Canon 'Spirit of St Louis'

Gallery Article by Greg Kerry (Chinagreg) on Jan 23 2015

 

      

This is something different: it's not plastic. Trawling around on the web recently I found that there are several paper/card model templates available for free download. This particular one came from the Canon photocopier website. It has other interesting stuff like a Macchi Schneider Trophy seaplane and quite a few airliners (as well as non-flying items).

 

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With its ribs and bulkheads construction, it's more like a balsa and tissue model construction - a bit of a contrast to plastic kits. I didn't take it too seriously. Printing the design out on normal copying paper was a mistake though - you really do need something a bit thicker. Still, it was a good therapeutic exercise.

Now I have a Gee Bee racer to try next and I see there are a few airships available too. Maybe I'll try those over the Xmas holidays.

Greg Kerry

Photos and text © by Greg Kerry