For many years I was hot and heavy into paper/cardboard models but in all that time only ended up with one airplane.
Here's a nice Boeing 707 Cheerios offered up back in the '60s. I scanned the artwork, printed it out on heavy cardstock, then made my own version. Hope you like it.
Cheers
Ed Berg
Las Vegas
Very nice, and certainly something different for the collection.
ReplyDeleteThanx Paul! I have quite an extensive collection of toy airplanes: plastic and tin-litho. This is to-date my only paper airplane.
DeleteLovely card airplane Ed! Looks like fun!
ReplyDeleteThanx Woodsy - this was a fun little build.
DeleteGreat to see that art getting a second life! My immediate thought was of the graphic artist hunched over a drafting table who had to churn out the original illustrations!
ReplyDeleteTell me, Ed. Once you'd resurrected this 50 year old bird, did you put a piece of thread in the port wing and fly it as instructed by the side panel?
ReplyDeleteNo, instead I put a small paper clip on the nose and flung into the air! I get about 10ft worth of flight before the inevitable nose dive into the ground!
DeleteLovely work Ed. very nostalgic. There are little balsa planes in paper sachets in all Museum and stately home shops here in Blighty, all part of the history and nostalgia boom.
ReplyDeleteThanx Woodsy! I haven't seen one of those balsa gliders in many a moon! (okay, but then again, I haven't looked for them either LOL)
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