old stuff

[Michael Mash]

You mention: "The model has held up pretty well over the years. Since then quite a few sailing ship models have been built and a great deal has been learned."

Question: Did you mean that you have built quite a few "wooden" sail ship models?
It looks to me like your Black Prince has held up very well. Nice work.

Mike

[Don Boose]

Due to family holiday activities, I missed your last three posts in this thread, Ray.

I very much enjoyed reading the back story and seeing the images of your workshop. The Nakajima G8N Renzan loosely nestled in a box with other models [178/3r] caught my eye in particular.

I am envious of your productivity, skill, and talent, as well as the way you have maintained your work and display space. My own basement is rather a cobwebbed disaster and most of my models are still in their boxes.

Black Prince is a wonderful model!

Many thanks for sharing all this with us.

Don

[rjccjr]

Hi All;

This is evidently one of Yoavs early designs. It was built around 2013. Does eleven years count as old stuff? Who cares. The model is a very poor build of a French S. O. 4050 Vautour IIA. That's because the tremors were just getting a hold and I had no idea of what was happening. It was a very frustrating experience, but it got built and still exists. The build may be poor, but the kit was well designed if not quite up to the standards of later models.

The Vautour was first encountered as a Heller kit around 1957 or 1958, when I was in the teens. It was a handsome machine. The kit cost ninety eight cents at that time and was a very tough build for not so good results. The prices asked for the same kit today are outrageous. This card kit is way superior to that model.

Photo 1r is a frontal view. The stabilizer is askew, but reparable. The fillets around the engines could be way better, but not by yours truly. Photo2r is an over head shot, which looks somewhat better. Photo 3r is from the side and you can see that, if properly built conveys an accurate fuselage. Photo 4r is from the rear. You can see the accuracy of the camouflage and markings. The outrigger gear below the nacelle has buckled from handling, but could be repaired. Photo 5r is a nose view showing the main gear details. The port side outrigger is intact. Photo 6r shows the bottom view. The stabilizer has been repaired and the out riggers straightened out. The outrigger wells had to be very shallow to avoid the engines. The shading of the light gray underside shows the texture near the control surfaces as well as weathering of the airframe. That effect would be quite a challenge for an airbrush on a plastic model.

Usually a copy of a downloaded kit is kept in the computer so a spare can be printed in case parts get messed up. But, alas it was not the case with this model. Never the less this is a handsome replica of an early successful ground attack machine, which survived in active Israeli service until the early 1970s.

Regards, rjccjr

[rjccjr]

Hi All;

To respond to a question that Mike asked I went looking around in some old photographs. There are a lot of them. Here are two. Haven't found a picture of the completed America. There are photos of a Constitution around somewhere, but they haven't shown up. The Susquehanna, which was hiding under the Princeton project, was built around 2003 and would be a subject for a very long thread. There are lots of photos of that build.

Regards, rjccjr