**** DONE: 1/24 Spitfire Mk.Vb Floatplane – Home Country Modern Aircraft/Spitfire GB

[Vic Balshaw]

Looking great Charles and glad you're using a form of silk, I seem to recall and this was in the early 60s using a new form of very fin silk or nylon mix, it was dirt cheap and came in some amazing colours. After a few coats of dope it became as hard as rock.

 

[meatloaf109]

This takes me back, I built a Fokker D-VIII "Flying Razor" about 30 years ago...
Maybe time to build another...?
Couldn't match your skill, however!

 

[javlin]

This is sharp Charles and looking good by the way Cheers

 

[ccheese]

Man this is taking me back nearly 60 years.................. who said that?????
Can't remember the last stick and paper plane I built. Makes me want to do one.
In my next life I think.

Thanks, Fellas....

Bill... I am ten years older than you. Been building these balsa/tissue jobs since I was 8 or 10. I remember the "Art Chester Racer" that was my first build.... the fuselage had two ribs ! I enjoy balsa much more than scale plastic.

Working on the float today....

Charles

 

[pbfoot]

Thanks, Fellas....

Bill... I am ten years older than you. Been building these balsa/tissue jobs since I was 8 or 10. I remember the "Art Chester Racer" that was my first build.... the fuselage had two ribs ! I enjoy balsa much more than scale plastic.

Working on the float today....

Charles

IMHO a higher skill level

 

[ccheese]

Have to cut and shape a four bladed prop for the Mk-Vb Floatplane. Does anyone have a good pic of the Spit prop blade ??

Charles

 

[Wurger]

Check your e-mail box Pal.

 

[ccheese]

Been working on one of the floats all day, and have it finished, except for the nose-block and tail-block. Have the second float pinned down as we speak.

Got a great idea for the pylons.... going to make them from 1/2" balsa (two 1/4" thick pieces with the grain going 90 degrees to each other, like plywood, glued together). Tongue at the top and bottom to fit into grooves in the float and wing, rounded on the leading edge and tapered on the trailing. Actually dreamed about this the other night !

In the 3rd pic down, if you look just a little below dead center, you can see the groove for the pylon to fit into.

Coming along smartly.....

Charles

 

[Wurger]

Looking very good Pal.

 

[rochie]

looks great Charles

 

[meatloaf109]

Young men dream of poontang, old men dream of pontoons...
Go figure!

 

[vikingBerserker]

Awesome job so far!

 

[Airframes]

Excellent work Charles! I've found a colour profile which might help you later, but I'm trying to figure out how to post it!
I've made a PDF of a page from a PDF of the Mushroom book, but can't seem to get it into the right format for posting - I'll figure it out and post it eventually!

 

[Crimea_River]

Save the scan as a jpeg Terry. I don't think pdf's will post as pictures.

Good work so far Charles.

 

[woody]

Looking good Charles.

 

[Airframes]

I've done it before Andy, but this time, even though the image is in the 'My Pictures' files, I can't locate it when I use the forum's upload system - strange. No problem though, I'll do it a different way tomorrow, when I'm more awake!

 

[Wayne Little]

Good work Charles...

 

[ccheese]

Terry: looking forward to the pic's. If worse comes to worse email them to me as pdf's.

Thanks for the kind words, Guys. Going to work on making up the nose-blocks today. Have block balsa 1.5" X 1.5" X 1", and will get them glued to the nose of the floats. Just have to work out a small problem.

Charles

 

[Wurger]

Terry , a PDF file can be attached here in the same way you attach JPG pics.. The max filesize of a such one is 50MB. If you want to know all allowed filetypes for uploading here just click the Manage Attachments button and then the small blue icon with the question mark in there at the right top corner of the Manage Attachments window.

 

[A4K]

Fantastic work Charles!

Would agree with you re the wood vs plastic too. Loving the HMS Halifax I'm doing at the moment, all the wood and most of the brasswork having to be cut and shaped by hand. Very rewarding!