I can't resist posting this picture of a beatiful Musciano designed Spitfire, which was built and recently completed by a friend in Toronto. It's done in Johnny Johnson markings. He also has a Me109 and P51 built and is in the process of finishing them as well. Walt would be proud of his work.

Very nice, sign that man up!  How about some details?

John

Back in the early days, (60s) many of Walter Musciano's scale designs were published primarily in American Modeler Magazine. One of his articles (Triple Threat) included plans for a Spitfire, ME109 and P51. My friend Gordon in Toronto is an artist and scale C/L modeler. Gordon decided to build all three triple threat models in honor of Mr. Musciano. His models have period correct engines in them (K&B Stallion and Greenhead .35s). His ME109 even has a scale spinner that was custom made for him by another friend of mine in Winnipeg. Here's some interesting pictures of Gordon's other triple threat models.

Very, very cool models, and quality work too. More pictures please...

A few more pics of Gordon's triple threat models under construction:
Note, the multi blade props are for display only.

Ok you got me, where can I get plans for these?

That Musciano "Triple Threat" appeared in the Dec 52 issue of Air Trails.  They were drawn up to 3/4" = 1' scale witch was pretty much the standard scale that Walt Musciano published a large number of CL scale designs for a number of years.  Air Trails sold the Triple Threat plans as one set.  For a number of years, that was the no. 1 selling plans of all time for Air Trails.  AMA now sells plans separately for each of those three airplanes.  The AMA listings for these designs are:

Spitfire -- AMA Plan # 35468

North American P-51 --  AMA plan #23095

Messerschmitt Bf 109 --  AMA plan # 23059

Air Trails did another "triple threat" several years later which included the Grumman F4F Wildcat, the Hawker Hurricane and the Mitsubishi Zero.

Interesting stuff.

Keith

That Musciano "Triple Threat" appeared in the Dec 52 issue of Air Trails.  They were drawn up to 3/4" = 1' scale witch was pretty much the standard scale that Walt Musciano published a large number of CL scale designs for a number of years.  Air Trails sold the Triple Threat plans as one set.  For a number of years, that was the no. 1 selling plans of all time for Air Trails.  AMA now sells plans separately for each of those three airplanes.  The AMA listings for these designs are:

Spitfire -- AMA Plan # 35468

North American P-51 --  AMA plan #23095

Messerschmitt Bf 109 --  AMA plan # 23059

Air Trails did another "triple threat" several years later which included the Grumman F4F Wildcat, the Hawker Hurricane and the Mitsubishi Zero.

Interesting stuff.

Keith

Gentlemen:

Allen Hunt is back on the air, "modelairplaneplans.com"  and he just sent me the Musciano P51 plan with the instruction sheet (from 'Hobby Helpers')
The plan came in 3 days, and I'm cutting parts now. Email Allen at   abhunt@earth1.net 
Tell him Mike sent ya!