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On December 17th, the 120th anniversary of the Wright brothers' first successful flight passed. Although a flight took place on December 14th, it ended in failure - the airplane landed with damage. Officially, it is recognized that the first flight of an engine-powered airplane took place three days later. On this occasion, I would like to present a model of my own creation. Since there is currently no 1:48 scale model of the Flyer 1 on the market, I had to model it in 3D and print it myself, which I would now like to show. It cost me a lot of work, numerous attempts, and as you can see, not everything is as it should be yet, but the model is already close to ideal. I invite you to view it and share your opinions. I will need to finish the rigging, but I am already showing what stage it is at. Would you like to assemble such a model yourself?
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That is quite a bit of work there. I know very little about 3D printing except that there is a lot of time and work involved from beginning to end. Would it be possible for you to take a few photos from different angles so we can see more of your model? It might help others to see if they want to take a shot at trying 3D printing. I'm a little too old to try it.
Congrats on your very nice work there.
Stay safe.
Jim
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That's pretty cool - wow 120 years! Revell put out a kit in 1/39th scale - pretty strange choice.
Thanks,
John
What I can see in the photo looks great.
Tonka did the Flyer in 1/48 and I have that kit. If you need any help with references on the Flyer I have done a lot of research on it and have copies of all the files the Franklin Institute got from the Wrights. Also on the Model B, lots of detail photos. The Flyer in the Smithsonian is actually a collection of spare parts the Wrights originally provided to the London Science Museum, later transferred to the Smithsonian.
To see build logs for my models: http://goldeneramodel.com/mymodels/mymodels.html
I didnt even know that there was a model B. What is the difference between the two?
The Model B had no front elevator, among other changes. It also had the upright four cylinder engine the Wrights developed at Huffman Prairie. There was also a Model C, and the Military Flyer which was much like the B. There were many variants and none stayed in factory shape very long.
keavdog That's pretty cool - wow 120 years! Revell put out a kit in 1/39th scale - pretty strange choice.
Yeah, Monogram issued that in 1968, sort of a holdover from the old box scale days.
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Great job!
It's pretty amazing that there is no modern 1/48 scale kit of this aircraft. There's some pretty obscure stuff out there and the Wright Flyer seems like a natural.
Dan
I have the Mno/Revell in my stash and will start it soon. This will be my third build of it. I recently found a great article, and then a very good web page on the Wright Flyer with great reference photos. I intend to pull out all the stops on this build.
I look forward to that builld missleman. That will be very interesting to me.
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