Charles Lipken, Naperville, Illinois
“I’ve always liked the Boeing P-26 Peashooter,” Charles says. “It’s so tiny that it looks like a toy, but it was the U.S. Army Air Corps’ frontline fighter in the mid-1930s. Although it was considered a modern monoplane, it still had wire-braced wings, fixed landing gear, and an open cockpit.” Charles snapped up a 1/72 scale Revell Germany kit and went to work, adding seat belts (cut from 1/32" strips of drafting tape), an instrument panel, a joystick, a throttle quadrant, and rudder pedals to the cockpit. The bracing wires are .008" steel guitar strings (1st, or high E); antenna wire is .004" nylon quilting thread.