1/144 Douglas DCT from the Minicraft DC-6

[Tophe]

Beau-ti-ful !!
The aspect is very weird, with those jets near square windows - what have not been encountered anywhere since the Comet1 tragedies IIRC...

[John Howling Mouse]

"Pan Am's order was also dropped. A strike caused by empty rootbeer machines at parts contractor Bazatronic Industries (maker of the critical J-14 Mk. IV fastener which attached the wings and tail) made mass production of the DCT impossible. The fast pace of jet airliner development sealed its fate and NC88818 was scrapped in 1958. The only example of the DCT left is this desk model, found on top of a bone-dry Barq's rootbeer machine at a shuttered Bazatronic Industries plant near Beaver Tail, Canada."

This is all so very true, sadly.  Was part of the Great Canadian Root Beer Famine of 1957.  I read about it on wikipedia.

Well, BdaB, I must now confess: nearly every time you roll out a finished project, I am incredibly driven to slide everything off my own cob-webbed workbench and commence a direct copy of your own original concept.  How sick is THAT?!     You are the Master of Styrene Originality, my Spat-enabled friend.