Any Modelers On Here?

[Geezy Rider]

Another thread about model ships got me to wondering if there were other modelers around here. If so, show off your work.

Like a lot of guys, when I was a kid, I built model airplanes. Plastic mostly.
I built some WWII planes but my main focus was on WWI aircraft.
There’s just something about those primitive planes, and the men that flew them, that was special.
It was a heroic, bold, adventurous time for both man and machine.

This is one of my planes.
The Albatros D. II


I always considered this to be the best looking fighter of the war. Unfortunately it was not the best performer.
This was one of many fighters that Manfred Albrecht von Richthofen, aka The Red Baron, flew to become the leading ace of WWI.
This particular model is made of balsa wood and paper. I don’t use kits. I go online and find the blueprints for what I want to build. Then I have the prints size to the wing span I want to build too. Custom cut the balsa wood to the blueprint specifications and put it together.


I also make the wheels and engine from scratch. They are made from a high density foam that is very light. I carve and sand the individual pieces and then assemble.
This a reasonable facsimile of the Mercedes engine that was in this fighter. I was able to find the blueprints on line for this engine.

Behind the engine are the twin Spandau machine guns also made the same way.
This plane was built for rubber band flight. I never could get her trimmed out well enough to fly the way I wanted her to so I made her into a static display.






Thanks for looking. I’ll post more at a later date but I’d like to see if any else can show off some work.

[Gunnyart]

I was big into RC Airplanes for a couple decades. Took the last decade off but just started a new build. Modified Balsa USA Stick 40 Plus.
Never had the patience for little stuff like your Albatros Nice job.

[Hogmauler]

Bad azz! I built a Fletcher class destroyer several years back. My dad was transferred onto a Fletcher after the USS Oklahoma was capsized in Pearl Harbor. Want to get back into it and build a Neveda class battleship which is what the Oklahoma was. One of the brothers posted a site called hobbylinc on here. Turned out to be a great site as well.

[Geezy Rider]

Bad azz! I built a Fletcher class destroyer several years back. My dad was transferred onto a Fletcher after the USS Oklahoma was capsized in Pearl Harbor. Want to get back into it and build a Neveda class battleship which is what the Oklahoma was. One of the brothers posted a site called hobbylinc on here. Turned out to be a great site as well.

That’s cool. It was your thread that gave me the idea to post this tread.

[Geezy Rider]

I was big into RC Airplanes for a couple decades. Took the last decade off but just started a new build. Modified Balsa USA Stick 40 Plus.
Never had the patience for little stuff like your Albatros Nice job.

Post up the build, I’d like to see it.
That D.II is a 13 inch wing span. I’ve built several indoor rubber band fliers and generally keep them around 13 inches.
I’ve got a couple of RC’s in the works. I’ll show them off later.

[oneeye]

Great work, Geezy!

I built a ton of plastic model cars in my youth but nothing since then.

[Bowtech38]

Did a lot of cars and hotrods as a kid. And 1/24 scale slot cars built from scratch.

[Gunnyart]

Post up the build, I’d like to see it.
That D.II is a 13 inch wing span. I’ve built several indoor rubber band fliers and generally keep them around 13 inches.
I’ve got a couple of RC’s in the works. I’ll show them off later.

Here is the current plane in the works. I built the wing without dihedral and made it a bolt on rather than rubber banded on. It'll have dual aileron servo's so I can do flap mixing. Other than that pretty much stock.

[Gunnyart]

I sold off all my old planes except this Fokker D.VII
I used to fly it on a Saito .91 four stroke but now it's just a static display.
Really a handful as it was built to scale and not for good flight characteristics.

[Anvilheadtexas]

Cool thread. I didn’t want to jump into the other thread since it was a shipbuilders thread. Back in 2018 I discovered a small box of models that I had in the closet for over 25 years and decided to build one tank for old times. I got sucked back into it and I’m glad I did because it was something to do during Covid. I build mostly 135 scale Armor from WW I and WW II. Here are a few. I’ve been entering contests although there wasn’t a whole lot during Covid. It was just a big contest in Houston back in May.

[Gunnyart]

Wow great paint work

[jerp]

Awesome work fellas. My dad was on an escort class carrier at the tail end of WWII and when I was a kid we built a model of his ship - the Badoeng Strait - and several of the planes they carried. I still remember the smell of the “dope” we put on the paper wings. I may have to get back into it - I am now inspired

[Geezy Rider]

Here is the current plane in the works. I built the wing without dihedral and made it a bolt on rather than rubber banded on. It'll have dual aileron servo's so I can do flap mixing. Other than that pretty much stock.

That’s nice. Look forward to seeing it finished.

[Geezy Rider]

I sold off all my old planes except this Fokker D.VII
I used to fly it on a Saito .91 four stroke but now it's just a static display.
Really a handful as it was built to scale and not for good flight characteristics.

That is beautiful. That was a great fighter in its day.
I’m working on a D. VIII right now but I’ve got so many projects in the works I’m finding it hard to squeeze it in.

[Geezy Rider]

Cool thread. I didn’t want to jump into the other thread since it was a shipbuilders thread. Back in 2018 I discovered a small box of models that I had in the closet for over 25 years and decided to build one tank for old times. I got sucked back into it and I’m glad I did because it was something to do during Covid. I build mostly 135 scale Armor from WW I and WW II. Here are a few. I’ve been entering contests although there wasn’t a whole lot during Covid. It was just a big contest in Houston back in May.

Works of art my friend.

My father was a tanker with the 9th Armored Division during WWII. He commanded a Sherman M4 105.
I’ve never built a tank before but I hope to build one to duplicate his some day. It won’t look near as good as yours though.
Mad skills sir.