Douglas DC-4 / C-54 for Paper Trade: Berlin Airlift.

[Diderick A. den Bakker]

More about the digital three-view-plan.

#8: shows a screen view of Cor creating the basic 2D computer drawing. Every vertical or horizontal auxiliary line has been added to check measurements against drawings, photographs etc.
#9: Every little helps: side views of various engines, both inboard and outboard. More about this in the next installment.
#10: the final digital three-view-plan. You will now have an idea of how much time goes into this preparatory work – well worth it, because it is the basis for a good (or excellent!) model.

[MacSongLi]

Very detailed and tedious. Very nice.


Gary

[Diderick A. den Bakker]

MacSongLi:
tedious means 'terribly boring'. I hope you did not mean that?!

[rickstef]

he probably meant fastidious

[rjccjr]

Hi;

Before concentrating on ships, I was involved with aircraft for decades. Here are some copies from my files. The first set is from "Aircraft of The Fighting Powers, which dates back to shortly after World War Two. The second is from Airfix Magazine and dates back to sometime in the 1970's or 80's. Both are in 1/72 and scale. The drawings are not up to modern presentation, but measure out pretty accurately. Mr Hall has passed away, and the other books are probably well out of publication, but they may be very useful to you. I have absolutely no idea whether there are any copy right limits after all these years.

Regards, rjccjr

[Diderick A. den Bakker]

RJC: all information is more than welcome, but designer Cor has probably proceeded beyond this point by now. However, as I wrote a few days ago:another long term idea (mind: not a plan - yet) is the Boeing B-377 Stratocruiser... .
So if you, or anyone, has information on this, please pm me, or send (Wetransfer) direct to me:da(dot)denbakker(at)planet.nl/

[Petestein]

Originally Posted by Diderick A. den Bakker

RJC: all information is more than welcome, but designer Cor has probably proceeded beyond this point by now. However, as I wrote a few days ago:another long term idea (mind: not a plan - yet) is the Boeing B-377 Stratocruiser... .
So if you, or anyone, has information on this, please pm me, or send (Wetransfer) direct to me:da(dot)denbakker(at)planet.nl/

Let's hope the Stratocruiser is not a very long term project. I remember my dad told me he went to Japan in one of this fantastic aircraft way back on the early fifties. Pan American was the main airline using this aircraft. I also recall that BOAC used it. It can also be designed as the military tanker I think it was KC97.

[sgoti]

Originally Posted by Petestein

Let's hope the Stratocruiser is not a very long term project. I remember my dad told me he went to Japan in one of this fantastic aircraft way back on the early fifties. Pan American was the main airline using this aircraft. I also recall that BOAC used it. It can also be designed as the military tanker I think it was KC97.

Let's not forget the C-97 freighter, and the Guppy variants (perhaps modified too much to be easy variants of a 377 model...)

[Diderick A. den Bakker]

I have looked around on Google images for the B-377 Stratocruiser - nothing. Can anyone help by finding a good three-view- plan, with measurements and sections? That would be a start...

[Petestein]

Originally Posted by Diderick A. den Bakker

I have looked around on Google images for the B-377 Stratocruiser - nothing. Can anyone help by finding a good three-view- plan, with measurements and sections? That would be a start...

There is a very nice plastic Stratocruiser made by a Korean company called Academy. It is very acurate and perhaps Mr. Cor can use it as basis while a nice three view drawing appears. I have also heard that the German card model printer, JFS Schreiber, printed this model some few decades ago. Have you tried tp contact them?