Here are a few of my scale models for your interest and I would be happy to answer any questions you may have. They are all built to 1/4 scale except for the Bleriot XI which is 1/3 full size.

WOW- that's great to see such beautifully crafted models!
Nice, you have a wonderful collection!!!!   

Thank you, MiL  Here's a few more...

Hey, these are even better! I like all your planes! 
And the last one is so beautiful! Did you make them?
Is that you in the third picture?

I have no words to describe such beauties. Simply Amazing Collection. Indeed a lot of time, money & effort invested.  

PS- would love to make one for myself someday.

Take Bow Don!! your models are exquisite! we have few scale modelers here on our forum like flyingBoxCar (Capt Manish). You have a nice time here on this forum!

Which engine does the Herbie have installed in that pic ?

Awesome

I wonder if your hands would shiver during the maidens of these Many would take months and years to complete.

I have seen Mike being fairly nervous during the maiden of this :

http://www.rcindia.org/gas-glow-nitro-planes/gloster-gamecock-latest-project/

PS: Make has moved back to the UK ... we miss him at the field

wow!!!!!!!!
super model there! is that actually real rotary radial engine where prop is bolted on to crankcase?

fantastic builds... (vintage models are and have always been my favorites)...this is a pure treat.

Thank you, gentlemen, for the kind words. Yes - it is me in the pic of the Bleriot. No -  it isn't a real radial it's a dummy Anzani engine made from plywood, plastic tubes and perspex hiding a V-twin 360 Laser engine.

The AVRO D model has an OS IL300 4-cylinder inline engine of 50cc.

Here are some close up pix to explain a little more detail...

You might like to see a video of the Bleriot flying recently at a friends flying field.



Thanks again for your comments.
Regards.
Don

One of the best pieces of craftsmanship I have seen in a long time. 

WOW ! Truly amazing !

Simply stunning!

I have a question. Where and how do you store them?

With enormous difficulty sushil_anand !  Plus a lot of understanding from my wife :-))  Having said that, I have only one of them indoors and that's the big Bleriot.  I cannot get that into the shed so it lives in the conservatory.

The others are, of course, largely without their wings fitted but, all the same it's pretty tight in the shed and it's not easy to either move around or, indeed, make a start on a new project! I'll post a pic of the shed when I can find it on my system . Thanks for the kind words!

its superb... sir 

its my dream to build one of these some day..!!

 

Stick with it R/C vish - it will come.  Here's another couple of my Tiger Moth. And one of the shed!

now thats a crowded shed...! i thought my room was crowded ..

You should see the other end!

Maestro...........

Teach us, inspire us.

Refer to your initial post - I don't think I am qualified to ask you any questions after seeing what you have posted!

   Pity that Anwar Sahab doesn't have a smiley which is dumbfounded, ashamed and stupefied.

VC   There's absolutely no reason to be ashamed or any other of those feelings you mention. I am in awe as to the incredible talent that you and your countrymen have in the field of motorcycles! I have a 1955 Matchless 350 'bike and struggle to keep it on the road but continually see the results of the expertise which comes out of India.

A friend of mine has recently taken delivery of a Royal Enfield and has nothing but praise for it's engineering excellence and reliability.  You can do whatever you want to do, with perseverence and, if neccessary, guidance.

If you need guidance in the art of scale modelling - just ask.

You should also visit and/or register with RCSCALEBUILDER.COM to see some of the build logs going on there. In fact I'm here on this site through the good offices of Capt. Manish and his invitation to join him in his thread on the build of the Falcon Models Tiger Moth.  Good luck with your modelling career!

Maestro,

"You can do whatever you want to do, with perseverance" and, may I add, 'Belief'.

I agree with you completely Sir, If you've had the time of going through my previous posts on this forum, I think that would be clearly understood.

However,  I'm still ashamed of the fact that I wouldn't dare send such a beautifully detailed model (if i could EVER build one) into flight.

Chew on that.

Regards.

I have to agree with you, VC, with regard to a maiden flight of a model which has taken two or three years to build.

I always try to arrange with my fellow flyers to have the sky to myself for the first flight. I also think that it's essential to be able to hear the engine for the whole of the flighttime.

I always ask an experienced pilot to stand with me so that we can discuss the flight while it's happening. It can also be useful to be able to theorise why it crashed . 

In this picture of me with the Bleriot with people aroung me, Tony Nijhuis, an LMA inspector, is listening to me saying what I intend to test out during the first flight. Tony is the guy in the dark T shirt.
Here's a video of that flight...

 

 

Doncoe
If i didn't see you and your mates with the models i would have thought they were 1:1 rebuilds with real flyers- any plans for that?

And I hope you are not going to disappear from our forum once Manish has his bird built.
regards,
Avijit

Great going Don!
Just one question, the Fournier is that from Mick Reeves kit?
Good to see people taking interest in scale 

Avijit. Kind words, indeed. Thank you. No I wont go! You may well have to prise me away 

Manish.  It's good to be here! Yes, the Fournier is a Mick Reeves kit. He still does them and has recently started to sell the retract unit to suit. I had, and am still having, problems with my home-built unit which collapses every now and again. It's powered by a very old OS FS60 foure-stroke engine which only just gets it off the ground. Here's a video of it's maiden flight. The CG is too far forward and made rolls a bit hairy. At least, I think that the forward CG was the problem  .

