Pulp Plane Library

[warrenpeace]

Incredible! It finally worked! I was using the insert image tab 2nd from right on 2nd row, but was using the wrong url. I was wrongly using the url that shows up at the top when I selected images from the gallery. On my machine with a right click on the image, I don't get a "view image" option, but do get a "copy image address" option. That worked. A huge thanks to Doug, who helped me work through this both here and in personal messages.

[Doug ex-em4]

We got there...! And well worth the effort, I'd say - great photos...

Doug

[carlos marighela]

Nice! Where's the Junkers from? Colombia used them in it's war against Peru in 1932 and I've long wanted one.*

That would be yet another project..

[Wolf Girl]

Awesome!! 

[pistolpete]

Your planes are great.  And you're not alone on difficulties with posting images; i can't do it from google image "album"  without some trial and error, and never from my phone, which is how i take the majority of my pictures.   I alway use the preview button.

[ivor13]

  Wow! Fantastic stuff!

[tin shed gamer]

Carlos,
Franklin Mint diecast 1/48.
Schreiber-Bogen card model 1/50.
Revell plastic kit 1/72.

It's a plane I was contemplating making my self.

Mark.

[carlos marighela]

Carlos,
Franklin Mint diecast 1/48.
Schreiber-Bogen card model 1/50.
Revell plastic kit 1/72.

It's a plane I was contemplating making my self.

Mark.

Cheers! I've seen the Revell one but wanted something a little grander than 1/72.

[warrenpeace]

Mine is the Franklin Mint 1:48 scale, pre-assembled and pre-painted. Out of production now, I think, but quite a few of these have changed hands on eBay.

Here is a 28 minute film of Aloha Wanderwell's 1930 flight into the River of Death in the Mato Grosso region of Brazil in a Junkers F-13 floatplane. The film of the floatplane take off is from about minute 5 to minute 7. This is a youtube video:

[tin shed gamer]

Thats an interesting clip even more tempted to make one now.

Carlos,
Depending on your budget you might want to sit down when you check out the prices on Franklin Mints Junkers 13's.

This really is a simple scratch build as there's no complex curved surfaces , Its virtually a flying box (from a modelling point of view and no complex rigging ).

Or another option my fit the bill ( or more likely a lessor budget killer).

The 1/72. Oxford diecast De Havilland DH89 Dragon Rapide. It comes in at 20cm wing span and 14.5cm long being a biplane its not going to look too small as its literally 1cm shorter than a 28mm version ( plus is pre made and a shed load of liveries' band new £34 free p&p) its a fair substitute it was literally everywhere used in the Spanish civil war as a bomber as well.

[carlos marighela]

Cool find! That was interesting in spite of the perky narration, mispronunciation and spelling errors.  I liked the snippet of footage with Marshal Rondon, one of the truly heroic figures of Amazonian exploration.

[shadowbeast]

I just ordered this:

and 3 SMER aircraft at HobbyLink Japan. Each less than a thousand yen.
They may, of course, not end up as pulpy planes but in post-apocalyptic, as here:
http://s1.zetaboards.com/Post_Apoc_Wargames/topic/8068539/1/
We shall have to see if I like such huge aircraft on the tabletop, or even what figures I end up with. That seems to be our lot as gamers - deal with a very limited selection of papercraft (or 2 lasercut, that I've heard of, but they're WW2 fighters), hunt all over for something in a scale some company experimented with 50 years ago, or accept that it's either too small or too big.

[FramFramson]

Thats an interesting clip even more tempted to make one now.

Carlos,
Depending on your budget you might want to sit down when you check out the prices on Franklin Mints Junkers 13's.

This really is a simple scratch build as there's no complex curved surfaces , Its virtually a flying box (from a modelling point of view and no complex rigging ).

Or another option my fit the bill ( or more likely a lessor budget killer).

The 1/72. Oxford diecast De Havilland DH89 Dragon Rapide. It comes in at 20cm wing span and 14.5cm long being a biplane its not going to look too small as its literally 1cm shorter than a 28mm version ( plus is pre made and a shed load of liveries' band new £34 free p&p) its a fair substitute it was literally everywhere used in the Spanish civil war as a bomber as well.

D'you have one of those Dragons? I wonder what a figure would look like next to one.

[tin shed gamer]

Afraid not Matt.
It's the solution I came up with,after reading your musings on wether using larger planes in smaller scales would work for 28mm rather than breaking the bank with 1/48 die casts and kits.
I actually started looking For a Percival Q6. ( its one of the plane restorations In the TV series on PBS.) but that's in the a sell a kidney price range.
They mentioned the Dragon in that programme (had the same engines in exactly the same housings but was 40mph slower and had a shorter range)
Short version didn't need to kit bash into a Piper as its Pulp stock in its own right . So I've ordered one.

The logic is similar to your own.
Size in 1/72 is almost identical to a smér 1/48 walrus(which I've got.so I'm pretty sure of a comfortable fit)
Not suggesting  totally the same height,only in wing span and in length.
Only likely to require airframe furniture re scaling (just an hour or so and a bit of clay.)
At worst a new door,and props rescaling or made into spinners.
But the added bonus is the way the wheels are attached. If it does need to be raised slightly to fit in with 28mm figures then its going to be easy to rescale them or drop them down a little without it looking obvious.
If I've time I'll write a thread when I attack it. If not I'll  just add a picture to the library thread,when I've finished swearing at it.
Mark.

[FramFramson]

There's actually an old Dragon Rapide model kit in 1:68 (by FROG - it comes up on ebay occasionally), so I'm interested in seeing how the die cast would look. as there wouldn't be much difference.