Underlord
I pronounce them Dee-kal and Tam-eye-ah.
- Joined
- May 19, 2011
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I've been building kits for friends to get my skill level up. Mostly I build SciFi, but I have a friend who owns his own plane. I decided to build him a model of it.
Here's the actual plane:
Photo Courtesy of FlightAware.com
I've got a bunch more reference photos for my build, but basically it's a newer version of the 1950's C180 that Monagram made. I found a similar build here...
U-17 (Monogram - Cessna 180 conversion - 1/41
The U17 isn't exactly the same as my friends plane, but many of the same modifications to the kit are neccesary. In addition to adding the rear window, I'll be replacing the prop with a scratch built tri-prop. I'll also be adding some rigging lines, antenea, and foot steps, and perhaps the break lines.
I started with the windows, then put the doors on and found they fit very badly, so I'm filling in the gap and re-scribing them.
I then started the work on the nose. Here is where some additional changes between the U-17 and my friend's C180 come into play. I'm going to have to modify quite a bit and add the forward headlights and grill work.
Sorry for the bad picture of the nose, I'll try and take better ones during my next session.
Any interest in seeing the rest of this?
Here's the actual plane:
Photo Courtesy of FlightAware.com
I've got a bunch more reference photos for my build, but basically it's a newer version of the 1950's C180 that Monagram made. I found a similar build here...
U-17 (Monogram - Cessna 180 conversion - 1/41
The U17 isn't exactly the same as my friends plane, but many of the same modifications to the kit are neccesary. In addition to adding the rear window, I'll be replacing the prop with a scratch built tri-prop. I'll also be adding some rigging lines, antenea, and foot steps, and perhaps the break lines.
I started with the windows, then put the doors on and found they fit very badly, so I'm filling in the gap and re-scribing them.
I then started the work on the nose. Here is where some additional changes between the U-17 and my friend's C180 come into play. I'm going to have to modify quite a bit and add the forward headlights and grill work.
Sorry for the bad picture of the nose, I'll try and take better ones during my next session.
Any interest in seeing the rest of this?