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How about a trackside Airfield?

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How about a trackside Airfield?
Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, April 5, 2006 8:22 PM
Wha'cha say...any ideas if I were to build some sort of Air Base next to the TRACK in the Micaela Valley?
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Posted by Capt Bob Johnson on Wednesday, April 5, 2006 8:29 PM
You got any idea of the real estate it would take to do that in scale???? Instead why don't you just call the rest of the front lawn a grass airstrip??? Maybe set mower a hair lower for that one swath down the middle of the yard?
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Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, April 5, 2006 9:05 PM
QUOTE: Originally posted by Capt Carrales

Wha'cha say...any ideas if I were to build some sort of Air Base next to the TRACK in the Micaela Valley?


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Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, April 5, 2006 9:07 PM
The reason I asked is because I saw some old style USAAF Mustangs at a hobby shop that are relative in scale.

I wouldn't build a whoe airfield, merely a small auxiliary landing strip. Iwas even thinking about making a model of myself out of some earthen wear clay.
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Posted by ttrigg on Wednesday, April 5, 2006 11:12 PM
Cappy;

Wal~Mart has some WWII aircraft 1:28 in the $30 dollar range. As for Rosebud Falls? Totally out of the question (remember in my time frame the Wright Bro's have not yet gone to Kitty Hawk!)

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Posted by John Busby on Thursday, April 6, 2006 12:44 AM
Hi Major C
How about a wind sock a nissan hut( one of those 1/2 round tin things) with an arial next to it and a Sopwith Cammel type plane for a crop dusting operation.
Unless your planning on using Harrier jump jets or some weird escapee from area 51.
You are going to be pushing it to get an airfield of any type into the typical household block.
You could always paint it as a backscene a la indoor model railroads on pannels mounted on the fence[:D] could be a job for the art dept[swg]
That done with a loading dock and tank farm you could then run airforce specials along the railroad.
And any one asks you can say if "I told you what is in them I would have to kill you"[swg]
regards John Busby
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Posted by Puckdropper on Thursday, April 6, 2006 10:07 AM
Well, it's too far away from April 1st, so we'll just back date this post/thread until then.

What you need is a long flat car and a long stretch of track. The flatcar (and train) is accellerated to just below air speed at the point of landing, and the plane then lands on the flat car. With practice, you can get two planes on a car. I've seen it done!
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Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, April 6, 2006 4:15 PM
Hi CC:

Watts Train Shop has an air strip right down the middle of their indoor layout. Looks pretty good. They have their planes at half price (I think) too.

Have Fun: Jeff [8D]
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Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, April 6, 2006 6:02 PM
I have a 1:32 scale bi-plane I am going to place some how around the train tracks - as it would be flying for looks. I don't have enough room for any type of airfield.


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Posted by monkeyman2 on Thursday, April 6, 2006 6:52 PM
Don't forget about a RC plane or Helicopter to land and take off there! [:P]
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Posted by vsmith on Friday, April 7, 2006 10:38 AM
You could always use it for one of these...

http://1stclass.mylargescale.com/MikeRogers//f-14.wmv

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Posted by CandCRR on Friday, April 7, 2006 11:34 AM
There is a community near my Mother-in-law place in Florida were all the streets are designed for planes and cars. The roads lead to a local airport. The street signs are really low so wings can clear them amd the roads are wide. All the houses have a 2 car one plane garage. This I think would be fairly easy to model with some creative selective perspective.

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Posted by FJ and G on Friday, April 7, 2006 12:13 PM
Monkeyman,

You stole the words out of my mouth. Who needs a static model when you can go R/C?

Also, why not build a slow stream and have some R/C barges or steamboats tooling around as well; perhaps picking up trackside cargo at the pier.
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Posted by Anonymous on Friday, April 7, 2006 4:18 PM
vsmith, that video was astounding. Is it really real? How is a jet r/c controlled?

A nephew and two of his friends are building an r/c controlled B17, wing span 138 inches, powered by four engines 'borrowed' from Sears weed eaters. And I thought THEY needed the men in the white coats!

They've been at it for over two years (family men - get only one night off a week to work on it!). I figure it scales out to about 1:10 or maybe 1:9; much much too large for G.

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Posted by vsmith on Friday, April 7, 2006 5:02 PM
QUOTE: Originally posted by artschlosser

vsmith, that video was astounding. Is it really real? How is a jet r/c controlled?

A nephew and two of his friends are building an r/c controlled B17, wing span 138 inches, powered by four engines 'borrowed' from Sears weed eaters. And I thought THEY needed the men in the white coats!

They've been at it for over two years (family men - get only one night off a week to work on it!). I figure it scales out to about 1:10 or maybe 1:9; much much too large for G.

Art


Heres the link to the original thread, theres a list of suplliers they used for building it.
http://www.mylargescale.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=37994
[8D]

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Posted by Anonymous on Friday, April 7, 2006 7:08 PM
I don't have the room; a helipad maybe?


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Posted by grandpopswalt on Friday, April 7, 2006 11:57 PM
Major Cappy,

I think you've hit upon a good idea. Model just a portion of an airfield, say the hanger area. Then you could put in a spur leading to a receiving warehouse and adjacent hanger where all kinds of aeronautical goodies could be displayed.

And as for that earthen model of yourself, you could point to it and tell people "there's a likeness of major Carrales, he has feet of clay".

Walt
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Posted by Anonymous on Monday, April 10, 2006 7:06 PM
My wife and I visited a model village (about 1 acre) at Godspell on the Isle of Wight just off the southwestern coast of England. The buildings are about 1:15, but some of the scenes are about 1:20. It had a small airfield composed of a hanger (about 14" x 24"), a concrete pad beside the hanger with three brightly colored biplanes, and a grass strip extending from the hanger pad. I have a picture. It also has a boy scout campout, a soccer field, and model villages that would blow you away, and dozens of other scenes. It has thousands of humorous characters in action poses. It's a trip.
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Posted by Anonymous on Monday, April 10, 2006 8:35 PM
QUOTE: Originally posted by grandpopswalt

Major Cappy,

I think you've hit upon a good idea. Model just a portion of an airfield, say the hanger area. Then you could put in a spur leading to a receiving warehouse and adjacent hanger where all kinds of aeronautical goodies could be displayed.

And as for that earthen model of yourself, you could point to it and tell people "there's a likeness of major Carrales, he has feet of clay".

Walt


Recently I attended a Search and Rescue Exercise in Victoria, Texas (from whence the photo below was snapped), the Regional Airport there was once an Airforce Base.

There once also once a spur of the type you mentioned, but only a few crossing signs and some rails embedded in the road remain. Even the main line it attached to is history.

Give me some time and I think I can swing something...lots of time.

I should like to try to make that figure.

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Posted by Tom The Brat on Tuesday, April 11, 2006 3:26 PM
Why not? We're all nuts anyhow[:-,]
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Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, April 11, 2006 4:44 PM
My brother was a co-pilot on a Martin B-26 Marauder during the final days of WWII so I put together a Revell 1:48 model for his birthday. Would work nice in O gauge but that thing would have dwarfed an old Lionel engine; it was NOT small.
A 1:24 model would be twice as big. use up 8 times the volume and 4 times the real estate; of course, it never hurts to think big.
Art

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