USMC Spruce Goose

[Captain Canada]

Not sure if I've ever talked about it here, but I've been collecting/ working on pieces for a 200 scale Korean War diorama. What started out as a Spruce Goose in US Navy service unloading US Army assets for a surprise assault has turned into an ever expanding never-ending project, as everything I touch seems to be. More on that later. To combat this never ending project, I figured I'd add even more to it by way of the OWB. If I can finish this in one week maybe it will spur me on !

22F106EE-24FC-487A-8E3D-FCF30611A6AA by Todd Pomerleau, on Flickr

[The Rat]

Beware those teeny-tiny prop blades, they break off if you sneeze.

[AeroplaneDriver]

So this will be used to move the entire Corps around as one group??   

[PR19_Kit]

Even in 1/200 scale that's a BIG aeroplane! 

[zenrat]

"Largest wooden aircraft ever built"

That's begging to be finished in NMF.   

[sandiego89]

It is an easy kit, low parts count, but the Rat is correct, very delicate props and shafts.

[PR19_Kit]

That's begging to be finished in NMF.   

Hehehe, a special 'JMN exploding' scheme. 

Like putting lots of rivets on a Mosquito.

[zenrat]

That's begging to be finished in NMF.   

Hehehe, a special 'JMN exploding' scheme. 

Like putting lots of rivets on a Mosquito.

Or building a rusty Corvette.

[kitnut617]

Even in 1/200 scale that's a BIG aeroplane! 

Yes I quite agree with you Kit, this is the one I've built, it's almost as big as my 1/48 Lancaster



I almost bought moulds to make 1/72 scale vacuform kits of it, only the deal fell though. Then Execuform announced they were making vacuform HK-1 kits in 1/72 and I nearly bought a couple, my plan was to do one in overall glossy sea blue and the other I was going to change the engines to Northrop/Hendy XT37 turboprops.

[Rheged]

That's begging to be finished in NMF.   

Hehehe, a special 'JMN exploding' scheme. 

Like putting lots of rivets on a Mosquito.

Or building a rusty Corvette.

I'm assuming "motor vehicle"  as ALL maritime corvettes were rusty within a couple of weeks of completion.........did the car roll as much as the average naval corvette did?    Late godfather told me flower class would roll on a damp flannel.

[PR19_Kit]

It's Corvette with an upper case 'C', so it is a car, yes. 

Actually the Corvette was a pretty good handling car, despite its transverse leaf rear suspension. That's unlike its GM stablemate, the Corvair, which had a similar rear spring, but allied with swing axles! Disaster! 

[AeroplaneDriver]

This makes me thing we should have a "Fininsh It Wrong" GB with NMF Mossies, rusty 'Vettes and fiberglass yachts, plywood decalled Mustangs, etc. 

[PR19_Kit]

I'm all for that, oh yes. 

A long while ago I started building a metal B-2, but the basic kit is so soul destroying I never got as far as the tenth PSR session.......

[McColm]

Are you going to hinge the nose in a similar fashion like the Convair Tradewind or have a pair of camshell doors for off loading the troops and machinery?

[sandiego89]

Are you going to hinge the nose in a similar fashion like the Convair Tradewind or have a pair of camshell doors for off loading the troops and machinery?

When I toured the Spruce Goose decades ago in Long Beach, I recall a very nice nose section display with side-opening bow doors (like a Gigant) and ramp like the production version of the Hercules was intended to have.  Kinda ruined the elegant lines, but was interesting.