My Fellow Modelers,
I am sharing here my templates of many stunt planes’ design which I drew over the years. Hope this would be somehow a helpful resource for your future control line modeling journeys.
Over the years, I had a long list of planes to build and fly, but did not have neither the high building and painting skills nor the time and funds for such projects. Thus, I was imagining the outline of the planes in my mind, which was disappearing quickly without even being captured. It was fun.
Later, I began to review different designs by rolling out plans, but that required a large area to do so. Therefore, I initiated to collect letter size (8.5"x11") plans in a three ring binder for more convenient access and quick view of designs while drinking my coffee. Subsequently, I started to draw letter size planes’ templates for the purpose of paint schemes and design studies. I noticed when I draw a plane, it takes me to a tour of showing the distinctive aspects of its visual design. Very satisfactory to me indeed. Hence, I decided to generate more design templates simply for the purpose of visual tour and design studies.
At the beginning of pandemic, I had more time to draw planes for hours daily. After a while, I noticed that WOW, I have been in different periods and places of control line modeling via my drawings. I drew many designs such as; OTS, modern, experimental, Europeans, classics and etc..
Recently, I thought gathering all these drawings somewhere but my computer could be a great archival source which could enable others to utilize these templates too. This actually makes me very happy. Therefore I decided to share them in "Stunt Hanger; Model Library" with fellow modelers.
How to use these PDF templates:
• Output in letter size B+W/color and fit to page in a home printer. As many as copies needed
• Mark the printed copy with, crayons, pencils or marker to implement the favorite pattern on a plane
• Computer users, place the template in to the desired program of design and drawing, then carry on to completion
• The final sheet could be the guide in painting the actual model
• Simply view the template to only study the visual appearance of a design
And, remember, these templates are NOT building plans (i.e., all of them have equal wing panels), even though they have been drew with high attention to details.
Although I have tried hard to avoid any mistakes on the process, but there might be still some missing issues such as name, typos, design, lines and etc. I count on you in helping me to correct all those issues. Also, please help me in expanding this collection further by generating additional designs templates.
My hat is off to all the designers (some are not with us anymore) and their exceptional channel of thinking of how to see this wing, stab + elev, rudder and fuse. Their effort is magnificent and significantly valued by me.
I would like to thank my many control line friends in helping me to locate plans and planes to draw and make this collection deeper. It’s greatly appreciated. Also special thanks to Keith Sandberg of Minneapolis Piston Poppers, my very first teacher, then my very dear friend and mentor Jose Modesto of NY Stunt Masters who taught me how to see the world.
Last, but not least, thanks to Sparky for providing and offering this digital gathering space.
I am going to upload these files as we go, hopefully you could download and archive them based on your own criteria. I personally organized them by designers’ name (people who have more than one design), then the planes’ name.
Thank You,
Sina
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