Hello Woodsy
If you liked the Man in Space here is the last model in the book.
It's a display model and reflects the worst of 50's wood models. To explain:
Maybe 1954 or so I was taken to the cinema and saw a colourful pirate movie. I was so thrilled by the galleon models that for the next birthday I was given a Keil Kraft Wood Kit.
My memory may be slightly off but there was a brick sized block of balsa wood, a small sheet of balsa and some wooden dowels for masts. Carve your own hull! I think the construction instructions were follow the illustration on the box lid.
Talk about basics. On seeing how disappointed I was the 'kit' was returned and I became the proud owner of one of the first AIRFIX plastic kits, either The Revenge or The Mayflower. It was only about 4" long but brilliant as my parents could glue it together.
The Inter Planetary Spaceliner is another start with a brick of balsa wood and whittle.
Regards,
Terranova47
NYC
I had this book! I think I may have built one of the Jetex powered line-runners and I certainly used the catapault hook style on a balsa dyno-soar model I made (It flew beautifully, too -until it met the fate of all airbourne models!)
ReplyDeleteI've just posted more from this book Lewis courtesy of Terranova. It comes before this post. A dyna-soar! Wow! That's Project SWORD!
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