Airplanes ??????

@d-m-holcombe 

Loving the Los Angeles and the cowboys too. Fun! The Wright Flyer reminded me of mine on a book shelf, so here is a PIC including a Bleriot mono plane (if memory serves).

On the shelf above them was a little Bugatti diorama being buzzed by a 1/72nd F16. Fun!

@stewil 

Matching the planes with the car’s era is a nice idea. What is the 1/33 scale plane?

Ed and Steve, Thank you for posting these nice pictures of your airplane collections. 

@ed-davis 

Hi Ed, it is a 1914 Jeannin Stahltaube 1/32 scale by Wingnut Wings  that I built, 1 of 10 or so. All German aircraft that are chasing Snoopy in his Sopwith Camel flying into the sunset (poster). I have just one left to build to in order to complete the conga line dancing across my sky.

Here is a wooden model of a Vaught O3U Corsair given to my late father by the manufacturer, circa 1936 as my father flew this type plane off the cruiser USS Augusta (CA-31) for three years on the China station under the command of Chester Nimitz.  These were equipped for catapult off the cruiser but landed in the water to be hoisted aboard for the next flight.  The model is a bit crude but definitely a family keepsake for anyone into miniatures.  Here is a You Tube navy training video in which my father was the flight instructor at Pensacola Florida circa 1937.

What a great keepsake that video must be for you!

This was in a friend's basement, and he gifted it to me. It's rough, but I love it. 

I saw a perfect one at Owl's Head Transportation Museum in Maine that really looked amazing.

 DC6 I think.

I have a couple no-frills diecast pieces that I pass off as 1/24 through use of a lopsided perspective.....and just today,I bought an actual 1/24 piece 🙂 

@john-quilter 

Awesome film John, Thank you.

Regarding airplanes, there's a March 9th posting on the FB Goldvarg Collection Model Cars Group showing a diorama of the stairway truck pulling up to a cutaway front end of an airliner. Described as work in progress. 

@mark-lampariello 

Mark, I am not a FB user. Is it possible to post an image of the diorama here?

@mark-lampariello I saw that one, it was well done. One could imagine it was for training an operator of the truck for lining it up to the cabin door.

Okay, I confess that I bumped into an airplane (?) recently, a Tootsietoy from a while back, looked at it for a while, and stuck it on the 'bay this afternoon.  Talk about a project!  It took me a few minutes to identify these remains.  Anyone?

@d-m-holcombe 

It looks like an auto-gyro.

Here's two dioramas I built over a few years. I have to move them out of a condo I have to sell and they won't fit through either the door or windows.