 

Shame about the camera failure!

Superb Don, yeah! I have been eyeing the kit from Mick for some time, but the prospect of shipping puts me off everytime. May be some day....
That old engine does pull your Fournier off the ground in a very scale manner. And loved the fly by.   

The Mick Reeves kit for the Fournier is quite a bargain at £75 (providing you can get it past the resident Chancellor  ) which could be considered as off-setting the postage cost. A thought for the future, perhaps. Just don't tell her that I said so.

As I mistakenly posted pix of the DH82A's fuselage on the RCSB site I thought that I ought to let your fans see it on this iste. So here they are...

The fuselage nearest the camera is that of my own design DH60 Cirrus Moth which I'm build alongside the the Falcon Tiger Moth.
It'll be powered by an OS IL300 engine.

2x OS IL 300  
Don did you break a bank?? or let me know if there are any openings where you work

This is just not fair, to post such Drooling stuff on a public forum, I just changed my third Key board, and fourth one is already flooding.

These are real things sir. No body can deny that.

Out of Tiger moth, Se5a, and Bleriot, French made Bleriot XI (of course I am talking about the one made by Louis) is my favorite, First one to cross the English Channel.

Keep on coming, I do not mind changing keyboards.

Nice to see another scratch/Kit builder around Don.
Kits are much rare in India than ARF/RTF. So I took up converting PDF/DXF plans for Laser cutting and already have AMP Master and Katana EP Plan cut. AMP Master fuse is half ready.
One small question. What you prefer to use for joining the spruce bracing/caging of the fuse ? CA or the white PVA adhesive for wood ? I am using silver pine wood for longeron and fuse caging and worried about the bonding of fuse structure as it would carry all the load while flying or on the ground (and landing stress).
 

ujjwaana. I use PVA wood glue for spruce. When it comes to balsawood, wing ribs to spruce spars, balsa formers to spruce longerons, I prefer SuperPhatic.

I avoid those 5-minute epoxies for plywood engine and undercarriage mounts. They just don't penetrate the wood sufficiently. In my opinion. I hope that helps & thanks for your interest & posting.

Manish. I have only one OS IL300 but they are mounted simply with just 4 x 4mm bolts so are easy to transfer from one plane to another with a bit of for-planning the access.
Here's a close up of the engine on a test rig...

Wow! beautiful engine Flyingboxcar should have this in his collection.

Learnt something today... the OS IL300 seems to be one of those Futaba 14MZs of the engine world !

Gorgeous !

Anwar, the OS IL 300 is specially designed to look like a Gypsy Major of yore, if you would notice even the exhaust is towards the opposite side of normal minautre hobby engine. This puts the exhaust stacks on scale side.
The result is that when fitted to a period DH design they look like a minautre Gypsy Major in a minautre Moth.

I've just come across this picture of the AVRO 'D'. It was taken by the editor of the RC Model Flyer magazine at a contest I entered a couple of years ago.  I landed quite heavily and had to re-build  the undercarriage. It's now ready for flying again and will be entered into a competition in two weeks time.

Don, that pic is so very atmospheric!

Sad news about the AVRO "D", I'm afraid    I flew her at Old Warden Scale contest a couple of weeks ago and won the top award for "The Best RC Model" but soon after take of and going around the circuit for the third time, the wind took hold and I was unable to prevent an incipient stall.

She span in from fifty feet or so and ended up in a heap.

That's modelling for you. On with the next build   

Don, you shouldn't have posted that last picture. It is heartbreaking. Were you able to revive her? Even at the cost of telling a lie, please say, "Yes".

Regretably, no. It was damaged far too much to contemplate repair. I removed the engine, radio and servos, cut out all of the turnbuckles, took the wheels from their axles and dumped the remains into the dustbin. It now lives as part of the landfill of East Sussex, my county of residence. Boo Hoo!

Shattered beyond words. I've nothing left to say.

sad to see this... one of the best models make i have seen in years... but again tomorrow is another day all the best Don... and if you have the plans for this pls share them would love to give it a shot here...

Don,
i like the "on with the next build" part, i lost couple(More than a couple) of my colleagues in crashes, worse than the one above, earlier days, all of us used to get airborne, do some hard flying, and later in the day drink to his soul at the bar. usually ending up noisy and extremely tipsy. next day on, "on with the next build". i'll drink to that

BER is the word Don

Gusty,

A small tribute to your fallen comrades.

VC is right BER = Beyond Economical Repairs
Had one today with my Adrenaline. Took  the model to the field, brought it back in a small poly bag (all the usefull bits extracted out and the airframe dumped) after a nasty vertical impact on the concrete tarmac

Why is this topic becoming dedicated to a graveyard for beautiful models? Breaks my heart. What a great loss Flyingboxcar.