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  • Member since
    June 2014
  • From: New Braunfels , Texas
100% - Scratch - Built
Posted by Tanker - Builder on Sunday, April 24, 2016 8:42 AM

Okay , Folks ;

   I guess i will have to fire up the old scratch building techniques for 1/144 airplanes .I mean like Pipers , Stinsons , Cessnas and other high wing birds .Plus a few low wing older connector aircraft ( Beech , And Cessna and Douglas ) and their more modern counterparts .Oh Boy ! This is going to be hard both on the eyes and the fingers .  T.B.

 P.S. I'd even be happy with a few Fokkers . No one looking at them would know what they are at eight feet away anyway !

  • Member since
    November 2009
  • From: Twin Cities of Minnesota
Posted by Don Stauffer on Tuesday, April 26, 2016 8:33 AM

There is a 1:144 kit for one of the Fokker commercial transports- forget whether it is the single or tri-motor version.  Several US airlines flew those Fokkers.

 

Don Stauffer in Minnesota

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  • From: New Braunfels , Texas
Posted by Tanker - Builder on Tuesday, August 23, 2016 1:45 PM

Hi Don ;

 I think you are referring to the Junkers aircraft .Nice thing besides the corrugated fuselage , is the fact that they seem to have different cockpit canopies .  T.B.

  • Member since
    November 2009
  • From: Twin Cities of Minnesota
Posted by Don Stauffer on Wednesday, August 24, 2016 9:13 AM

Tanker - Builder

Hi Don ;

 I think you are referring to the Junkers aircraft .Nice thing besides the corrugated fuselage , is the fact that they seem to have different cockpit canopies .  T.B.

 

No, there were two different Fokker kits, one for the single engine and one for tri-motor.  For awhile there was a US Fokker company, with the real Fokker holding controlling interest. There is also a tri-motor of an english version- forget what it was called, by a Fokker licensee in Britain.  The Fokker, popular with US airlines, is the one that Knute Rockney was killed in.

Another civil aircraft kit is the Lockheed Vega, three or four kits of that aircraft available.  Two of the kits are for the Wiley Post decals, but the plane was used by airlines, so you can build it as an airliner. I built one with homemade decals for the predecessor of TWA.  Also, there is a beautiful Boeing 40 kit in resin available.

 

Don Stauffer in Minnesota

  • Member since
    January 2014
Posted by Peter Hollis on Thursday, August 25, 2016 8:23 AM
There are a few 1/144 aircraft listed on www.shapeways.com. A quick search came up with Cessnas 140,150, Birddog, 310, Skymaster, a Turbo Porter, Do-28A and Otter all from a shop called 'Matti's minis'. They have photos of the printed versions there as well and the models look quite good - and certainly a lot easier than scratchbuilding. Peter
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  • From: Sydney, Australia
Posted by Phil_H on Thursday, August 25, 2016 9:16 AM

Don Stauffer
There is a 1:144 kit for one of the Fokker commercial transports- forget whether it is the single or tri-motor version.  Several US airlines flew those Fokkers.

According to Scalemates, there has been a number of 1/144 scale releases of the F.VII trimotor by AZ Model

There's also a number of kits available in 1/72 by Valom and Zvezda (ex-Frog)

 

 

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