1/24 rotachute

[ermeio]

Looks great

 

after a year or so I'm able to start a new project and a large scale one:

 

Large scale, Little model: an 1:24 rotachute:

 

I hope to rush it and finish it for Scalemodelworld

 

 

I have not a digital camera, so the only way to show it was to scan it: it is not a great idea, but You should see something, I hope:

 

just the fuselage is completed, in plasticard

[ChrisS]

:Posting image for Ermieo:

[P-40]

What does the real plane look like??? Never heard of it...

[ermeio]

Well, I'm not able to post images on this site (I messed up enough last night), but if You like you can see a full color photo of a preserved rotachute following this link:

 

http://www.avnet.co.uk/melmorrisjones/gyro12.htm

 

to know more about the type:

 

http://www.unrealaircraft.com/qb_rotachute.php

http://avia.russian.ee/vertigo/hafner_rotachute-r.html

 

I fell in love with the type since in the seventies I saw an article in the series on the RAF camo in Airfix Magazine: I decided I had to scratchbuilt one, but more than twenty years have passed before I started the project: I've lost the photocopies of thet article in the pile of disorder after my moves, but now I have two articles (also them nearly lost...) that appeared on aeroplane monthly and the photos I searched on the net.

The model is really small, also in 1/24 (it's the dimensions of my daughter's hand, and she's 3years old), the version is the markIII, since the markI wes even smaller

 

I used plasticard throughout, without vacuforming, just cut glue sand

 

I hope to finish it soon, even if I started 4 other projects in 3 days

[ermeio]

Hello, here are some pics of the finished thing

[Erwin]

Hi Ermeio,

 

Glad the tips helped you to post pictures.

 

Nice build on an unknown flying machine.