Bristol Racer Type 72
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80 11 February 2023, 13:04
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Watching too 😉 (this is quite well engineered kit - I've assembled it some time ago. Pay attention to the v-shaped undercarriage "legs" as these are "handed" for left and right side, and the actuators must be attached to the self-made "longerons" inside the openings the fuselage - this is not quite well shown in the instruction)
11 February 2023, 16:55
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thx's gents for joining.
@Robert - thank you for the heads up - already thought that this could get tricky. I will pay specíal attention.
12 February 2023, 09:21
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This looks interesting.
(At first I thought you were building an egg plane.)
12 February 2023, 10:19
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With this here Bristol and two Bugatti racers (all intended for the Coupe Deutsch de la Meurthe...) on the news feed these days, one can almost feel such topics are gathering momentum! 👍
12 February 2023, 13:01
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THx guys for leaving your comments,.... it was more the racer topic than the egg plane appearance that caught my attention 🙂
I even did not think about egg until gorby brought this up 🙂 ...it seems the first ever build egg plane routes back to 1927
14 February 2023, 07:31
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Hello Jürgen, that's an interesting thing. Without the original photo, I would have thought it was a caricature of an airplane.
I'm looking forward to the finished model.
17 February 2023, 14:54
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@S M - it is PA (super glue). Works perfect as long as only "mirco" drops are used as the yarn is curling when PA is used too much.
18 February 2023, 10:17
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@Stefan - Hi, nice to have you here. Interesting plane - isn't it? Looking forward too to to put this thing on the shelf.
18 February 2023, 10:20
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Photo 11 makes it look as though it's just escaped a chain gang in an ol' black n' white film
24 February 2023, 20:40
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@Matthew A - it alomost like a "lookalike"-contest: imdb.com/title/tt002..108672/?ref_=tt_md_3
25 February 2023, 11:49
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It hardly flew in fact, Michael 😉 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bristol_Racer
25 February 2023, 22:08
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Thx for your comments. And yes, this type of aircraft was not really a succes. But its looking kind of......special (!?)
4 March 2023, 12:01
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Thank you bughunter for leaving a comment! I'm happy you like it. - grüsse
2 April 2023, 16:06
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Wow! A plane that I thought would feature on "catch the pigeon"…a real beauty. Superbly done!!
2 April 2023, 18:36
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Really interesting plane, especially the spinner that looks like a sports car wheel rim. 🙂
I'm sure it will be a great addition to your collection. 👍
2 April 2023, 18:55
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Thank you @all for your nice comments of approval and all your likes! I did not expect that this chubby plane will get this amount of attention - thx.
4 April 2023, 10:16
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Ah - thx for the flowers and the reminder! cheers bughunter (see you in ac couple weeks 👍 )
3 September 2023, 06:30
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I had the opportunity to see this gem with my own eyes at the model building fair in Ried. What a beautiful little piece! I was really surprised how big or rather small this Bristol is in reality.
And it was a pleasure to meet the builder in person - thank you very much!
16 October 2023, 06:55