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AIRCRAFT - 'It Floats and Flies Group Build' - Feb 1st 2005 to Sept 30 (Gotta finish sometime!)

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  • From: Newfoundland, Canada
Posted by rodc on Saturday, June 18, 2005 7:04 AM
Thanks for the info bstrump....I wasn't even aware of ModelCraft and the Twin Otter will be a must for me.....

RODC
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Posted by bstrump on Friday, June 17, 2005 11:00 PM
rodc, I forgot to answer your question about the Twin Otter kit. It's a Mtachbox kit that has been re-released by Modelcraft Canada and should be easily obtainable. It's not cheap though, at around $20.
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Posted by bstrump on Friday, June 17, 2005 10:55 PM
Wow rodc, that is bright! Looks great so far. I can't wait to see it with all those stripes on it. Excellent progress.
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Posted by rodc on Friday, June 17, 2005 8:27 PM
Finally some real progress to show. It seems that over the last two months I'm averaging about 30 minutes per weak with my big orange tanker 282. It is not my best work but I can also blame some of that on the quality of the plastics Heller uses....I find them too slight and so they easily warp. Because they easily warp, they leave seams. Because they leave seams I have to putty.......I hate too putty......
Less I digress.....enjoy the pics and maybe soon I might be able to get some decs and the remaining some assembly finished and futured.....

Until next time,

RODC









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Posted by Anonymous on Friday, June 17, 2005 6:21 PM
Hello, I'm new on this forum, but I hope Im on the right place. I'm looking for plans for one of the early plane of the Navy, the Burgess-Dunne AH-7. I found some 3 View, but without measure. I want to scratchbuilt this flyingwings in the 1:48 and I need some precise documentation.
Can someone, somewhere help me?

Thanks.
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Posted by rjkplasticmod on Friday, June 17, 2005 9:37 AM
Looking forward to the pics RODC.

Regards, Rick
RICK At My Age, I've Seen It All, Done It All, But I Don't Remember It All...
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Posted by rodc on Friday, June 17, 2005 7:44 AM
I haven't checked this thread in a while so I wasn't sure if the GB was still active or not.....glad to see it stills operating. I will get some pictures of my CL215 up tonight....right now the main fuselage/wing/vertical stabilizer is completed, puttied (aaaaarrrrrggggggghhhhhhhhh) and painted. Currently painting the anti-glare nose covering and hopefully be able to move on to the decals this weekend.

BTW, bstrump.....the Twin Otter looks fabulous.....are these kits hard to get? I flew in one of those lovelies many years ago, albeit without floats but she did have tundra tires (half-inflated DC-3 tires) that allows landing on unprepped surfaces. Great aircraft, we landed on a large gravel sand-bar in a braided river system in Northern Labrador and I have to say it was a smoother landing than if it was on tarmac. It might be an aircraft I'd like to build if they can be easily obtained.

Keep watching for my pics of the big orange tanker.....coming soon.

Cheers for now!

RODC
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Posted by bstrump on Sunday, June 12, 2005 10:50 PM
Don't hold your breath, frosty!Big Smile [:D]Not much happening on my end right now but the Twin Otter is in the paint shop anyway.
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Posted by Anonymous on Friday, June 10, 2005 3:32 PM
looking forward 2 seeing some more completed builds here soon !
(hint hint)

frostySmile [:)]
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Posted by Anonymous on Friday, June 10, 2005 3:30 PM
QUOTE: Originally posted by jratz

Looks really good, Frosty !!!!
If my Felixstowe were finsihed, it would feel menaced ....
I have always found the rudder on the W29 interesting -- one would think they would want it out of the spray, etc, area. I don't know if they did it this way for field of fire or something else.
John


John:
sorry i missed this one...
u got it rite, the rudder on the w29 was positioned that way so the gunner
wouldn't shoot it (like indy's dad did in 'the last crusade', LOL !)
thanx !

frostySmile [:)]
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Posted by rjkplasticmod on Wednesday, June 8, 2005 10:09 AM
Looking good Aurora. I hope to get back to my build soon.

Regards, Rick
RICK At My Age, I've Seen It All, Done It All, But I Don't Remember It All...
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Posted by Aurora-7 on Tuesday, June 7, 2005 10:09 PM
Time to return!

Well now back to some me time. Here's what I had done of the Mavis fuselage before I had stopped. I had decided not to go into detail with the cockpit since a test fit of the canopy in place showed that not much interior would be visible. I had broken one control wheel and spent a couple of frustrating hours trying to fix it with tweezers through a magnifying glass. Forget it. I'll reposition the crew figures to look a little more natural in their seats. Maybe a map on the map table.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v70/Aurora-7/Mavis/mavis1.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v70/Aurora-7/Mavis/Mavis2.jpg

I had used a RAF color for the interiror green. Looked pretty close to some color cockpit images I had seen of an Emily so I decided to go with it

 

 

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Posted by J-Hulk on Thursday, May 19, 2005 11:52 AM
How are we all doing? I'm back from the Shizuoka Hobby Show, finished with the MBT-70, and ready to finish the ol' HK-1!
Now, where did I put that thing...
~Brian
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Posted by Aurora-7 on Tuesday, May 17, 2005 3:03 PM
I'm awfully sorry I have not posted here in a long time but I've been in the middle of a project at work and I've done no modeling at all since mid April. The project is due to be finished this Friday so I'll be at it again soon.

Ghetto, the seats look great!

