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The EAA Museum Needs Our Help for its Newest Exhibit
A new permanent exhibit at the EAA AirVenture aviation museum will include plastic, wood, and paper scale model aircraft.
Museum Director Alan Westby wants the paper models section to illustrate tools, basic techniques, and examples from WWII to the present. He needs our help to make it happen. The EAA Museum has given us a permanent exhibit space at no cost since 2001, and has helped us to promote our hobby to countless aviation and modeling enthusiasts. (One third of EAA’s 160,000 members are scale aircraft modelers.) The new exhibit offers us an opportunity to showcase our hobby and offers you a chance to put your work on display in one of the nation’s finest and most-visited aviation museums, located in Oshkosh, Wisconsin USA. Some of models for the new exhibit will come from the popular Paper Models Exhibit that I created for the museum in 2001. That means we will need new models for that exhibit, too. Also, for the first time, the museum will display large paper model aircraft that are too big to fit in the display cases. Plans call for mounting them on the museum wall, just out of reach. My GPM E2 Hawkeye and FlyModel C-47 will go there. And I’m working on a GPM B-17 for the exhibit. There will be room for more. Especially needed are a B-25 (any series) and a DH Mosquito, both in 1/33 scale. Alan wants to include, as much as possible, models of full-size aircraft in the museum collection. The existing Paper Models Exhibit includes several of those but we need more. We want to include a mix of 1/33 and smaller scales. I would like to have 10 or 15 new models to add to the exhibits. I need them by February 1, 2010; the new exhibit will open in March. You don’t need to be a master builder. Basic or intermediate skills are enough. I have most of the kits on the list below and I can send them to you if you will build them for the museum. Pick a model from the list and, to avoid duplicating efforts, contact me, David Sakrison, at [email protected]. Or if you've already built one of these models and would like to display it in the museum, contact me. The museum has been generous to us. It needs our help to launch its newest scale model exhibit. Please consider building a model over the holidays for display in Oshkosh. Thank you, --David Here’s the list: Grumman Duck Lockheed Vega Stinson Gullwing Bell 13 Helicopter (MASH type) Beech Staggerwing Curtiss Jenny Cessna 150/152, 172, 182 Curtiss Robin Stinson L-5 Lockheed Vega Ercoupe Pietenpol AirCamper Piper TriPacer Piper Super Cub GeeBee – any model Travel Air Mystery Ship Wedell-Williams race plane DH Chipmunk SNJ or T-6 Texan Flying Flea Pitts Special Sukhoi, Extra, or other modern aerobat Nieuport 17 Sopwith Camel or Sopwith Pup SPAD XIII F4U Corsair Me-109 P-38 (Bong’s “Marge,” if possible) P-40 Flying Tigers P-51 in Tuskegee Airmen markings Ultralight "trike" Any civilian sailplane (1/33 preferred) One or two Rigby paper models (as published during WWII). --End of List--
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All you master modelers here - a call to arms (so to speak) to help further paper models and have them displayed in a public display.
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OOPS! Didn't read the preceeding paragraph, only saw the list. If my PBJ is done by Feb 01, it would be a miracle, but they're welcome to it if it is.
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So I take it there an L-5 there at the EAA museum? Does anyone have some pictures of it?
Ryan
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e-mail sent...
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Same here; email away.
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well, i have a corsair, mosquito, p40, messerchmitt made since many years but all that 1/33 model maly was printed in two picture by page...
here they are : woops, last one is espadon (black & mortimer) sorry Last edited by Jason; 12-09-2009 at 01:00 AM. |
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That's where it belongs...:D
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Mike, I'm flabbergasted! Thank you so much! :D:D:D Cheers, --David
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I already PM'd you David, but I think I can swing a July 01 finish, assuming I don't have to do any more reworks!!
Pressure, oh the pressure..... Mike
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