Hot Little Resin Racer!

[mtnflyer]

Well, here I am. One of the new kids on the block.

I'm starting this post for two good reasons. Firstly, I wanted to find out how easy it was to work this site. Secondly, I'm preparing a build review on the Dekno CR-3 resin kit, and it needs to be built OOB for that purpose. So, I thought I may as well build it here.

Like I said, I'm building the Dekno Cessna CR-3 Racer; 1/72 scale resin kit. Its a model of that beautiful little yellow and red racer, of which only one was built. The real one only lived for 61 days, but, won every race it was entered in. And here it is:

There's actually quite-a-bit of material in that little shoebox:

Once the bag is opened, it proves to be an attractive little kit:

I'm going to begin work on it in the morning. Tonight, I'm going to try and research some more, although, there dosen't seem to be much info on the web concerning this little hot-rod.

Bye-the-way; that's a caribou on the Canadian quarter, not a moose, eh! Guy

 

[moon puppy]

You got my attention!

 

[chukw]

Alright, Guy- you're on! Looks like a sweet little project- what a hot number this little was! I've seen some amazing balsa and tissue free-flight rubber band jobs fly like crazy. Without some scale element handy you'd think this was a carrier fighter, but it was just a lawn chair streamlined around that mighty radial- whoo!

How's the quality of the casting and resin? Looks pretty nice from here.

Cheers!
chuk

 

[jknaus]

Looks pretty cool to me. Will be interesting to see the build.
James

 

[Sharkmouth]

Without knowing what you have, I hope these are of use:

Regards and have fun,

 

[moon puppy]

Either that's a really big dude or really small aircraft.

 

[Iron Mike]

Either that's a really big dude or really small aircraft.

Wasn't he in a Bond movie? Cool subject, Guy! 61 days, huh?

 

[mtnflyer]

Without knowing what you have, I hope these are of use:

Sharkmouth - Thankyou for the photo references, but yes, I already have them all in my file. I am really surprised that these seem
to be all that are available. I would of thought that in the early 30's the media would have been all over this little hotrod, and
a multitude of press photos would be easy to find. Not so, it seems.

Chuk - Inspection proves that the resin castings in this kit are not all that bad, but not top-of-the-line either. The engine is the
worst part, with cylinders that are not uniform length and some air bubble damage on cooling fins. Fiddling with dry fit, I can see that
careful sanding and filler will be the order of the day. The landing gear will be far too delicate in resin, and I would prefer to
use wire. But, for review purposes, I am compelled to build OOB. Your right, though, at a mere 17' in length and with an 18.5' W/S,
this was literally a lawn chair with an engine around it.

 

[rob hart]

Sheesh! I've never heard of this airplane. What a neat project. Looking forward to seeing how your build progresses.

 

[sacktime]

hot little resin racer try to say that 3 times fast

 

[Plastik Smurff]

Will be watchin this space on this one.

 

[Tim A.]

I love the old speedster's. Very simple mentally..... strap the biggest engine you can find on the thing and then find someone crazy enough to pilot it. Interesting that it wasn't hard to find the pilots. I'm guessing the Granville Brothers were stealing the show. There is a sobering bit of footage on youtube of one of thier GeeBee's spinning in and killing the pilot while trying to set a speed record.
Can't wait to see this little number finished!


Tim

 

[mtnflyer]

I'm afraid I can only work on the project little by little after work. Perhaps I can post progress photos come the weekend.
The racers coming together, slowly.