • From: West Virginia, USA
Posted by mfsob on Monday, March 27, 2006 10:45 AM
Ummmmmm ... copyright issues with that idea!
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  • From: NJ 07073
Posted by archangel571 on Sunday, March 26, 2006 12:58 PM
verlinden actually makes resin one for the airfields and decks that goes for pretty low price, you can probably get one of those and try to duplicate them yourself i guess.
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Posted by LemonJello on Sunday, March 26, 2006 5:16 AM

I've had a similar thought to this myself.  I've got a 6-foot by about 18 inch shelf with most of my latest builds on it.  I try to stick to 1/48 for aircraft, but I've got a few 1/35 helos as well.  My plan is to make the whole shelf into a tarmac flightline to display all my builds. 

I like the carrier deck idea.  Maybe I'll eventually make another shelf like that, with the tie-downs. 

That's why I'd like to see some new plastic molds of airfield/carrier deck equipment in 1/48.  Then I'd just make the shelf one big dio.

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carrier deck shelf
Posted by archangel571 on Saturday, March 25, 2006 4:08 PM

I have been having this ridiculous idea in my head for one or two weeks and just wanted to let it out of my head. 

I love WWII US carrier borne aircrafts and some modern ones as well.  Since they are all in 1/48 scale (cept for a tiny Tamiya 1/72 corsair, good kit though) and up, I am thinking about converting an entire display shelf just for them.  getting wood strips and lay them right over the shelf and try to figure out a way to do those metal strips for tie downs out of body filler.  the thing is that shelf is pretty darn big at at least 2 1/2 by 4 feet.  should I try to do the deck in 1/48 scale, which would take me a year, or to save some work and do it  in 1/32 scale.  The only modern ones I got are F-14As in 1/32, 48, 72, and 144, but am thinking about getting that trumpeter A-7 and another Tamiya phantom II (shouldn't but i want to...)  so now the debate comes to whether I should be laying out the deck modern style or wwII style.

I will leave that off till summer I guess, but there is at least one thing I am sure about, most of the wings are to be built folded.

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