1/24 Beaver by Cedar Creek , another one at LSP

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Here is my addition to few Beaver build topics on LSP .

 

Started few months ago, photographed step by step, but only now i find some time to crop/resize and transfer the pics to Photobucket.

 

First, no box, just kit parts, instruction(spartan) (i borrowed AIRFIX 1/72 one for details info), large decal sheet, and, nothing more,

 

 

 

 

 

 

Kit will be upgraded with scratchbuilt interrior, windows and will be painted to looks like this one,

 

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Started with opening the windows,

 

 

 

and front window,

 

 

Vacuformed front window is made from clear acetate foil,

 

 

 

Wing-fuse join extension cause almost imposible to made top fuselage windows, so, they will be painted in gray

 

 

Firewall , rear cockpit wall and floor are made from sheet styrene,

 

 

 

and primed with car plastic primer gray spray paint,

 

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Wings assembled , acrylic putty applied on the wingtips,

 

 

Floats, also assembled,

 

Seats, dashboard and pilot's handle/steering wheel are scratchbuilded,

 

 

 

Windows are made from clear CD case, and airbrushing masking foil is glued , to save it from scratching during the build, glued with epoxy glue,

 

 

Dasboard,seats and steering wheel glued,

 

 

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Wing-Fuselage join is installed,

 

 

Yellow plastic is "Pain in the " to paint it in white, so i primed the wings with automotive acrylic white, hope one 400 ml can will be enough for this model.

 

 

[robertandy]

That is very cool. My wife and I flew to and from Orcas Isand off the coast of Washington state for our anniversary this past summer in a Beaver, very cool. Taking of and landing in a bay!!!

 

Rob

[LSP_Ron]

I luv the Beaver (please keep a straight face) And love flying in it. there is something that can't be described in words taxing in one with the door open listening to the P&W rattle away!! then throttling up until the noise is defining and breaking onto step then into the air.

 

I used to fly on this one once a year on our annually fishing trip with my Brother in law. Sadly since his passing we don't go anymore.

 

 

Yours looks great!!!

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Its paint time, first, white overall, i use Revell paints, semi gloss and gloss white, over the white primed surfaces.

 

 

Then the masking was done, using Oramask masking foil, time consumption job.

 

 

Revell Gloss Red was sprayed over the wing tips, wing stripe and fuselage sides.

 

 

Floats are also masked and red stripe airbrushed,

 

 

Black trim stripes are decals, clear decal film sprayed with gloss black and one coat of clear gloss cote, then cut with sharp No11 blade and applied.

 

 

 

 

Fuselage top windows are decals, gloss black, , supplied with the kit.

 

Wings, landing light on wing leading edge is gloss black decal.

 

 

Black anti skid areas on the floats are Revell matt Dark Gray (anthrazit) .

 

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Few finishing touches, custom printed decals, on Laser printer, red was quite transparent, so, two layers of decals applied,

 

 

Radio antenas, steel wire, and topside windows - black decal supplied with the kit,

 

 

and finished Beaver , Cedar Creek 1/24 scale, few months of work,

 

 

 

 

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And few more pics,

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[LSP_Kevin]

Wow, didn't that turn out lovely! Well done Nenad, well done.

 

Kev

[alaninaustria]

That looks great! reminds me of the Beaver I used to fly on the Fraser river just east of Vancouver! The Beaver is one of the nicest aircraft I ever had the pleasure of flying! Good job!

Cheers

Alan

[Erwin]

A lovely piece of work. Well done job.

[fam43]

Hi aeropoxy,

well done model of an old friend of mine. The beaver was the liason aircraft of the USArmy European headquarters in Heidelberg Germany in the late fifties. Ocasionally they did an Open Base Day and you could win a 15 min.flight with the beaver. At this time my father worked with the EES-Services of the Us-Army repairing jukeboxes refrigerators and so on. With this connection I got a flight. Will never forget the eardeavening sound of its 500hp radial.

Beautiful colorsheme you choose.

[mgbooyv8]

Hi Aeropoxy,

 

You made a very nice job of that Beaver!

I have fond memories of that plane also

(had a ride in one when I was a student).

I didn't know there was a kit of it in 1/24th.

Who issues it?

 

Cheers,

 

Peter

[AEROPOXY]

Hi Aeropoxy,

 

You made a very nice job of that Beaver!

I have fond memories of that plane also

(had a ride in one when I was a student).

I didn't know there was a kit of it in 1/24th.

Who issues it?

 

Cheers,

 

Peter

 

Kit circulated over the Ebay and internet stores under the "Cedar Creek Trading Post "label, try Google, and even LSP forum search , there are some links.