Help!! college warbird project…

I fully realise that the Spit isn’t the easiest, Vulcan would be a piece of cake in fact…. but I have this “I’ll show these bloody colonials how it should be done & with a PROPER bloody aeroplane” thing going on.

In fact what I should do is drop by the local bar where they have one of the original skins from PA908 (screwed to the ceiling) that belongs to me & made the model out of a REAL Spitfire 🙂

Thanks for the offer, but after my cunning UFO/PieDish plan the instructor is keeping a close eye on me.. 🙁

Never mind! Do I take it that it’s a profile model you are being asked to construct? An English Electric Lightning (an early mark) would be worth a look as the flying surfaces are more or less all straight lines and I think the wings are constant chord. The fuselage would be a little trickier as it has a few more in the way of curves but they are all gentle and nowhere near as complex as something like a Spitfire. Either that or a WW1 specimen – someone mentioned a Fokker EI-III which sounds ideal, otherwise a Fokker DVIII would be straightforward (square box fuselage, constant chord wings, hardly even any struts to worry about.

It might be worth having a word in class-cutie’s ear that she’s making more work for herself with a Spitfire. Tell her I said so. In fact if she’s interested, I have this WW2 aircraft recognition model of a…

Wish I was at your college! 😀 How about trying a Have Blue XST stealth demonstrator. They had fewer flat surfaces, and is a very historic aircraft.

http://www.fortunecity.com/meltingpot/portland/971/Reviews/modern/xst.htm

Any chance you could build Lockheed a model of their ATB proposal for the car park next to the B-2? 😀

Good luck with project 😉

If it would help I can send you a repro WW2 American aircraft recognition model of a Blackburn Skua. These were made from parts stamped out of a sheet of card and assembled into a semi-3D model. I have an unassembled version which I’ve scanned. Might count as cheating, but you’d have the flat sections already there…

Thanks for the offer, but after my cunning UFO/PieDish plan the instructor is keeping a close eye on me.. 🙁

If it would help I can send you a repro WW2 American aircraft recognition model of a Blackburn Skua. These were made from parts stamped out of a sheet of card and assembled into a semi-3D model. I have an unassembled version which I’ve scanned. Might count as cheating, but you’d have the flat sections already there…

Aluminium models..

Cool.Hope this gives you some motivation 😀
http://www.rojasbazan.com/index.html:eek:
Anyone seen his demo video from the site?It,s disapeared.

I know it’s not strictly old historic but what about the F117 Stealth fighter, it has no compound curves,it is a warbird & getting on for 20 yrs old.

If you go for it a number of companies make a 1/72,1/48 & 1/32 scale models.:)

I’m just up the road a bit from Plant 42.. one of the other projects we have to do is a carbon fibre B2 or F117…& I just happen to have some genuine F117 (rejected) skin laying about someplace that I could incorporate into it..I use it for paint scrapers… The college has a 12ft wide B2 on a stick in one of the parking lots.

Cees: I did look at a Halifax model while at the local model shop.. briefly considered it.. The shop is run by another ex-pat Brit who asked me to paint his Ercoupe last time I was there.

i have some great articles on scratch build but they’re with my ex!! i remember osprey have a nice little book on scratch building..

please post pics of the build and info how you go through the build.. i’m sure they’ll be MANY people here interested in it.

Box fuselage eh?

How about a Stirling, York, Halifax, Hamilcar.

Cheers

Cees

I know it’s not strictly old historic but what about the F117 Stealth fighter, it has no compound curves,it is a warbird & getting on for 20 yrs old.

If you go for it a number of companies make a 1/72,1/48 & 1/32 scale models.:)

of course there is the other advantage to picking the Spit.. class cutie will be asking for help etc..

Disregard my previous post and send me a photo of her

I went with the Mk9 Spit… LOL! I figure if I can build a real one I sure as hell ought to be able to knock out a scale model of one…. Don’t forget this is just built out of flat plate & gluing a blueprint to a sheet of 2024 T3 is one advantage over bulding a real one….It’s basically a siloette model.

Anywho, dropped by the local print shop & had the model plans enlarged & while there had em run off 3 (huge) copies of a genuine ’42 Lockheed P38 blueprint. Got the copies for free after I asked the boss if he’d like a copy for himself…. (saved a miserly $12)….

Gonna buy a disposable pie dish just to mess with the instructor…:diablo:

& of course there is the other advantage to picking the Spit.. class cutie will be asking for help etc..:cool:

damn! thinking with the wrong head again… 🙁

Nurse…Nurse..

Yes I agree,if you want to preserve your sanity a Spit isn,t a good place to start.Nowhere on the girl is there a straight line.For Blueprints there are a few good sites around.
http://www.airwar.ru/other/drawe.html
http://membres.lycos.fr/wings2/3vues/3vues.html
Also check out the modelling forums such as Hyperscale or IPMS Stockholme.
Good hunting and please send us pics of the finished project..;)

Spit’s probably the last thing you should consider. Not a straight line on it. Melvyn’s right-keep it very simple.

Before all of that choose your subject carefully. Don’t go for something with too may compound curves (ie a Spitfire with washout and a tapered, eliptical wing and no straight lines anywhere. Why not go World War One and do an Eindekker (Fokker EIII) very simple, even I scratch built one from card.

research carefully to get an easy option (straight lines and box fuselage would be perfect) You’ll probably get extra ponits for the research.

cheap cds full of blueprints on evilbay.

i’d suggest you print them to scale.. then lay your material on top and cut it rough.. look up hand built models tutorials.