Migrant's stringy-things: added DH Dragon Rapide (1 Viewer)

[Crimea_River]

Fantastic, Mike!

 

[fubar57]

Beauty. Like Larry I have one in the stash but as yet haven't found a good wiring diagram though I do have many photos

 

[Migrant]

Thanks guys

 

[Gnomey]

Lovely work!

 

[Migrant]

Thanks for the kind words!

Another addition to the biplane collection is Heller's old 1/72 DH Dragon Rapide kit. (Actually it's a re-pop by Tasman, and the moulds have suffered somewhat since the original 70s tooling.) This represents a flying advertising hoarding from the early 50s, which utilised neon lettering to advertise things like cigarettes or, in this case, a movie. The Tasman kit included the framing/lettering as 3D-printed parts which were a tad over-sized but look OK. They also supplied glow-in-the-dark powder for the neon letters (honest!) but I couldn't get the stuff to work... As far as the model's concerned I re-scribed some panels on the engine, re-glazed the windows and rigged it with UVDR thread.

 

[fubar57]

Outstanding Mike, especially the rigging. I keep threatening to buy that thread

 

[Wurger]

 

[Crimea_River]

Very nice Mike.

 

[Gnomey]

Excellent work!

 

[Airframes]

Nice !

 

[dollar19]

Mike it took me awhile to scroll through all 8 pages, I had to keep going to clean myself up. Phenomenal modeling is all I can say!
Absolutely phenomenal!!

 

[Migrant]

Thanks a lot guys!

 

[Papa Tango Whiskey]

Real nice, Mike