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| Third place winner in the Airliner category at CAPCON 2017 on 30 September 2017. |
Sunday, 10 April 2016
BOEING 314 CLIPPER (Airfix)
Several years ago I got it into my head that I needed to build a civilian flying boat. An IPMS Ottawa member was selling the newer Airfix kit (A04172) of the Boeing Clipper in 1/144 scale, and I snapped it up for $10. It then languished for a year before I did basic body work and then destroyed the windows, resulting in having to dig out the clear parts and further damaging the structure between the windows. Eventually I painted it with Alclad aluminium and then added Vallejo green to the hull and after a year added the Vallejo orange to the top. It was a mess and I left it in the lobby of my building for anyone to take. Yesterday, after being gone for more than a year, it showed up in the lobby with a thick layer of dust, so I cleaned it up and fixed a painting error and photographed it for this blog. Do not look too closely, but try and imagine yourself crossing an ocean in the cavernous hull/fuselage in 1939. They were operated by Pan Am Airways and BOAC during and immediately after WWII. None of the twelve built remain, but a single airframe of the very similar Sikorsky version (the S-44A) can be seen in the New England Aviation Museum. Now the model goes back out in the hope someone else will take it.
