Latécoère 26 Aéropostale under spring'sun

[MonsieurE]

Hi i would like to share with you few sunny pics of my latest build Latécoère 26 mailplane from the 30'. Most of the aircraft were operated mainly on North and West African mail routes, two aircraft were sold to aeroposta Argentina.
Famous french pilot of the aéropostale compagnie as Mermoz, St Exupery, Guillaumet flew on this aircaft

the model
It was 1/100 scale reduction but approx 13,5cm lenght and 19 cm wingspan instead of 12,2cm and 17,4 wingspan.....
i maybe get an issue with my printer or when i design it but proportion seems good
It is edge to edge construction method, no tabs, glue with white pva glue
It have no internal stucture(except for the wing) or metal wire strenght landing gear tip, but instead i used red acrylic paint who strenght them enough :

[Jan Kytop]

Interesting and beautiful model , congratulations.

[cardist]

Lovely, clean build of a very interesting machine. This would look equally good in a larger scale. Thanks for sharing.

Bernie

[rockpaperscissor]

Very nice.

[MonsieurE]

Thanks (merci)Jan,Cardist and Rockpaperscissor for your kind comment
i have already planned designing another "under shadow" french civilian plane
Maybe Farman maybe Spad maybe Nieuport-delage or maybe but not yet started the close in design Laté25.... will see, will see.....
keep you posted on this mervelous era

[papermodelfan]

Thank you very much M. E. So this is what Le Petit Prince was flying when he went down in the Sahara? (Or maybe the Caudron Simoun?) Now that could be a fictional diorama...