Glenn's Current Modeling Projects

Glenn · February 23, 2009, 06:25:02 PM

When I started the conversion of the Super 'G' to a Connie.....there was more to the plan. This is the first view of the B-30..one of four US bombers I will be building this year. I have all of the kits to convert, (3) and one to scratch build. No more for now, another to follow.
Glenn

Glenn · February 24, 2009, 06:20:21 PM

As the bombers go, this is four of four......
Glenn.

Glenn · February 28, 2009, 06:40:37 PM

A few years ago, I bought a set of vacform floats. As I was doing a project and needed two floats and only had one left, I cut out the two halves and set them on a piece of MDF and made a box around them and took the unit to my hobby shop, (Hobbyrama) and asked Jim to do a mould and then two sets of castings. The piece on the bottom is the vacform, above that the rubber and above that the two floats. One of the floats is smaller than the other. That's the reguired size to start the project.
Glenn

Glenn · March 01, 2009, 07:25:55 PM

See, the lower wing is now on. No near being finished!
Glenn

Tophe · March 01, 2009, 08:20:41 PM

Quote from: Glenn on February 15, 2009, 11:19:16 PM
Now Tophe, this is not asymeteric...its just the first step of a twin engine Albatros bomber. After buying two DIII's for their decals I wondered what to do with them? The lower wing is from an Airfix WW1 German model...name escapes me, but its a 'long time project'!
Glenn

Quote from: Glenn on March 01, 2009, 07:25:55 PM
See, the lower wing is now on. No near being finished!
Glenn

Dear Glenn, I love both versions! Asymmetric and twin-boom! What beauties!

Thanks a lot for creating such marvels again and again! (I mean it, not joking)

Glenn · March 03, 2009, 06:23:38 PM

Back with the saucer from Dalek Invasion of Earth. At this point I shelved it, as I'd had enough of it!
Next.....a finished project.
Glenn

Glenn · March 04, 2009, 06:29:36 PM

It is not a well known fact, but back in 1925, Czechoslovakia entered the Schneider Trophy races. With a modified Avia B.21 fighter, now a fast floatplane, it was eliminated in the first round, but it was this event that put Czech aviation in the world spotlight!
Model : VP 1/72 Avia B.21 fighter.
Floats and struts : Balsa floats in the old flat style with E'green rod.
National markings : hand painted.
Glenn

Brian da Basher · March 05, 2009, 04:07:56 PM

Nice work on the floats and the 'I" interplane struts, Glenn! Those old-style Czech markings are icing on the cake!

Brian da Basher

Glenn · April 26, 2009, 01:59:30 AM

Back to the bombers...this one is '2 of 4'. It will be 1/72sc and the square block is 13.5 inches long. Any clues yet?
Glenn

Tophe · April 26, 2009, 02:04:45 AM

Quote from: Glenn on April 26, 2009, 01:59:30 AM
Back to the bombers...this one is '2 of 4'. It will be 1/72sc and the square block is 13.5 inches long. Any clues yet?
Glenn

What do you mean by '2 of 4'? Something as a 2-engined B-29?

(Sorry, I read English word by word, not knowing special groups of words)

Jschmus · April 26, 2009, 08:13:20 AM

Quote from: Tophe on April 26, 2009, 02:04:45 AM
Quote from: Glenn on April 26, 2009, 01:59:30 AM
Back to the bombers...this one is '2 of 4'. It will be 1/72sc and the square block is 13.5 inches long. Any clues yet?
Glenn
What do you mean by '2 of 4'? Something as a 2-engined B-29? (Sorry, I read English word by word, not knowing special groups of words)

Tophe,

In an earlier post, Glenn refers to four US bombers he will be building. The Constellation-based XB-30 was the first. This is the second, of those four.

I hope I parsed that down sufficiently.

Glenn · April 26, 2009, 08:37:53 PM

Yeah, that's right, the XB-30 was '1 of 4' and this is 2 of 4. This time we have a Pontiac FireBird III 'concept car' of the 1960's. Used in the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey for a total of 2 seconds, and an interior of about the same time, didn't give you any time to view it. But, in the movie book, of the making of the movie, you see a side view of it. Built from fibreglass, to a scale of 1/12th gives it a length of 20 inches (51cm) The running gear is from a set of R/C car parts, and the cockpit is scratch built. The section above the cockpit is transparent, so I'll have to get that bit vacformed eventually! I've been on it for 10 years now, a real bitch to built...I tell you, and like most of those consept designs, as ugly as the rest of them!
Glenn

Glenn · April 27, 2009, 08:38:50 PM

Ok, back with the 'Bubble Fighter' from the movie 'Lost in Space'. Construction is now finished, and undercoated and is 7.5 inches long with a height of 9.25 inches. By the bubble, I'd say the scale was around 1/72...but that was luck.
Glenn

Tophe · April 27, 2009, 10:14:11 PM

Wonderful!

Uh, additionnal question: it seems asymmetric, is it?

John Howling Mouse · April 28, 2009, 11:00:16 AM

That B-30 is a real gem, Glenn. Hope you finish her. Really innovative and yet, one cannot help but think "I know I've seen that airplane somewhere before..."

Edit: I just looked it up and it was an actual concept aircraft! Yours looks somehow better than the other depictions I've now seen of it.