A P-40E Warhawk ... scale undetermined
So a few weeks ago I was perusing Facebook. I came across this fellow's page from Oklahoma, who calls himself Pappy. He cuts out wooden warbirds and attaches big spinning props to place in your garden. He calls them "whirlygigs".
I liked them so much that I decided to make one for myself. The basic idea is to take plans for an aircraft, in my case a P-40, and cut them from wood such as fence slatting. You then sand them smooth and attach the wings and stabilizer. I probably didn't follow his building methodologies on attaching the wings, as he suggest drilling holes through which you screw the wings to the fuselage. I instead drilled holes through the fuselage, lined them up to drill mating holes in the wings, and attached via wood glue and short wooden dowels that one finds in the router sections at tool shops such as Sears.
I grabbed a big colorful prop from the dollar store, and a piece of steel rod from the local hardware shop. I was originally going to paint this in Flying Tigers colors, but decided that was going to be a bit difficult without masking considering I was using Krylon out of spray can in my back yard with all the wind blowing. I settled on gray for the underside and green for the top side, then hand painted the tiger shark mouth and eyes and the US insignia.
No idea what the scale would be, but it's pretty big, so probably ~ 1/24. It was a fun project, now I have to figure out exactly where to mount it. And in a couple of the photos ... spoiler alert ... the eagle eyed out there will devine my next scale modeling project.