Santos-Dumont Demoiselle 1908

Ulf Petersen
Frank, this model is one of my favourites out of your kitchen as I had the honour to see it live in Wilnsdorf this year.
What you have achieved here is simply a masterpiece!👍
My deepest respect, master of soldering!

Bernhard Schrock
Manchmal greife ich auch zum
Lötkolben und fluche wenn beim Löten an einer Stell drei benachbarte fertige Lötstellen wieder aufgehen. Daher wie Ulf treffend schrieb: Meisterleistung und auch von mir ein gaaaanz großer Respekt. Fand AJP immer schon klasse, hab mich aber nie getraut auch wenn es m.E. der einzige Weg ist, Rippen und Stoff realistisch darzustellen. Hut ab!!!

Ben STONE
Beautiful

bughunter
Thank you all 😄
I should post my soldered Strip downs too. In 1:72 this is more complicated as this AJP Kit.
BTW: Sorry for the duplicate pictures, but I haven't found out yet, how to delete them.

Ulf Petersen
You definitely should, Frank!
You just can't deprive this community of your artworks!

Mathias Carl
Maybe you should show some work-in-Progress Pictures here. Your scratchbuild engine is simply awesome. 👍

Bart Goesaert
that's a rigging party I've luckily missed, but as with your other models... splendid work...

bughunter
Thx! Good idea, I added some pics of the building process, especially for the engine.

Es-haq Khosravi
Great job!!!

Choppa Nutta
gem

Bart Goesaert
superb work, how did you make the linen?

bughunter
The wings of the AJP Kits are PE parts, contains also thin yellow paper. I painted the brass wood brown to avoid the yellow brass shine and covered both sides with this paper as described in manual (it is a bit tricky). I added again some picture to explain.

Bart Goesaert
thx for the info.

Es-haq Khosravi
Wow!

bughunter
If you move with such paper models to exhibitions you have to care for air humidity during transport and show!

Lex Jassies
Chapeau! It's a small gem.

Dave Jones
Wow

Urban Gardini
Fantastic job mate! The pioneers of flight for sure either had big balls or was insane to get up in the sky with contraptions like this!

bughunter
Thank you! The pilots were really cool B) The guide during my build was this picture of the Demoiselle in Le Bourget (full resolution in wikipedia):[img1]

Erik Leijdens
Another impressive build 👍

MRMLA
Really impressive work here Sir! 👍 👍 👍 And You are Great Modeller Magician! No more words, just silently gazing...

bughunter
Thank you very much!

Spanjaard
an absolute masterpiece.

gorby
Nothing short of a work of art – again! I wish I had a tenth of your patience and skill.

Mike Grant
Good grief. Amazing work 👍

bughunter
Mates, thx for your nice words! 😄