Airplanes ??????

Bring them on!

Here are my two Cessna 172 planes flying over Martha’s Vineyard.

I used to have all of the Hallmark Legends of Flight series which varied in scale from 1/48 to 1/72, and smaller. I wrote an article for MAR about them around 2007. I used to have other planes - Ertl, Corgi, Matchbox, even the very small scale Dinky Toys from the early 1950s. But they took up a lot of space (think of Corgi's B-17 in 1/72) and I decided to sell them off to concentrate on 1/43 vehicles. Today I have three aircraft models left - a P-40 similar to my uncle's WW2 plane, a 1/43 New Ray helicopter for the Ferrari F1 team, and a Corgi 1/48 LA fire/rescue Huey. From the Hallmark series, these are the ones in 1/48, except the Wright Flyer is 1/72:

Note that The Sky's the Limit series are the smaller tree ornaments, very much smaller than 1/48 though a few might display well with 1/64 or HO scale items. Several of the ornaments and models complement each other.

I still have several model airplanes in both 1/48 and 1/72 scale. With one exception, they are all diecast. Mostly from World War 2, but some jets. If you have interest in seeing photos, let me know.

I showed a few of the 1/72 scale planes with my 1/64 scale train layout in some earlier posts, but did not talk about them much.

   As "airplanes" entered the subject line, I thought "that leaves me out."  Then I looked around and saw two that kind of met the classification.  So here they are:

a pewter Wright Brothers 'Flyer' from the other end of North Carolina at Kitty Hawk, just a little thing, about 3 inches at the wings

The other hangs over my Tootsie Toys, just as Tootsie designed it to do.  Sorry about the Marx cowboys shooting up the scene.

That's it for me and flying apparatus.  I promise!

All my aircraft models are 1:200 scale but there is one for virtually every commercial aircraft from the DC2 to 737 Max, including Boeing, Lockheed,  Douglas,  and English aircraft such as the Arvo York, Bristol Britannia, Vickers Viscount,  BAE146, etc.  43 in total.   Sorry they do not photograph well in their case.

I have dozens also, mainly 1/72 and smaller. I'd love to see aircraft but I would like to make a suggestion. Place them in the 1:64 Scale & Smaller area unless the model is 1/48 scale or larger.. They belong there and will stay on the front page longer. Forum 43 gets so much traffic that posts quickly disappear. Many members rarely look past the front page

 The Mosquito, one of my favourites.

@david-green I agree with David, which is why I tried to limit my post to the 1/48 Hallmarks.

@david-green

Forum 43 gets so much traffic that posts quickly disappear. Many members rarely look past the front page

This is a very morning oriented group and east coast time zone forum so posts late in the day are often overlooked.   Always good to glance at the second page of posts.

Nice to see airplanes enthusiasts posting their pictures. Contrary to some comments,  I don't see anything wrong by showing them here so I encourage others to do so.

I have several diecast 1/48 scale World War 2 fighter planes in 1/48 scale.  The first two I plan to show are a pair of P-40s, produced by Carousel1 in the early 2000's.  Some of you might associate Carousel1 with 1/18 scale race cars from the 1990's and early 2000's. However, they branched out to do both 1/48 scale World War 1 and 2 aircraft.  I purchased the WW2 ones.  They made five different WW2 aircraft, each offered in multiple color schemes. The P-40 was known by multiple names.  In US service it was commonly called Warhawk. Other names were Tomahawk and Kittyhawk, used by other countries flying it, such as UK and USSR.

This model represents the early version identified as either the P-40B or P-40C.  Externally, they were almost identical, but the C had some improvements, such as self-sealing fuel tanks.  Like many diecast fighter planes, each model represents the plane flown by a specific pilot at a specific time.  The first two photos show a plane in the markings of the American Volunteer Group in China, more commonly known as the Flying Tigers.  The specific plane was assigned to Gregory Boyington, who later became famous as head of VMF-214 the Black Sheep Squadron.  The third and fourth photos represent the plane flown by George Welch on December 7, 1941 in Hawaii.  George, and another pilot Ken Taylor, had their planes at Haleiwa, a smaller field about 16 miles from main fighter base at Wheeler Field.  After calling Haleiwa to get their planes ready, they raced there in Taylor's 1941 Buick.  They then took off to battle attacking planes.  If you ever saw the movie "Tora, Tora, Tora", you will see this.

Enjoy the photos.

Thank you Ed. Nice post well written and a pair of interesting historic aircraft.

Posted by: @nickies

I will post pictures soon if anybody is interested.

Please!

I place airplanes in my displays at times and here are a few. I posted this one recently, they are hiding behind Packard Row.

There are eight of these evolutionary shelves and will post closeups one of these days. Each 1/48th scale plane matches the cars' era.

An eclectic scale group but love that 1/48th Junkers. PS there is an old

1/72nd WW1 DH4 on the service station that I built maybe 60 yrs ago.

One more, a little big at 1/32nd scale but they hang out in my rooms sky away from the smaller 1/43rds.

@john-quilter 

Planes really do take up space and your collection offers proof, but that is a very nice group.