I've got plans!

[old man emu]

I was rearranging stuff in my storage shed when I came across a portable filing cabinet I bought in he very distant past. When I opened it to see what it contained, I was pleasantly surprised to find some magazines from the  1980s about radio controlled flying as well as sheets of plans for a number of aircraft from the inter-war years. 

 

I have plans  for:

a 48" Ford Flivver by Derek Woodward through the American Radio Control Modeller

a 58-1'4" Aeronca C1 by Phillip Kent through the English Radio Control Modeller

a 53" CAC Boomerang from  Australian Radio Control Modeller

a 42" DH89 Dragon Rapide from Dumas Aircraft, Kit # 1815

and  a 52" Comper Swift.

 

If I can make them, I'll have a nice little display.

[Carbon Canary]

Sounds like you’ll be busy for quite a while !

[old man emu]

I've got to get busier on full sized building (reno) jobs before I can start playing. However, I'm now looking at a 1/48 scale kit of a CA-113 Boomerang, and also a 1/12 scale kit of a 9 cylinder Wright Cyclone engine.

[Old Koreelah]

My wife’s brother, an ex-aviator, has been building models for fifty years. His aim is a scale replica of every aircraft the RAAF ever flew and he’s almost there. He’ll buy kits of the one aircraft from three different makers and use the best bits of each, then add his own improvements. He uses Superglue and filler to create instrument panels, individual seats and harnesses. I hope that he puts on display soon.

[Marty_d]

My lovely wife bought me a Tamiya 1:48 scale Mk 1 Spitfire for my birthday earlier this year.  Unfortunately I don't have any paints so until I source those, she stays in the box.

 

[old man emu]

Go to your local $2 shop and select your colours from the  Momte Matre range of acrylics. These $2-shop paints are becoming the goto paints for modelers due to the price of the "specialist" paints.

 

I suggest that you watch a couple of Youtube  videos on brushing acrylics. And when you go to get your glue, pick the thin stuff. It makes less mess.

 

Here's a build video to help you along. 

 

 

I ordered a 1/48 scale CA-19 Boomerang from New Zealand this morning. (CA-19 was the photo Recce variant)