 

 

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Posted by bstrump on Tuesday, May 10, 2005 9:47 PM
Gettochild, your work on the pit looks great. As for my build, not much has changed since I last posted pics, except to clean up a few seams.
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Posted by rjkplasticmod on Tuesday, May 10, 2005 12:42 PM
Nice progress guys. Mine is still staring at me from the bench.

Regards, Rick
RICK At My Age, I've Seen It All, Done It All, But I Don't Remember It All...
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Posted by cossack on Tuesday, May 10, 2005 5:59 AM
I haven't forgotten this build either ... just been flat out with work Sad [:(]. Catalina is coming along - finishing framing for final assembly then decaling. Pics to follow.

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  • From: Connecticut, East of the River
Posted by tlivancso on Monday, May 9, 2005 10:03 PM
Well I'm still working on mine, with the relocation to Iowa coming up. I have not much time for any gluing at all, hope to get more done this week.

Cheers
Thom

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Posted by ghettochild on Thursday, May 5, 2005 9:55 PM
sorry ive been out awhile, but ive been moving into a house. so all ive done is alittle cockpit work hope to have more pics latter
-Josh
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  • From: Newfoundland, Canada
Posted by rodc on Sunday, May 1, 2005 8:13 PM
Hello GB'ers....

I finally have some progress pics to show. I am building a Canadair CL215 air tanker and currently have everything primed, cockpit masked and primed and some sub-assemblies completed which are shown below. This kit will be built OOTB:

Fuselage Halves #1



Fuselage Halves #2



Fuselage Halves #3



Cockpit #1



Cockpit #2



Wings & Vertical Stabilizer



Wingtip Floats and Engine Nacelles


I am not building very quickly since life just dealt me some hardship that no parent should face - the loss of my only child to a hit and run driver. His passing was one month on the 28th of April. Nonetheless, I am trying to return to some sort of "new" normal life and have tried to make time to get back to modelling since it helps me with my loss by focussing my thoughts here for a few minutes.

I am getting ready to next mate the fuselage halves, clean up the seams and maybe mount the wings. My next pictures, I hope will look something like a plane instead of pieces. I will also include a ruler to show you guys the size of this 1/72 scale subject.

Until next time.....

RODC
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Posted by Aurora-7 on Thursday, April 28, 2005 3:13 PM
rmulhe,

I was planning on doing scratch work in the cockpit but decided agains it since I do want to finish the kit Wink [;)] It's bad enough I busted up one control wheel! With the canopy in place and for a 1/72 scale kit I didn't think the effort would show. And for me it doesn't make me feel better 'knowing its there'.

I'm doing some light sanding to reduce the rivet effect but I'm no rescribing. That would take too long for me. I still have'nt mated the wings yet and I've just started putting the engines together for painting. I'm trying to decide whether to use wires or stretched sprue for the float and wing rigging. I'm leading towards sprue.

 

 

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Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, April 28, 2005 11:06 AM
Aurora-7, I hope you're not having as many difficulties with the Mavis as I'm having with the Emily--what a beast! I've sanded down all the rivets and scratchbuild a good part of the interior, but at every step there is more sanding and more filling and more sanding! I'm almost ready to start the exterior painting.
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Posted by bstrump on Tuesday, April 26, 2005 8:48 PM
Sign - Ditto [#ditto] Thanks!
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Posted by rjkplasticmod on Tuesday, April 26, 2005 12:00 PM
The extension is gratefully accepted Smile [:)].

Regards, Rick
RICK At My Age, I've Seen It All, Done It All, But I Don't Remember It All...
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Posted by Aurora-7 on Tuesday, April 26, 2005 10:32 AM
No, I haven't dropped this build but I have been having problems with my camera and I'm not as far along with my Mavis as I'd like to be. So I'm at decalring an extension (for myself at least Wink [;)] ) and If I can get my camera's memory problem fixed, I'll post what I have so far this week.

Sorry for being away for a while but I've hadn't had much building in for the last 3 weeks.

 

 

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Posted by rrmelend on Friday, April 22, 2005 12:27 PM
Real life has also hit me very hard with a lot of problems at work. I've been spending all my free time filing out job apps. I'm still trying to get something done on my build but we'll see.
P.S. If anyone knows of a H.S. history job opening for next school year in Phoenix, let me know.
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Posted by Quagmyre on Friday, April 15, 2005 10:14 PM
Good to see the other builds coming along nicely. We'll have to do this GB again for 2006. I plan to build that 1/48 scale Resin POMKIT PBM-3D Mariner someday, and a 2006 IF&FGB would provide a good excuse.Big Smile [:D]


Current and Subsequent Projects:
1/48 scale Tamiya P-47 "Razorback" - Complete
1/48 scale Testors/Lone Star Models PT-22 Recruit - 20% Complete 
1/48 scale Monogram C-47 Skytrain - Not Started

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Posted by Aurora-7 on Thursday, April 14, 2005 11:23 AM
Sorry for not posting anything for a while. The acurssed real world has been hitting me hard the past week or so. I aiming for posting images by Sunday night.

 

 

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Posted by rrmelend on Wednesday, April 13, 2005 1:21 PM
I'm about 70% done with the seams on my PBM. It is a lot to fill and sand. I am hoping to get some more time to work on her this week and weekend. My biggest concern right now is trying to find a frame and cover for what I want to do with her.
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Posted by rjkplasticmod on Thursday, April 7, 2005 10:22 AM
Looking forward to some pics Aurora. I finally got back to work on the S-43. Should have some pics to post soon.

Regards, Rick
RICK At My Age, I've Seen It All, Done It All, But I Don't Remember It All...
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