Pulp Plane Library

[Amalric]

1936 Keystone Loening






This is a diecast I got from ebay for $15, S&H included
Scale pics show a 1" grid and minis by Copplestone, Pulp Figures, and Artizan.







I intend to convert this into a monowing and paint it up, but its playable in the meantime.
The diecasts come painted or brushed metal like this one.
This is a Chevron one.
It comes in Texaco colors and at least one other, so good hunting.

[FramFramson]

Wow, damn near perfectly scaled.

[Mad Lord Snapcase]

That's a nice looking plane. I wonder what the New York Police used it for?

[Mad Lord Snapcase]

For all you Lucky folks who got Gotha's, remember to paint it Red!

I was thinking of this lozenge pattern (although painting it looks like a nightmare!) but red is impressive, the Red Bomber?

[Valerik]

I was thinking of this lozenge pattern (although painting it looks like a nightmare!) but red is impressive, the Red Bomber? 

EVERYBODY knows RED makes 'em look bigger...

YMMV

Valerik
Professor of Preposterous Physics
Adjunct Accredited Aerodynamatician
Dayton Institute of Applied Aeronautical Absurdity

[Peter@BattleScape]

Found a new one that has that lovely pulpy look about it...must add one to the airfleet:




Gotha GO P60.A1

The crew were to fly it prone in the nose section. Like doing the Luge in the air.

Pete

[Mad Lord Snapcase]

Some more ideas here...

Two German planes, the FW-42 Ente and the Triebflugel and a Russian, the KA-17. I have found a kit of the Triebflugel in 1/48 but it's rather expensive!

[Peter@BattleScape]

MUST HAVE Russian KA17 3 of them at least.....

Pete

[Mad Lord Snapcase]

MUST HAVE Russian KA17 3 of them at least.....

Pete

What would the wing span of the KA-17 be in 1/48?  

I really want the Triebflugel but the kits I have found so far in the UK are over £60!

[Mad Lord Snapcase]

I was going through some old photos I took at Duxford in 2005 and came across these. They may be of some interest in this thread?



Focke-Achgelis
FA 330 Autogiro

Single-seat autogiro used by observers on German submarines in the Second World War.

This simple single-seat gyro kite was designed in 1942 to provide a means of increasing the view of observers on U-Boats. Some 200 of them were built.

The machine could be quickly assembled or dismantled and stowed through a U-Boat hatch. It was launched from the deck of a U-Boat on the surface by being tilted backwards once the unpowered rotor was running. It would stay aloft at a minimum of 17mph (27.2km) and towed on the 500 foot (152m) long cable would maintain an altitude of nearly 400 feet (122m). From it an observer could see 25 miles (40km), as opposed to only 5 miles (8km) from the U-Boat deck. In a normal descent the autogiro was winched back in, but the pilot could, in an emergency, release the rotor and parachute down. Two to three crew members of each submarine equipped with the Fa 330 are thought to have been trained to use it.

Little is known of actual operations by the Fa 330, also called Bachstelze (Water Wagtail). It was however an unpopular machine because in an emergency the U-Boat had either to delay it’s dive to pick up the pilot of the autogiro or dive and hope to rescue him later.

The Fa 330 is 14 feet 6 inches long, has a rotor diameter of 24 feet and weighs approximately 180lb.

[northtroll]

I have a Keystone Amphibian in green with some Logo or another on it. It was a bank, originally, but it is now my pulp plane for explorers and so forth. those autogyros look cool, but a pilot friend of mine said he'd never touch one as he didn't trust them! Oh well this is the pulps so of course it will work!

[FramFramson]

At the risk of cross-posting, I think I might ask the same question here that I asked in the workbench:

For my next scenario, I am going to require a crashed airship. Unfortunately, while Pulp may be Pulp, I don't foresee this scenery element seeing a lot of re-use (in fact this is already bothering me, because the damned thing is just going to sit in my terrain boxes forever afterwards - I'm going to try and keep the size small) but there really is nothing to substitute for an airship wreck.

So I banged together a few ideas to do it cheaply. A quick trip to the dollar store and $10 spent has given me almost everything I need. However, there's one thing I can't get: Engines for the nacelles.

I need a couple of 1:48 radial engines. Not a whole plane - just two engines and propellers. Or even engines from a 1:72 kit which was a larger plane. Even one engine might do in a pinch if that's all I can get (it IS a wreck after all).

Does anyone know where I might get some? Or even if someone has some bits they could send my way. They need to be cheap though it's perfectly okay if the detail is crappy. They just need to generally look like radial engines.

Maybe one of you chaps have some spares among all those model kits?

I was thinking about buying a model just to smash it up, but I actually decided not to - these things are actually way more useful intact as planes. Those I can use in many scenarios. So I'm really loath to destroy a kit just for the engines. Plus kits that would yield multiple such engines will run me $25-$40 or more in the hobby shops here and surely I can do better than that. I wouldn't ask anyone to break up a kit that's currently intact, but maybe if a kit came with an extra or something.

Maybe there's a way I could make some by hand? Engines are such fiddly things with a particular look.

Any suggestions would be appreciated!  

[Valerik]

So I banged together a few ideas to do it cheaply. A quick trip to the dollar store and $10 spent has given me almost everything I need. However, there's one thing I can't get: Engines for the nacelles.

I need a couple of 1:48 radial engines. Not a whole plane - just two engines and propellers.

Consider buying just engine sprues from the manufacturer:



Most will sell single sprues by mail, ask on aero-modelling fora for sprue #s & contacts.


Look in the dollar stores & sales bins for Disney PLANES toys.  Some are more 'plane -like, others more toy-ish.
There are several quite suitable for such cannibalization, in various sizes, & styles.


The inline engine ones may be more credible.  Easy enough to rig juicy big external exhausts too.

For extra Pulpy consider doing back to back inlines, pushame-pullayou style:




 



quite the spiffy Italianate Russo-German Brittanic aeronautical tomfoolery.

YMMV

Valerik
Professor of Preposterous Physics
Adjunct Accredited Aerodynamatician
Dayton Institute of Applied Aeronautical Absurdity

[Peter@BattleScape]

Fram

I have a couple of JU52 and Savoia Marchetti SM79 engines laying around...infact they are in a box next to my desk.  They are 1/72 but should look the part, PM your details and I will bang them in the post when I get my little girl back from the hospital tomorrow.

Pete

[FramFramson]

Wow! Fantastic!

As long as you're not cannibalizing one of your own models where you planned to use the engines, I'm happy to accept.

PM sent.