Planes in Strange Places

[The Rat]

AHA! Found an article about it: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/small-business/sb-growth/hobbyist-creates-life-size-airplane-replicas-out-of-scrap-metal/article15521523/

And the web site of the owner: http://www.modelaacres.com/

[zenrat]

Looks like a pretty poor cardboard replica of an Me-109, but they must have used some WIERD pics as reference.

Prolly based it on this.

[Dizzyfugu]

Looks like a scratchbuilt 1:1 version of a Buchon-Me 109 from  the "Battle of Britain" movie???

[Captain Canada]

Looks good to me lol

[TheChronicOne]

AHA! Found an article about it: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/small-business/sb-growth/hobbyist-creates-life-size-airplane-replicas-out-of-scrap-metal/article15521523/

And the web site of the owner: http://www.modelaacres.com/

Pretty cool! I wish I had the patience to craft things on that level.

[TheChronicOne]

Looks good to me lol

[KiwiZac]

Does a MiG-21MF on a corner store/lunchbar count for this? In Auckland, New Zealand (you need to click through the photos): http://www.stuff.co.nz/auckland/local-news/5603707/Businessman-is-just-plane-crazy

[TheChronicOne]

I'd say so!! Very cool..... I like that dudes style.   

It's a good lookin' airplane, too!     I wonder how much extra revenue his "investment" will bring in.. .. .    Sure beats billboards.

[Nick]

Does a MiG-21MF on a corner store/lunchbar count for this? In Auckland, New Zealand (you need to click through the photos): http://www.stuff.co.nz/auckland/local-news/5603707/Businessman-is-just-plane-crazy

Here it is! https://www.google.co.uk/maps/place/Onehunga,+Auckland+1061,+New+Zealand/@-36.9204924,174.8071573,117m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x6d0d48e864aa355d:0x500ef6143a2ef40!8m2!3d-36.9227811!4d174.7851972?hl=en

From street level - https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@-36.9208169,174.8073159,3a,40.1y,348.41h,96.96t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1stERfyaiFQIev4h_HRll_Lw!2e0!6s%2F%2Fgeo1.ggpht.com%2Fcbk%3Fpanoid%3DtERfyaiFQIev4h_HRll_Lw%26output%3Dthumbnail%26cb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile.gps%26thumb%3D2%26w%3D203%26h%3D100%26yaw%3D177.66306%26pitch%3D0%26thumbfov%3D100!7i13312!8i6656?hl=en

[KiwiZac]

For those who are wondering, no I've never seen it in person but I am planning a model of it (on the ground)!

One day I may visit but, as it's up on the roof, it's a long trip and a exercise in navigating our biggest (and worst-laid-out) city for not much payoff...but I do think it's funny the foodbar appears to have a Vietnamese name!

Paul Jellick, the original owner, also imported a two-seater which is at a museum (and accessible without ladders) at Wanaka in the South Island. Our roof-based friend is an ex-Polish machine and can be seen in a Squadron book on the Fishbed:
SSP131_zps6dd4059d by Zac Yates, on Flickr

If you want to read more about the Kiwi Fishbeds that never got to become warbirds, visit this thread at my other online home Wings Over New Zealand: http://rnzaf.proboards.com/thread/2242/mig-21-where

[perttime]

MiG-21 sitting on a sightseeing area on top a big electronics retail store in Helsinki.

https://www.verkkokauppa.com/fi/myymalat/jatkasaari

[kitnut617]

At Evergreen's museum property, next door is the water park with this:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3b/Evergreen_747_Waterslide_%287149049963%29.jpg

[rickshaw]

At Evergreen's museum property, next door is the water park with this:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3b/Evergreen_747_Waterslide_%287149049963%29.jpg

Airfix is getting pretty good with their 1:1 reproduction kits... 

[Old Wombat]

At Evergreen's museum property, next door is the water park with this:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3b/Evergreen_747_Waterslide_%287149049963%29.jpg

Pretty good for a sheet styrene build!

[PR19_Kit]

At Evergreen's museum property, next door is the water park with this:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3b/Evergreen_747_Waterslide_%287149049963%29.jpg

Pretty good for a sheet styrene build!

I bet they had the putty delivered by a 6000 gallon tanker. And can you IMAGINE the size of the sanding block they used???