In all honesty, when I first received this fuselage I was going to toss the thing.
But, I took a really good look at it, my guess is late 60's or early 70's, and, it's obvious this modeler spent a great deal of time building it.
I'm thinking it's a Travelair, possibly Grumman I knew it wasn't a Stearman.
Then it hit me. It's a Duster, probably a an old Grumman biplane duster. Certainly not old when the modeler started this scale or semi-scale project.
"Good" Will Hinton, hit it out of the park with his AG CAT build a few years ago, and so did Dan with his award winning "Dusty." Those two models, I knew someday I would tackle a Duster.
I've been working on drawing Dusters for years and planned on building one from my own plans. Here's my CAD, "Computer Aided Drawing" efforts, these drawings are old and have now been improved and changed to fit the outlines of this fuselage.
I actually started a project the Fire Boss Ag Cat on floats. I drew plans for the Fire Boss and started building the fuselage. I've been working on that till I got this fuselage.
This fuselage is so close to the 164. All I had to do was scale the drawings to the length of the fuselage.
The rest, as they say, is history. I'm making progress but put the project on hold for the GBR3.
I loose interest quickly on any current project so I'm glad I have many going on that I can work on from time to time. I always get back to each and every one them.
Obviously, my interest is unusual projects not kit building. The only kit I've built straight out of the box was the Skyfall 007 Flite Streak.
Here's a bit more work completed on this Grumman AG CAT.
CB