Model plans

Oh come on, put them on ebay, better than junking them. Someone will give them a home

Oh, don’t junk them. That would be a waste. If you want to send them to me, I’d be happy to pay the postage.

OK… thanks a lot – time to junk them then!

The Veron ‘solids’ wwere what I cut my pattern making teeth on, in the 1950’s, at the tender age of 15 I made the Wyvern and the Supermarine 508. They consisted of profile shaped blocks of Balsa with patterns on the plan to cut out card templates.
They had hard plastic wheels and in the case of the Wyvern a plastic multi piece propeller. Of interest when I started Aeroclub Models (whilst still in the RAF) in the late 70’s I purchased the remaining stock of wheels from the parent company, I did in fact only include them in two light aeroplane kits before manufacturing my range of white metal aircraft parts. which are still in production. I don’t think that they have a great value as in terms of accuracy and detail, (some were quite good) the drawings are of nostalgic interest only. There is a website devoted to “Solid” models as not flying model kits were then termed.

John

Aeroclub Models Nottingham

Well, if you’d seen the results of my attempts at aeromodelling, you’d realise why I’m content to leave David to Michelangelo. If I were to have a crack at a David, I’d have to inscribe ‘Modigliani’ on its base and try to pass it off as modern abstract sculpture!

Re that last comment (about David): don’t bother, it’s already been done by an Italian fellow.

Thank you, Laurence. Then I’d never have coped with them. I had difficulty enough producing the finished item, from an Airfix or Frog kit, that didn’t elicit mirth. I used to yearn after the ‘vacform’ model kits, of the rarer aircraft, but always knew that I’d be wasting my money if I bought one. So trying to form anything that looked like wings and fuselages, out of blocks of balsa wood, would have been several steps too far for me. I might as well try to carve David out of a block of marble instead!

Graham: that’s the one. I remember the gentleman in our Peterborough model shop had one made up in the window: looked beautiful. He persuaded me to buy one and it was dreadful. Must be me.

Mr avion: They were in a box with the fuselage and wings as roughly shaped balsa forms with square angles, so you had to carve them round with a razor blade then sand them. I remember mine turned out to be rather square and very unsatisfactory. Then you had to apply a white filler paint before the final coat of silver, and the transfers. Mine finished covered with little balsa whiskers.

remember them well, they were around right up until plastic kits arrived
had to be quite skilled to carve them, a bit beyond my childhood abilities

Keil Kraft did them as well as Veron

Just out of curiousity and if you can cast your mind back that far, Laurence, did the plans come as part of a boxed kit, in which the pre-formed balsa wood parts included; or were the plans accompanied by appropriately sized pieces of balsa wood that had to be cut and sanded to shape; or was it just the plans that were sold?

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I made some of the Veron series. I think there was a Sabre. Carved balsa I think. A long time ago.

My answers, to your three questions, are:

– not me
– yes
– I suspect so

However I suspect that your questions might attract more reliable answers and greater interest on one of the scale aeromodelling forums, such as www.scale-models.co.uk.