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

[Captain Canada]

Very nice ! hard to pick a winner out of those 2. The dragon I guess. that's just too fun !

[ericr]

thanks a lot again !

[ericr]

not quite hybrids, but a nice pair of kits I found lately, of the brand Renwal, of very early aircraft.

They were both composed of a plastic "squeleton" with a kind of fabric to be cut and pasted in order to finish the surfaces.



I chose to keep the Antoinette as a squeleton, because I liked the idea, in blue :





and for the Voisin biplane, my motivation to find and build it came originally from a painting by Robert Delaunay in the 1910s where its simplified geometric shape appeared :

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:L%27%C3%89quipe_de_Cardiff



and I did it in a more Mondrian-esque livery :

[jcf]

 

Really like the Voindrian. 

[PR19_Kit]

Blimey, Renwal kits, that takes me back.

At their time they were very advanced and well moulded too, and the 'fabric' covering was a clever idea, but perhaps a little too clever at the time. It'd be interesting to see if it would sell well again today.

[ericr]

thanks !


yes, the kits are really refined, and the fabric thing is not too difficult, but might not appeal so much to modellers used to plastic only.

[NARSES2]

I built a few Renwal kits as a kid. Mainly the armour and artillery they did. Did they do an Atomic canon ? I know I built one and it was huge. I think I attempted one of the biplanes but gave up. I was about 7 or 8 I think

[PR19_Kit]

I built a few Renwal kits as a kid. Mainly the armour and artillery they did. Did they do an Atomic canon ? I know I built one and it was huge. I think I attempted one of the biplanes but gave up. I was about 7 or 8 I think

They sure did, and it was HUGE too! IIRC Revell re-popped it not that long ago as well. I still have one of their 'Big Six' SP guns with loads of internal detail up in The Loft.

I built their WWI Bristol F2B with the fabric 'skin' and it looked really good, but I chickened out at the rigging stage. That was a step too far for me back then. I've only ever built one rigged bi-plane and that was my Dad's Audax.

[steelpillow]

and I did it in a more Mondrian-esque livery :

As I recall, the livery was was not by Mondrian but by Gerrit Rietveld, he of the Riteveld chair and Schröder House. In less whiffy mode I once found myself in Utrecht (from which hailed Dr. Strabismus, whom God preserve) and tracked down the house. It looked lovely, a 3D Mondrian part covered in green climbers. I still have a photo somewhere. Judging by the more recent image on Wikipedia (see link), some ignoramus has since painted it in shades of grey. Sacrilege!

In passing, the tailless Westland-Hill Pterodactyl Mk.I hangs in the Science Museum's flight hall and has one side fabric-covered with the other side just the exposed framework. The aircraft was designed after consulting the tailless aircraft pioneer J W Dunne, who sent Hill a drawing of the wing and, by some accounts, also a small flying model. The poster with the Voisin in it also has a link with Dunne - the Astra company, whose name features even more prominently, built his last and most successful monoplane, the D.7bis. I have just begun preliminary work on a whiff more directly based on Dunne's design for Hill, but as it has to be all of copied from the Museum archive, given a fuselage and scratchbuilt, please don't wait up.

All in all, a wonderful pair of whiffs, thank you ericr.

[ericr]

and I did it in a more Mondrian-esque livery :

As I recall, the livery was was not by Mondrian but by Gerrit Rietveld, he of the Riteveld chair and Schröder House. In less whiffy mode I once found myself in Utrecht (from which hailed Dr. Strabismus, whom God preserve) and tracked down the house. It looked lovely, a 3D Mondrian part covered in green climbers. I still have a photo somewhere. Judging by the more recent image on Wikipedia (see link), some ignoramus has since painted it in shades of grey. Sacrilege!

In passing, the tailless Westland-Hill Pterodactyl Mk.I hangs in the Science Museum's flight hall and has one side fabric-covered with the other side just the exposed framework. The aircraft was designed after consulting the tailless aircraft pioneer J W Dunne, who sent Hill a drawing of the wing and, by some accounts, also a small flying model. The poster with the Voisin in it also has a link with Dunne - the Astra company, whose name features even more prominently, built his last and most successful monoplane, the D.7bis. I have just begun preliminary work on a whiff more directly based on Dunne's design for Hill, but as it has to be all of copied from the Museum archive, given a fuselage and scratchbuilt, please don't wait up.

All in all, a wonderful pair of whiffs, thank you ericr.

thanks a lot !

and thanks for your comments : you are right, Mondrian in 3D immediately leads to Rietveld : I saw his house in Utrecht long ago (25 years?), and his armchair is also worth looking at ;-)

Dunne's tailess airplanes are impressive, they would certainly form a beautiful basis for whiffs

[ericr]

a cross-kit-bash, in 1/43 Heller : a bit sketchy but gives the idea

[Tophe]

Usually I love planes and dislike cars, but your car mixes are delicious!

[NARSES2]

The Citroen bonnet on the Mini rear certainly works well  The other way around looks like an emergency lash up on one of the very early Dakar rallies  Two teams combined into one after a smash ?

Fantastic work 

[ericr]

thanks!

[ericr]

a kitbash, from remains I had from previous projects ... nothing should get lost ! 
The Twin Otter is remarkably flexible and adaptable ; and I still have two more in my stash  ... 
And the Mi-1 parts were used with a pipe shown earlier in this very same thread.
And the top cockpit from some old Zero-like japanese plane.