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Fiddlers Green Curtis Robin
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“Douglas ‘Wrong Way’ Corrigan’s famous Curtiss Robin, NX9243, appeared in public for the first time in more than 30 years at Chino, California on 27 October following its acquisition by the Planes of Fame Air Museum.” 2 & 3 Downloaded Fiddlers Green’s Curtis Robin and printed the FG Corrigan version on letter size card stock. http://www.fiddlersgreen.net/ Accomplished burnishing unprinted side of wing ribs. window and door frames, using a plastic LightTracer with two kleenex layers under parts pages. 4 & 5 Included burnishing the aileron actuators for added interest. 6 & 7 Wire reinforced all struts and propeller. 8 & 9 Prop to engine assembled enabling young hands to spin it. 10 & 11 Wire Reinforced Landing gear assembled referencing snap shots of the Air Museum’s Corrigan display. 12 &13 Model wingspan = 14 1/4 inches 14 15 -END- BP |
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Excellent work.The only other thing I would do is change the engine.This Curtiss has common exhaust manifold much like FW-44,it's a very visible detail.
The History Guy on YT has superbe episode on ‘Wrong Way’ Corrigan (and a whole lot of other good episodes). |
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Fine work, Bob! And very welcome info on your building techniques and procedures.
I have always liked the look of the Curtiss Robin. Built a stick-and-tissue version (Comet?) back in the 50s. Last year, John Glessner (DrLaser) gave me a copy of Corrigan's autobiography that he (John) had picked up at the U.S. Army Heritage and Education Center used book sale during our Paper Modelers at Army Heritage Days event. All this makes me want to build this model! Don |
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Very nice model, i build a Rubber band powered Curtiss Robin when i was child, maybe it's time to try it again but as a card model.
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Beauty of a build, Bob.
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Thank you Bob, what is the scale of the plane?
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Hi Guys,
Thank you for your interest. The wingspan came out to be 11 and 1/4 inches; I'll leave the scale determination to our math wiz members. Started right into printing and building another Fiddlers Green, a T-6, this time on colored card stock. BP |
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OOOOpppppss that is 14 1/4 inches!
Haven't had my morning coffee yet. BP |
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If the wing span is the same as the OX-5, per Wikipedia it is the inverse of 41*12/14.25, between 1/34 and 1/35.
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