Unsung hero... DHC Beaver

[thierry laurent]

While we are still waiting (for ages...) for the release of a 1/32 DHC Beaver, Guideline just released an excellent book in their Warpaint series. Some issues of that very large range of booklets are just passable but that one is a good one! Highly recommended and I hope that new reference will just give the required impetus to design a 1/32 model of that workhorse...

[Archimedes]

Fully agreed!!! 
 

kind regards,

Paul

[rafju]

Hi

 in the past I've asked this guy to send me his drawings at 1/32th scale (to realize and estimate this beauty at the scale):

https://mraerodesign.securicom.ca/en/products/index.cfm?RubriqueID=3

,that he did, and what I can say is yesss, we definitely need an injected Beaver!!

[quang]

I remember seeing a 1/32 DH Beaver released in yellow plastic in Scale Models (UK) magazine in the late 20th century.
The inside of the fuselage was practically empty but the shapes were there.

[rafju]

Not in 1/32 but 1/24, seen here sometimes, like this outstanding work:

 

[quang]

21 minutes ago, rafju said:

Not in 1/32 but 1/24, seen here sometimes, like this outstanding work

No no. The one I saw in SM was originally designed as a promotional gift. I recall having  a project to replace the kit basic engine with one of the (then) outstanding Williams Bros 1/32 Wasp junior renditions.
Never got the Beaver but I still have the Williams P&W.

[thierry laurent]

The one I know is also a 1/24th "model" and it was also cast in yellow plastic. As far as I'm remembering correctly, it had no interior.

 

I'm remembering seeing it advertised in FSM a looooong time ago!

[quang]

OK guys, somehow senility was beckoning and I didn’t know 

Edited October 28, 2023 by quang

[rafju]

and from what I can remember it was edited (Cedar Creek Trading Post models) as a promotional item, a snap together kit.

Canadian Mist DHC-2 Float Beaver, Sackfields Promotions Inc. 1 (1979) (scalemates.com)

 

It can be found at other nice build through the Web:

DHC-2 by George Mustafa (Cedar Creek Models1/24) (hyperscale.com)

1/24 scale DHC-2 Beaver build - Modelling Discussion - Large Scale Modeller

Edited October 28, 2023 by rafju
Scalemates link added

[Out2gtcha]

It's not super detailed, but the old Cedar Creek Beaver still looks the part from a distance.

I did this one many, many years ago. I did nothing for the interior, but did redo the engine, prop and riveted the entire thing, and did the exterior mods to turn it into a CHC II based in Canada. This included prop modification, exhaust mods, lower intake, strakes, added vertical finds for the tail, antenna mods as well as a heavily modded wing with the addition of drooped STOL tips:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

It was a fun build, just nothing too fancy or super detailed, but still a bit beyond the average Cedar Creek Beaver.

 

[rafju]

Wow Brian! very nice!

and just come to found at a "terrible" WIP through this FB page:

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[Jack]

I still have the "cedar creek" kit, not assembled, but used the floats for another project, but it's a pretty neat presentation for a DH Beaver, wishing for a IM 1/32 kit for sure!!

 

[chrish]

1/32 would be a really nice size kit. I've got the 1/24 scale banana in a box here in the stash...had to put it in a box inside a closet because the bright yellow makes it hard to get to sleep at night.

I worked on and flew in (only as an apprentice) Beaver, serial number 01 back in the 70's before it headed off to a museum.

Built several of Hobbycraft Canada's (old now) 1/48 kits even converting one to the turbine version so, yes a 1/32 DHC-2 would be a fine addition to the build log

[R Palimaka]

Another aircraft that had widespread military and civilian use and no kit in large scale. So many attractive markings schemes. Many of us have flown in one for various reasons, I had several flights while fighting forest fires in Northern Ontario many decades ago.

 

Another one to add to the, "Why isn't there a 1/32 kit of..." list. 

 

Richard

[Jim Barry]

Because of my obsession* with 1/24 kit collecting, I have the "promotion" kit. (actually 2) I hope to build out the interior, vacuform some real windows,  put it on wheels and make it a US Navy Test Pilot School Glider tug. Pretty rare bird.