Picking up as suggested - in a new thread.
Adding: Ty commented about Dick the Mathis' Piper Cherokee. I'd thought it was one of the M&P small profiles kitted; probably wasn't.
Keith had valuable comments on "authenticity," and "Fidelity Points." Representative finish well regarded, but not required. Some latitude about appearance of layout. Not to an excessive degree.
I had drafted the following off-line, and copied it in before the problem popped up.
Charles,
Around late 1991 I copied or saved stunt model mag articles. It helped to have a friend who was clearing out his mags. Text and line copy quality was quite good, images were usually poor by today’s standards. For Classic (models kitted or published before 1970) AND profile, my files show:
Sources:
American Aircraft Modeler: - last surviving descendant of AirTrails, which went through several names, and carried AMA news before AMA's Model Aviation came out.
FM was, of course, Flying Models, which also put out two ‘FM Decade of Design’ books, collections of plan pages from RC, CL and FF articles they’d published.
Items Found:
Rayette Gialdini Feb 67 America Aircraft Modeler
Excalibur Mathis May 67, Flying Models
Piper Cherokee Mathis Sept 64 FM Decade
Novette Norm Dion Jul 68 FM Decade
Me-109 Vince Micchia Jun 69 FM (and MidWest Kit)
NOTES:
Many have commented on Bob G’s Rayette’s excellence, his takeoff on his Stingray.
Excalibur is also highly praised. Dick M also published an Excalibur 2, after the Classic era.
Dick’s Piper Cherokee may have been (one of 3 smallish, near identical) an M&K kit profile. I recall a high wing Cessna Cardinal and Ercoupe. Great fun, but hardly suitable contest stunters.
Norm Dion’s Novette. may have been a takeoff on one of the NOVI series.
Mathis’ Coyote is a large, unflapped model of surprisingly good performance
Micchia’s Me-109 was one of three MidWest warbird stunt profiles that appeared, with the Bell KingCobra (tricycle gear) and P-51 Mustang, at the same time. Very similar, decent stunters, a bit large for Fox 35; kit wood often heavy. (Modern technique and trimming could make them nice on modern power.)
If you can’t find enough info to build any of these, I can probably find my copies, scan and email them to you. The mags are defunct (sob;) copying is, in effect, “sharing a working copy made to preserve the original,” No charge, but if it comes to large postal costs (e.g., enlarging plans and snail mailing them,) I’d hope to get that back.
Topic: Profile stunters in late Classic era (Read 828 times)
