| This is where I'll put stuff that really doesn't fit into other categories, or just stuff that I thought was cool. Not really reviews, but just pictures of work. | ||||||||
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| This was interesting. Was part of a lot of small-scale stuff I got on eBay. This is 1/59 scale - a VERY odd scale to say the least. Don't know what it's supposed to go with. Had fun building it, though. From a company called Glencoe. Also have a 1914 Stutz Bearcat (which is why I bid on the lot) and a 1903 Cadillac. All in similar, but not exactly the same scales. Clamshell body, so was a bit of sanding and filling to get the roof smooth. No "glass" in the kit, so used some vac-formed plastic out of some packaging we had laying around. Tinted it yellow to match a car I saw once - odd, but gives it a nice contrast to the black. Added the mesh for the grill and put metal foil on the running boards and radiator. Pretty quick build. Took about three days of off-and-on work, including the time for the paint to cure. It's cute, anyway. :-) |
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| OK, it's not a car. But I have a passion for tiny models, and this was exceptionally tiny. It's a 1/160 scale Fokker DR.1 (aka the Red Baron).
It's made entirely out of photoetched brass and white metal. And, yeah, that's a quarter it's sitting on (for our folks on the continent, the coin is about 2.5 cm). It's built from one fret of PE, about a dozen parts. Mainly folding and bending (under a magnifying glass, as my eyes are NOT what they used to be). It goes together very quickly, though. Took me about three hours, including paint drying time. From a company called AeroBase, they have a whole series of models in this scale. I got this from HLJ, and have actually ordered a couple more. Figure if I get five it'll make a nice "collection" for the next IPMS contest. :-) |
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| OK, another teeny-tiny airplane. Also in 1/160 scale, in the same series as the Fokker above. This is the Spirit of St. Louis, only done in nickel instead of brass. A lot harder to work with, but very pretty when done. Yeah, that's a quarter! :-)
This particular model has about a dozen parts. Looks like more, doesn't it? But you bend the PE in such a way so it makes up more than one surface. The back half of the fuselage, for example, is one piece, bent square. The slats in the wing are not seperate, but rather bent to give that appearance. I left this one in bare metal, because I thought it looked better that way. Now I'm waiting for my Kitty Hawk flyer, in the same scale! Then two more and I have my "collection!" :-) |
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