Where were we? The wings. The wings had to be completed. And the rest. And I did. Here's the end result, click on 'read the rest of the story' to read the rest of the story.
22 April 2018
McDonnell FH Phantom 1/50 [2]
Well, you didn't have to wait very long for the final report on the Phantom. Because here it is.
Where were we? The wings. The wings had to be completed. And the rest. And I did. Here's the end result, click on 'read the rest of the story' to read the rest of the story.
Where were we? The wings. The wings had to be completed. And the rest. And I did. Here's the end result, click on 'read the rest of the story' to read the rest of the story.
19 April 2018
McDonnell FH Phantom 1/50
The McDonnell FH Phantom was one of the first operational American jet planes, designed especially for the Navy. It was small and light, much smaller and lighter than for example the F4U Corsair. It had two Westinghouse jet engines that were housed in the wing roots. It became operational just a little too late to fight along in WW2 and it very quickly was taken over by better designed, better performing jets. There only were 62 Phantoms built. Its successor, the Banshee, looked a lot like the Phantom but was more powerful and a bit larger. Later, in the mid-fifties, McDonnell reused the Phantom’s name for the much more famous but really ugly jet fighter with the crooked nose, the weird tail wing anhedral and the cranked wingtips.
Fellow Dutchie Gerard
Methorst has made a lot of very pretty and often unique model designs
and I have started to build his FH Phantom. So, the original one. I guess there will be more to follow in
the coming week, but here is the build story and the first batch of pictures I'd like to share.
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| The 1946 Phantom. (photo: Wikipedia) |
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| The 1954 Phantom II With lenghtened nose and a very necessary cannon below. (photo: Wikipedia) |
05 April 2018
Slow moments in fast times.
Yeah, I know.
It is going slow here on the blog. I have got a lot of other things to do. I am building now and then, but it is not worthy enough to show, I think. It just serves as a means to clear my mind of things once in a while. Also, I have been creative in some other ways. We have been busy preparing for displaying our three architecture documentaries we made last year. The last two are shown on exhibitions this spring and all three are shown in the local cinema as part of the activities around Architecture Day. For you Dutchies, the trailers are here, here and here. Sorry, non-dutchies, there is no subtitling available. But they still are quite nice to watch. (There is another architecture movie we made and that one indeed has English subtitles. The trailer of that one is here.)
All in all, ther has been just a few moments I could cut and glue paper. Hopefully soon there wil be more time to thoroughly get back into paper model building. I really do hope so. I still have a lot of models I want to build. I want to do a final Block 5 Falcon9 and also the F9Heavy. There's a McD Phantom 1 designed by Gerard Methorst waiting at my cutting mat. I want to do the top of that darned N1 rocket. I would like to make Nando's Collier rocket, Maxim's Myasishchev M55, and there is more.
I will get to them. That is a promise. Not as much to you all but to myself.
Stay tuned. Enjoy the background noise. see you soon.
--PK
It is going slow here on the blog. I have got a lot of other things to do. I am building now and then, but it is not worthy enough to show, I think. It just serves as a means to clear my mind of things once in a while. Also, I have been creative in some other ways. We have been busy preparing for displaying our three architecture documentaries we made last year. The last two are shown on exhibitions this spring and all three are shown in the local cinema as part of the activities around Architecture Day. For you Dutchies, the trailers are here, here and here. Sorry, non-dutchies, there is no subtitling available. But they still are quite nice to watch. (There is another architecture movie we made and that one indeed has English subtitles. The trailer of that one is here.)
All in all, ther has been just a few moments I could cut and glue paper. Hopefully soon there wil be more time to thoroughly get back into paper model building. I really do hope so. I still have a lot of models I want to build. I want to do a final Block 5 Falcon9 and also the F9Heavy. There's a McD Phantom 1 designed by Gerard Methorst waiting at my cutting mat. I want to do the top of that darned N1 rocket. I would like to make Nando's Collier rocket, Maxim's Myasishchev M55, and there is more.
I will get to them. That is a promise. Not as much to you all but to myself.
Stay tuned. Enjoy the background noise. see you soon.
--PK
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