WAK Curtiss P-6E Hawk 1/33

[Yu Gyokubun]

Thanks everyone

Couldn't resist playing with paper animals again because my grandsons and I enjoy playing with them lately.

Building this kit takes longer time than I expected due to modest instruction that require builders to figure out how to make certain parts that are not shown in it. But, I don't blame the designer, on the contrary, it provides hours of enjoyment for me and will also work to prevent from getting dementia that I'm so worried.

[Don Boose]

Your careful, skilled, and systematic work is paying off.

The methodology you used to insure a strong seating for the landing gear support wire is essentially the same as that I used to use in stick and tissue flying models.

I like the critters.

Don

[Royaloakmin]

Ah, the old tweezers trick.

[Yu Gyokubun]

Don-sama

I am very glad to know that you were a fan of stick and tissue flying models.
I also was a great fan of it nearly 40 years ago. Making scale model airplanes fly written by Mr. William F. McCombs was my bible then. Having read his book my airplanes suddenly started flying well so some of them has gone away getting on the updraft right in front of fellow enthusiastic modelers that made me proud and sad at the same time.

Thank you for stirring up a reminiscence


Fred-san

Oops, you found my ace in the hole I have been hiding up my sleeve

[smithdr]

Wonderful job! I too see the ol' wire landing gear trick from my Peanut scale free flight models. Looks great!


Dan

[Yu Gyokubun]

Thank you, Dan for your kind words.

It’s nice to know that some of members here were stick and tissue air plane fan.

A little bit reminiscence.
Attached first photo shows some of FFS rubber powered planes I have built nearly 40 years ago.

The most successful one was Piper Cub that flew away getting on updraft. Wedell Wiliams racer was a big failure despite all the effort I put in I couldn't adjust it to avoid getting bad dive at all.

Get back to track
Fit of fuselage was good except nose section.
Any support of tail landing gear was not provided in the kit so, I made it from thick card the same way as main landing gear.
After making it inserted it in the last section of the fuselage skin and glued front end to the previous section's former.
Then glued both ends of the skin to the bottom end of this support.
Since tail end former was also not provided in the kit, I made it assuming that the width will be about 3mm at the bottom and about 2.5mm at the top seems to be appropriate.

[Don Boose]

These images are a treat for the eyes!

Your flying models are every bit as outstanding as your paper models and your model railroad.

This P6E Hawk is going to be among the classics of this Forum.

I am very happy to be able to see your work.

Don

[smithdr]

Nice! Fuselage looks neat and clean. Love the FF stuff too!


Dan

[birder]

Very nice work Yu Sama, and cool flyers

[Mike1158]

That fuselage is looking good. I used to have stick and tissue planes but a certain parent gave them away before I could grab them on leaving the army.
"Oh, you haven't done anything with them for ages"!............