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I. Ae.-24 Calquin, the creole Mosquito

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I. Ae.-24 Calquin, the creole Mosquito
Posted by el_jere on Saturday, July 31, 2010 8:14 PM

Hi there guys!
I´m here with a weird bird (at least for those outside Argentina) a I.Ae-24 Calquin (royal eagle in a native language).
It was a wooden plane, designed in Argentina during 1944 and 45. the prototype were builded during 1945 and the 4 of july of 1946
one of the prototypes was flown by Kurt Tank himself.
By the end of the production 100 Calquin were built plus 10 more for experimentation and evaluation purpose.


The concept of the Calquin were bornduring the WWII, as the strategic material were getting more and more difficult to get. So a wooden plane was a logic idea.
Much was said about the similar look of the Calquin and the Mosquito, but the true is that similar solutions were finded to similar problems, still I belive that the British desing may have influenciated the Argentinian engineers, to say more the Calquin was designed to carry the same engines than the Mosquito, but those power plants were imposible to get for Argentina, this way the plane ended with two R-1830 this way the underpower and the change of design doomed the Calquin and ended up been a slow atack plane.
After revolution of ´45 that overthrow Peron the plane fall in disgrace since it was a powerful Peronist simbol and the last flown in 1958, afterthat all the planes were reduced to pieces by ax and burned and today not a single piece of the plane survive :-[

The kit is a resin modelfrom a new brand for me -Mirage Resin Model- and it´s the worse plane I built in my life, poor desing, poorly detalied, poor enginieer etc etc... I did my best to get a decent model but...
I added a scratch build model of the AMI Tabano a remote controlled guided bomb that was evaluated with the unit A72
Here are the pics (tonorrow I will take new ones since ther are a couple of thing to add and correct)







Well that´s all for now, as usual any comment or critics will be wellcome
all the best for you

Jeremias

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Posted by Gamera on Saturday, July 31, 2010 8:29 PM

First time I think I've seen a Calquin but what a sharp, sleek, and fast looking aircraft. Too bad she was so underpowered.

I recently finished a limited run Pe-2 so I understand what a bear these kits can be. Still your Calquin turned out great! Beautiful model and the bomb you build looks great too!

"I dream in fire but work in clay." -Arthur Machen

 

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Posted by Phil_H on Saturday, July 31, 2010 9:14 PM

Hey Jeremias,

This is pretty cool. It looks like the love child of a Mossie and a Beaufighter... Big Smile

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Posted by Borg R3-MC0 on Sunday, August 1, 2010 2:57 AM

I really like the looks of your Calquin. I did not know that there was a kit of this plane, I have found some plans on the web how to convert a Mosquito to a Calquin but that was to much work for my. I have been wanting to build one ever since the Calquin was featured exstensivly in the french Airmagazine.

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Posted by el_jere on Sunday, August 1, 2010 4:22 PM

Thanks a lot for your comments, means a lot to me Big Smile

Limited runs kits can be pain in theZip it! but I´m used to build that kind of kits since I lke to model unusal subjets, but this kit is by far the most dificult I built

Utereg: The model is from Mirage Resin Models, a Brazilian brand, and it´s the only kit of this plane. here it´s their web site

http://www.mirageresinmodels.com/

it´s a dificut and expensive model, butif you want a Calquin this is the only game in town... the conversion looks way to dificult, and the most probably  is that we ruin both the Mosquito and the Calquin

regards!

 

Jere

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Posted by Viper Has The Lead on Tuesday, August 17, 2010 12:14 PM

Hey Hey my friend,
                                  Well now, this is something special, if anyone else has built a Calquin hands up now !!  LOL thought so, you have the bravest of modelling hearts Jere, one look at those resin parts and I would have slid it all quietly back into the box and moved onto something else !! Knowing how determined you can be, and not wanting to waste all that CASH LOL I'm not surprised you persisted and beat this pile of resin into a very very nice looking model. I think you are right about similar needs bringing similar designs, how much Mossie is in the Calquin only the designers really know. Shame there were no Merlin engines available to use, it would have added to the sleek look.
I had a look on the Mirage Resin site Jere, and ouch that is an expensive model, was amused to see they were saying the Calquin was being warmly received by modellers !!
Some pretty horrible join problems there by the look of it Jere. Not going to be too picky about all that as it's resin and limited run, and for all it's problems at least Mirage Resin had a go at something different and interesting. Bet we get half a hundred new Spitfires and Me.109's again this year !!
Anyways my friend, you have pulled this one together with your usual skill, nice cockpit bits and IP, obviously your work as I'm sure Eduard managed to miss this one. LOL
I was very taken by the Tabano, wow what a flashy bomb !! Cool
Just had a good look at the pictures, nice job Jere, from seeing the state of the resin parts, and how you have ended up with a really fine looking model is a credit to you Jere. This one ought to be at the front of the shelf, pride of place !! Send the pictures to FSM too, it deserves to be in the mag.
Did you use up all your sandpaper ? ha ha. Stick out tongue
It was sad to hear the story about the real aircraft being destroyed by numbskulls for political reasons, an insult to the Argentinians who built them I think. A rare bird indeed Jere, nicely done my friend.
Can't wait to see what you're cooking up next, lol
All the best,
Mick.

"All modern aircraft have four dimensions: span, length, height and politics. TSR.2 simply got the first three right." Sir Sydney Camm
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Posted by dpdelhoyo on Saturday, October 15, 2016 8:33 AM
The "Tabano" was remotely guided gliding bomb, not sure if passed the prototype phase. Regards.
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Posted by Bossman on Monday, October 17, 2016 7:31 PM

Very nice job on a difficult kit.

The shorter brother of the Mosquito.

Chris

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Posted by WannabeFarmboy on Monday, October 17, 2016 8:26 PM

Great looking build from a less than desirable quality kit. Well done!

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Posted by Toshi on Tuesday, October 18, 2016 6:25 AM

Great job on such a difficult resin kit!

Toshi

On The Bench: Revell 1/48 B-25 Mitchell

 

Married to the most caring, loving, understanding, and beautiful wife in the world.  Mrs. Toshi

 

 

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  • From: Australia
Posted by dpdelhoyo on Saturday, October 29, 2016 1:36 AM
I have somewhere an old magazine article with a conversion froma Mossie to a Calquin, cannibalizing a few other kits. If anyone is interested, can try to dig in my storage... as long as you can translate from Spanish!
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Posted by DDonSS3 on Saturday, October 29, 2016 8:34 AM

Wow! Great job on such a difficult kit. I'd love to see a 1/48 mainstream plastic kit of the Calquin. I've always thought it was a nice looking aircraft.

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Posted by dpdelhoyo on Saturday, October 29, 2016 8:42 AM
And a 1/ 72 please!
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Posted by dpdelhoyo on Sunday, December 24, 2023 10:58 PM

Hi all, and Happy Holidays!

Brief update, a couple kits were released since the last post, according to ScaleMates database; this is the 1/72 one.

https://www.scalemates.com/kits/el-baron-rojo-calq3d72-iae-24-calquin--1456815

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