CL Planes hanging from Bar Ceiling

[Shug Emery]

My Daughter was gigging at a club in Chicago and spied these planes. One is for sure a CL plane. Twin engines.
Not sure of the designs.
Shug

[Mark Mc]

The fore airplane looks like a Northrop P-61 Black Widow.  The biplane is a Starduster maybe?

Mark

[wwwarbird]

 WOW, way cool!

 The C/L model is a very scale looking Northrop P-61 "Black Widow". It shows some age appears to have been done quite well. The bipe I'm betting is a Sig "Skybolt".

 What's the name of the place Shug?

[Richard Logston]

The bi-plane is not a Starduster, how do I know, I built the single place version. It is as Shug says a Skybolt. Richard

[Ara Dedekian]

          Sometime during the middle or late 1960s there was an American Aircraft Models magazine cover that had me mesmerized. The outdoor photo was of a father and young son posing with three of their twin engine C/L scale models. A P-38, a P-61 and a (?). As a teenage model airplane addict, I found myself going back to it now and then, just staring at it and wishing I could build scale models like the ones shown. If my memory is correct, could the P-61 in Shug's daughters photo be the one that was on the cover of AAM?

       Ara

[Scott Richlen]

If Windy ever starts building again, I want him to do the P-61!

[Wynn Robins]

aeromodeller plans - I have em

[Scott Richlen]

So where's sheet 1?

[Wynn Robins]

So where's sheet 1?

in my collection -haha - attached

[Scott Richlen]

Thanks!  One more build I'll never get to.  But I can dream, can't I?

[wwwarbird]

 Shug,

 Did you get the name of the place?

[Shug Emery]

Shug,

 Did you get the name of the place?

She said in the office of a place called The Drifter.
http://www.thedrifterchicago.com

[wwwarbird]

 Looks like a really neat place, I'll be first to sign up for the club bus trip!

[kenneth cook]

                American Modeler December 1957 issue shows what looks just like this P-61. I wish I could scan it, but it just mentions Aristo Craft Model company.

[Ara Dedekian]

      My wife figured out a long time ago that when I'm gone she's going straight to the interior decorators with my planes. They put a greater $$ value on our work than other modelers. It's like the beat up Buster/Fox 35 I saw hanging in an antique shop for $125!

Ara