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Hi Eugene! Love those stick & Tissue planes. Use to build them all the time. Nowadays, every once in a while I build one for a break. About two months ago I built two of them when i hit a snag in my current build. Finished them and went back to the build an old Pyro Robert E. Lee Mississippi Steamboat.
Going to love watching what you do with that kit. They are a lot of fun to build and fly.
Jim
Stay Safe.
PS - Still have 1/2 dozen of them in the stash.
Main WIP:
On the Bench: Artesania Latina (aka) Artists in the Latrine 1/75 Bluenose II
I keep hitting "escape", but I'm still here.
Yes they are fun and a nice change of pace from plastic models
Getting the stringers installed.
I'll be starting a Stirling Aeronca C-3 soon. My ulimate goal is to scratch a C-3 in 1:32 scale with detailed engine and interior, and figured building the kit first would be a good experience.
Yes it is a good idea...this is a semi scratch built build.I obtained the plans and took them to FedEx Kinkos to have 4 copies of the instructions reduced by 25 percent.I cut the parts diagrams out of one of the instructions and used them as templates to cut out the parts out of sheet basswood.I cut the slots for the stringers with a reinforced cut off wheel in my Dremel moto tool.
Hi! Eugene!!
Well, that's about how far I am on a Taylorcraft AND a Beech! Nice little planes AND, I Forgot how much fun they are to build. I started them because I needed a break from The Pyro/Lindberg/Life-Like, Natchez. I have replaced ALL her Cabin and Engineering Department windows with Tichy Train Group windows. Doors next!
Yes they are fun;can you take pics of the Beech and Taylor craft!?
Amazing that this kit is still around... I built the exact same Sterling kit maybe 50 years ago, and I still have it hanging in my den. It has authentic, realistic weathering from dust and tobacco smoke in the house over all those years. Still looks good!
Gimme a pigfoot, and a bottle of beer...
Built quite a few stick and tissue models in my youth ("What...that long ago??? What was that, the late Pleistocene?") ...mostly Guillow WW1. Love to see this project developing, since it's an a/c type I've always had a grudging fondness for...but have not yet personally modeled in anything but ancient 1/72.
Party on!
Greg
George Lewis:
Yes they are a nostalgia trip for sure!
No Promises:
I am sure they look fine Tanker!
Hey! Maybe we'll need a separate section in the Forums for Stick & Tissue Planes?
fox Hey! Maybe we'll need a separate section in the Forums for Stick & Tissue Planes? Jim Stay Safe.
One thing I have done when I wanted to build a stick model of a metal aircraft was to use something else than tissue as covering. I have used glossy card stock and 0.20 sheet styrene. You can easily dimple both to represent rivets. I bought a roll of thin roof flashing aluminum- it is the cheapest form of the metal to buy. Haven't tried it yet, but will sometime soon.
Cool !I have used Monokote which is a plastic film in a Guilliows Dehavalid Beaver and it came out well
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