While at the Houston Roundhouse train shop yesterday evening, I was thumbing through some old Model Railroading magazines, and came across an article and photos of a guy that had a model airplane club on his HO layout. It had a club building, landing strip, plane about to take off with a guy that had a control box in his hands and a couple of guys off to one side working on a plane. Not a bad idea to fill in a spot where there isn’t anything, and not all that expensive or trouble to do either.
Hey there Billba. I’ve built a couple of R/C planes - but for static display only. As a matter of fact they’re hanging up out in my train room. One is a WW I Spad and the other is the Red Baron’s tri-wing. I built the Spad from scratch and the other from a kit.
I doubt I’ll ever build another one, but I’ve always really liked old planes like that.
Tracklayer,
I’ve got a Guillow Fokker D7 that I’ve been looking at building for several years. I picked it up at the store at the Air Force museum in Dayton, Ohio. I know why the old timers called these things “kites”.
I would like to see some old aircraft available in 1/87th scale instead of 1/72nd. Although, that wouldn’t help N scalers much.
Billba, I bet I’ve built the Red Baron’s plane about five times in various scales over the years. Each time I’ve built it it was bigger than the one before it… If I ever build another one it’ll be life size…
i built a Piper Cub kit with a 60" wing span when I was a kid. When moving from one house to another it took flight out the back of a moving trailor and was run over by a truck. It’s one and only flight.