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General control line discussion => Open Forum => Topic started by: Tom Niebuhr on November 21, 2013, 09:13:33 AM

Title: Warbird ?
Post by: Tom Niebuhr on November 21, 2013, 09:13:33 AM

This is my 1st Profile in over 40 years. A very special build.

Any guesses?

Title: Re: Warbird ?
Post by: Randy Powell on November 21, 2013, 11:34:41 AM

Peashooter?

Title: Re: Warbird ?
Post by: Joe Just on November 21, 2013, 11:48:46 AM

Gee Bee R-1?
Joe

Title: Re: Warbird ?
Post by: Douglas Ames on November 21, 2013, 11:51:27 AM

CORSAIR  ;D

Title: Re: Warbird ?
Post by: wwwarbird on November 21, 2013, 01:39:13 PM

 Grumman Avenger. y1

Title: Re: Warbird ?
Post by: 55chevr on November 21, 2013, 02:15:47 PM

Brewster Buffalo.


Joe

Title: Re: Warbird ?
Post by: Mike Keville on November 21, 2013, 03:08:49 PM

F4F Wildcat

Title: Re: Warbird ?
Post by: Balsa Butcher on November 21, 2013, 03:21:56 PM

Avenger...looks like the Don Hutchinson version. Note suggestion of turret behind  main canopy. 8)

Title: Re: Warbird ?
Post by: Steve Kocher on November 21, 2013, 04:16:11 PM

I agree with Pete.  That definitely looks like Don's Avenger.  I have his entire Warbirds series.  I really want to build the Hellcat, but I have a number of models ahead of it and I'm not  making much progress on them.

Steve

Title: Re: Warbird ?
Post by: 55chevr on November 21, 2013, 04:39:01 PM

Brewster Buffalo with a rear turret?



Joe

Title: Re: Warbird ?
Post by: Tom Niebuhr on November 22, 2013, 06:14:12 AM

Wayne, Pete, Steve,

Correct, it is Don Hutchinson's Avenger.  As of last night the framing is complete, including the turret. I have to install the tail wheel mount  then I can install the fuselage skin. I will take another picture tonight.

Title: Re: Warbird ?
Post by: Will Hinton on November 22, 2013, 02:35:32 PM

This is starting to scare me, Tom!  This is your first profile in a bunch of years, I just bought the fuse material yesterday for MY first profile in over 15 years!!  (And it's a warbird, too.)  Are we inhabiting each other's minds?? n~ ??? :o
I decided I needed a profile for just kicking around, then decided, if I'm gonna build one, why not a bipe, then the old love reared it's head in the form of the old Berkely SBC-3 Helldiver I built in the 50's.  So now I'm in the design stage of deciding size, etc. and airfoils.  I'm about there, and as soon as I get my foam cutting hardware back from Traxler I'll start on the wings.
Keep some pics coming, pard.

Title: Re: Warbird ?
Post by: wwwarbird on November 22, 2013, 07:46:24 PM

 Tom,

 How about jumping over to the Building section with this one and then keep us in the loop all the way through the build? y1 y1 y1

 

Title: Re: Warbird ?
Post by: Tom Niebuhr on November 23, 2013, 09:40:45 AM

Here is an update as of this morning.

Will,
I guess Great Minds ????? think alike??

Wayne,
You are correct any more should be in the builders section. With too much going on at once, it will be a slow build.

Title: Re: Warbird ?
Post by: FLOYD CARTER on November 23, 2013, 05:52:59 PM

Those Grumanns!  What did they do with all that extra room inside?  (did they get paid by the cubic inch?)

Floyd

Title: Re: Warbird ?
Post by: 55chevr on November 23, 2013, 07:57:11 PM

The extra room was for armor.   The Grumman Iron Works.