Help this guy out please

[RC Storick]

Thanks so very much. I am now looking for a 77" Ford Trimotor kit made by Scalemaster Models Inc. In fact I'm looking for any of their kits. I also am asking for advice. The Trimotor had corrigated aluminum on the fuselage. Does anyone know how to replicate this look on models? Thanks. Paul Ceselsky. Seikoc(at)msn(dot)com

[Don Curry AMA 267060]

You might try contacting Joe Topper at Proctor Enterprises. He built an r/c scale model of the German trimotor from WW II and had a corrigated surfaces.
Don

[Robert McHam]

I seem to remember a flying Models issue that had a Trimotor on the cover and it was of a scale trimotor and dealt with the corrugated finish. I won't try to guess the year on it mid to late seventies is my best guess.

Robert

[Steve Helmick]

Fulton Hungerford built a rubber powered Ford Trimotor with corrigated skins that were molded from something fairly common, like nitrate dope, maybe. Probably wouldn't work for a big plane like the kit above, but perhaps if molds could be made, CF Mat and epoxy could work with a vacuum bag system. Howard could do it. PW would build a Junkers Ju 52 and take it to the WC's....    Steve

[Clancy Arnold]

At least for sport scale a sheet balsa side with the right number of thin strips of balsa glued on should look ok.
Clancy

[Ralph Wenzel (d)]

Scalemaster was a smallish company (I think based in NY State) back in the '60s and '70s. Some info suggests that there were two companies with this name, but both in the same area. It's gonna be tough to find kits, although I did locate a few plansets. Try Google . . .

[Don Curry AMA 267060]

I soke to Joe at our club meeting and he said his came from a German kit he imported and the corrigation was moulded in fiberglas in a mould.
Don

[Ken Deboy]

Evergreen Scale Models ( http://www.evergreenscalemodels.com/Sheets.htm ) has styrene simulated corrugated metal sheets in 6x12 or 12x24. The largest size they list would scale to about 1/2" wide rib tops with 1-1/2" spacing.

cheers,
Ken