Guillow's P-47D-40

[heywooood]

static display using the balsa infill construction method

 

[heywooood]

while under construction...

 

[urumomo]

Welcome Aboard !

Nice , old school stick framing

 

[Rob]

Hey that looks pretty cool. It reminds me of the'90s when I used to build radio controlled airplanes. Back then everything was kits and nitro engines. I just thought it was great getting a box full of balsa wood and making it look like a plane. Here's a picture of my 1.20 stick. That's what I do when I'm not building models. And yes. I built this from a kit

 

[heywooood]

hello fellers! appreciate the welcome, urumomo. The Stick is an aerobatic wonder - Rob, yours looks to have been flown, and landed properly.

I've built up a few of these display models, this is the most recent. The actual P-47C and D is a favorite of mine in all variants.

Here's the Dumas Air Express - another favorite, this time from Lockheed

 

[Rob]

That's a nice looking plane. I am also fairly new into this modeling. It's a lot different now. There is so much cool stuff out to buy. I've been looking at all the models you guys have built and all the detailing you guys have done on everything and I try and mess it all up. And then I light bulb goes off and I buy some fine detail brushes. You guys just might have some competition here. Might take a few years before I can catch up though. I see some mighty fine work out there.

 

[heywooood]

I started building when I was about 10yo - built whatever I could get my hands on for about 2 or 3 years. All plastic kits, cars, planes, armor, didn't matter to me other than I preferred aviation subjects. Then many years later, after my son was born I thought it might be fun to get back into it - hang a couple planes in his room maybe see if he'd take an interest in the hobby - or in aviation as a life course.
How many P-51's do you figure you've built from the first to the most recent? I've lost count..
Revell, Hasegawa, Tamiya, Monogram before the merger, Airfix, Matchbox...Trumpeter, Hobby Boss. Those newer large scale plastic kits are PRICEY right?
So I built off and on over the years since the 1990's. Then about 5 years ago or so I came across a forum where a guy was building these balsa kits using this infilled method - since then it's all I want to do.

 

[heywooood]

next project - Guillow's DC-3

 

[Edbert]

Your work there is literal art!

This thread brings back the memories of 12-year old me who got his mom to go to the hobby shop so I could spend my lawnmowing money.

I'd built maybe 20 plastic airplanes, coated entirely with glue of course. So I bought this gigantic Me109E kit, in a very nice box.

I was dumbfounded to see no plastic (well maybe a bit) but all this wood, as in tree-stuff!

I came to understand, and have many friends who are active RC pilots, but I try hard to not start that hobby as I have a condition where I become obsessive. I spent $10K in 1987-1992 racing electric RC cars. They crashed and broke, but not in the way planes do

 

[heywooood]

I spend a bit of money on these projects - more at times than maybe I should. But this is money spent on a hobby or pastime that helps with my general wellbeing. I think anytime you spend your hard earned money on something you love it's money well spent. When I was a boy about 12, a friend and I would walk to the nearest model shop, about a mile from my house, maybe once or twice a week, just to look through the stacks. Always thinking about which one to buy the next time we had a couple of bucks. Delivering papers, mowing lawns whenever we could. Some of the best days of my life.

 

[heywooood]

the DC-3 is under construction, the dollhouse is coming along, and here's the AMT 1/16 scale '55 Bel Air recently completed..

the car has lights from evan Design..