Duck monoplane & He70, yellow : hybrid aircraft/animals e.a.

[Tophe]

lovely...

[zenrat]

Another good one.

Tell me Eric, do you go out with the specific intention of finding something specific for a model or is it a case of seeing something and thinking "oh, that will make a very good helicopter" (for example).

[ericr]

thanxalot!

sorry for the tail rotor : I reperaired it after the pictures were taken

Another good one.

Tell me Eric, do you go out with the specific intention of finding something specific for a model or is it a case of seeing something and thinking "oh, that will make a very good helicopter" (for example).

well it depends, there is some randomness, or serendipity in the process.
Sometimes I start from an aircraft, sometimes from an object, because I ilke their shape somehow,
and then I think "what could I do with it?"


For example in the case of the bananas, I first bought one fake plastic foam one in order to do this, inspired by a drawing by Kuczynski, which you might remember from there :
http://www.whatifmodellers.com/index.php/topic,37003.msg696592.html#msg696592

and then I saw potentiel for banana fuselages, and then the series took shape (you noticed I like series, maybe?) with monoplanes, biplanes, jet, propeller, ...

And sometimes it the other way round : I bought several space shuttles with boosters (1/144, Academy, real cheap), and then saw what could take the place of the shuttle, or booster, or both ; and a series came out of that (still one or two to go , by the way : stay tuned)

[Tophe]

So good! (to see and enjoy, not to eat)...

[zenrat]

Thanks for the explanation Eric.

[ericr]

Thanks for the explanation Eric.

you are welcome : it is mostly an inspiration thing actually.
Sometimes for particular cases I can say why and how some aspect of the shape of the one and of the other make me see a match, and sometimes I am indeed browsing catalogs for the kit that matches my needs, or conversely.

[TheChronicOne]

Someone should whip up a poll containing a number of non-aircraft items. We all vote on the item we want and then Eric gets to build it how he sees fit.   

(I suspected that it was normal "wear and tear" on the rotor, had to bust yer chops a bit!!        )

[ericr]

 

[ericr]

more bananas :

a 1/28 Sopwith Camel (I am busy lowering my stash level ...)
and a banana, because I wanted to see how it could look as a biplane

[TheChronicOne]

Works for me, bud!

One heck of a hump on that Camel.   

[Tophe]

wow, the forefather of the family? nice....

[ericr]

thanks !

[ericr]

the other half of the 1/28 Camel had to have a life, and in my qtash I had this Revell wooden kit of da Vinci designed wings for manned flight :

[PR19_Kit]

Now that's just INSPIRED! Well done Ericr. 

[Tophe]

You are proving Da Vinci was an inventor not a dreamer, or is this the same?