Scratchbuilt

[HealzDevo]

Perhaps a captured Lightning in German Colours would be cool.

[gerar]

Hi Guys.....
Very happy many of you have liked my wood models....."like models used to be"...
Ok plans sources..........check this site, it gives a bunch of links to 3 view plans from all over the world 3-View and Aircraft Resources

Finished the Cant- 501 a few days ago and continued with the Bolo and SM-71......Have fun everyone........ PS: Note the "paper" decals..

[Wurger]

Cool model with a small diorame. But could you tell Gerar, if you used an adhesive paper tape to make easier applaying the red paint on wings?

[Heinz]

I'd reckon that turret position above the engine would be mighty uncompfortable.

[gerar]

Hi Wurger>..........What you see on the wings..the stripes..are not paint, they are pieces of shinny paper!!!!..just an old technique...
Heinz.......You bet, the top observer " rattled" to the vibration of the engine
during all the flight, not a nice pleace to fly in!!!!!

[HealzDevo]

Very nice seaplane. Do you enter these in modelling competitions? There seems to be a lot of talent involved in creating these.

[Wurger]

Originally Posted by gerar

Hi Wurger..........What you see on the wings..the stripes..are not paint, they are pieces of shinny paper!!!!..just an old technique...

Looking at the pic I was convinced the stripes had been painted with the red enamel.I'm a bit surprised.You have real talent Gerar.

[HealzDevo]

Yes, real talent. I am sure that you would be in with a real chance if you entered some of your models in a competition.

[gerar]

Hi Wurger and HealzDevo.......Thank you gentlemen for your kind words.
Back in the 30´s 40´s and early 50´s when "solid" model Kits were sold all over the "decals" were just printed in regular paper.....I thought it would be nice to remember that in this model so I just cut up some shinny paper and pasted it to the wings........)
You know Healz, you hardly see any "scratchbuilders" contest today....99.9999% of them are only for plastic models. I entered the SM-81 in a contest in Milan, Italy in Dicember 2006, only to have the "scratchbuilt" category not mentioned at all for I was the only contestant!!!!!!!!!....Incredible, I din´t get even a picture of the contest.....just sending the model to Italy via FedEx cost me US$ 129.00!!!!!!!!...............Never again in Italy!!!!!! --------------
I am now making to strange birds.....an SM-71, the first Italian Civil aircraft to carry mail from Rome to Argentina in 1934.....and a CA-134, which lost the competion to the RO-37 also around 1934............will post photos later on...

[HealzDevo]

Okay sounds good.

[Wurger]

Waiting for these pics.

[HealzDevo]

Sounds very good, waiting with interest.

[gerar]

Hi Amigos............

Not much to see yet, here is the 8 passanger SM-71. I should be finishing it by middle of May, in the mean time started a very strange CA-134, only one made for a competition on Observation planes the Regia Aeronautica release.....the winner was the RO-37.
I could no find any plans of the CA-134 anywhere so I used the "photoreference" technique. Which is taking measurements out of photos of the aircraft related to the witdth and length of a known subject in the photo near the plane. With a good drawing program and the PC this becomes very easy. The airplane photos I have had nothing near if of known size so by fooling with the picture of another object I place it near the plane and interpolted points to obtain the size of the real one. Reduced them to a 1:72 scale and drew the plans......once I move on I´ll show you some pics.

Here is the SM-71

[Heinz]

lovely work there.......
with the plans do you buy them or just search them up on the net?

And if they are not in say 1;72 scale do you have a formula or conversion that makes them to say 1;72 from 1;32


cheers

[Wurger]

Hi Gerar,
It seems I haven't read you there for ages.
But as I can see you have benn working very hard.The model looks great.What are its main dimensions?