Pulp Plane Library

[shadowbeast]

Dunno if it's been mentioned upthread, but there are paper kits available (eg: https://www.ecardmodels.com/index.php/1-48-d-h-89-dragon-rapide-g-akny.html  ) for the clever of hand.  I assume it could be printed to whatever size desired?

Be sure to only scale downwards, for although that doesn't seem to have bitmapped texturing, it may not be printable as a vectored image; plus you will also run afoul of the square/cube law.

[shadowbeast]

one man's junk pile is another man's yard art.   

Actually, there is a marked difference between yard art and fly-tipping, as Roadkill shows us often (as often as they show us that people just can't seem to distinguish between the two...)

[shadowbeast]

Wreck inspiration.

To boot, this wreck was actually a prop in a two-fisted tale made in 1983 (Sky Pirates).




https://thoughtengine.deviantart.com/gallery/57242938/Air

[d phipps]

I've been working on a couple new planes recently. Here's a WIP photo...




More to come......

[pistolpete]

Dave - looks great so far, almost playable as is.  Is it a lit or another of your 3d printer masterpieces?

[FramFramson]

1:56 scale or so? Hard to tell from the angle.

[Duke Donald]

I like the look of this. I could well buy it if you made available.

[secharles]

this thread has wings!

has anyone replaced flat fuselage panels with corrugated (like on the Ford Tri-motor pg #1)?

to me, the material screams "pulp".

[tin shed gamer]

Yep.
It's not difficult. You can easily cut replacement pannels for flat areas. Personally I'm lazy and prefer short cuts. Thin layer of clay on the wing pannels and corrugated plastic used as a stamp mould.
Saves no end of time.

Mark.

[warrenpeace]

Lockheed Vega 5C, circa 1932, diecast coin bank.

[warrenpeace]

Lockheed Orion 9, circa 1931, diecast coin bank.

[warrenpeace]

Buhl Whirlwind, circa 1929, diecast coin bank.

[FramFramson]

How do figures look next to them? Got any comparison shots?

[d phipps]

Nice looking plane. 

[warrenpeace]

How do figures look next to them? Got any comparison shots?

No comparison shots because my figures are in storage. These are pretty similar in size to the ones I posted with figures in this thread a little more than a year ago. These diecast coin banks are all over the place in scale, since they seem to have been made to fit a standard sized box. They typically have a wingspan of about 12 inches, plus or minus an inch, and a fuselage length of about 8 inches, plus or minus an inch. So the medium sized planes come out closest in scale with 28mm figures, with some small monoplanes being too big to scale well with 28mm, and something like a Ford Tri-motor being too small to scale well with 28mm.

Among this lot of 3, the two Lockheed planes are from the Spec Cast Liberty Classics line, I believe, from the early 1990's. Spec Cast come in a smaller box than the typical ERTL. The Orion looks the smallest in scale, but not much smaller than the Vega, perhaps the same scale. The Buhl Whirlwind is an ERTL, and is larger in scale. I wouldn't park them next to each other on the same airfield. I sometimes measure these planes and calculate the scale by comparing them to the historical plane's dimensions. Haven't had a chance to do that with this lot yet.