Anybody have a builder-quality kit they want to sell? Box not important. Please don't post that I can get the plans on some website, I am not carving the fuse and nacelles!
The only kit I am aware of for the North American AJ-1 Savage is the Berkeley kit from years ago. It is small, 3/8" = 1' scale, (27" span, 1/32 scale), with as you suggested carved blocks for the fuselage and engine nacelles. Sometimes, the Berkeley kit will show up on eBay, but normally these have appeared to be only partially complete, often without the carved fuselage or nacelles. Even then, the prices being asked have been exhorbatant. Right now there is a "partial kit" listed on eBay, but appears to have only the engine nacalles, maybe some of the tail parts, but no wing parts and NO fuselage carved block which is a feature of this kit. Plans are shown with the box.
There was a nicely done article for a twin rubber stick and tissue model FF in the February 1986 issue of Flying Models by Dick Howard with what shows to be about a 27 1/4" span, so it is about the same size as the Berkeley kit.
3- views of the airplane are scarce. North American published a sheet with really good drawings many years ago and sometimes a copy of this will appear on eBay, but most appear to be rather "worn". These (among other 3-views) were available from the Navy when the Navy was promoting the CL carrier event.
Excellent 1/72 drawings were published in the British publication "Aviation News" published in the July 28 - August 8, 1975 issue. This will sometimes appear from British sources and on eBay. These drawings were reproduced in the 2-volume set on North American aircraft by Kevin Thompson published in 1999. A copy of these 3-views is available from Aircraft Documentation Services (which also has pictures of the Savage in the US Navy Aviation Museum) which was previously Bob's Aircraft Documentation.
Keith
Topic: Berkeley AJ-1 Savage (Read 641 times)
