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Small airforce in the making

jknaus

jknaus

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Interesting day today. Looks like I will have to put my other projects on the back burner for a while. Seems my 2 month old grandson has asked Mom for a Biplane to hang from his ceiling and his 2 year old Sister would also like one for her ceiling. So I guess I better get cracking. Have a Nieuport pulled out and will have to figure something else and will have to start building pdq. So stand by to stand by as I get the bench ready. Then will have to make a field trip down south to present them :)
James
 
Very precocious for a 2-month-old! May I suggest one of the old Revell Supersized Camels of Dr.1s?
 
Well gave this a lot of thought. As they are so young and these will probably end up in a dogfight one year I ordered some kits. Now I get too deep into building these things so I figured what if I do it in 1/48th. Too small to go nuts but big enough to look good hanging from the ceiling. So Wednesday or Thursday when they arrive i will be building until finished. I'll leave it as a surprise until i start for you to know what is going to happen :)
James
 
My dad built a Staggerwing and a Waco out of balsa and paper with dope when I was a kid. They hung from the ceiling all the time I grew up. A couple of years before he passed he gave them to a couple of boys down the street. I doubt they lasted long. He also had made a P-26 Peashooter and gave it away as well. Would have like to had them, but alas I look at it this way, they were his to give away. I can still picture them in my mind though.
 
Well the kits are in the mail so hopefully Monday they arrive.
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Those should all be fairly decent kits James. The one 1/48th kit I built wasn't all that bad. I just had to do a bunch of modding on it. It was a Albatros D.I conversion from an Eduard Albatros D.II kit. As you are building these OOB, they should be enjoyable.
 
Well the engines are almost done. Maybe a bit of oil staining but do I really need to with this being a ceiling model?? Wonder how far I should go.
Need to do wood next. Also while things dried started the floats of the Hanriot HD.2. Need a lot of sanding.
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The seats needed their backs removed and the PE backs rolled a bit and installed.
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And man but these data plates were tiny. There is also one on the pipe in front.
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James
 
sharkmouth said:
I am sure they will like it, will you if they insist on playing with them?

Regards,
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Well they are supposed to be for on the ceiling. I made sure my Daughter understood there are small parts so the kids should not play with them in case they swallow something. Then when they get older it will be fair game as kids are kids. And thats the other reason I went and bought these ones. I know they will be destroyed sometime and they are not WNW kits so I wont feel the pain, if I'm still around when the fluffy pillow AAA fires up. So I am making them nice but not going nuts on them and I hope they enjoy them as long as they are around.
James
 
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