Monogram "box scale" Cessna 180

Gallery Article by Chris Parsons on Dec 28 2015

 

      

This model was inspired and built using my own archive photo's, granted, they were blurry and shot in B/W with a cartridge 126 camera when I was about 14 years old. The prototype wore Athabaska Airways livery (by livery I mean it had a sticker on the door reading "Athabaska Airways") I used some imagination to come up with the color as I seem to remember it being red...coulda been blue? 

I modified the cabin, roof top, fin, wing tips, flaps...etc. etc. many parts and things got changed along during progress of the model. I wanted the model to be finished looking like it had just touched the water during a landing cycle. It therefore needed a pilot, I used one of the kit supplied figures performing the required surgery to have him handling the throttle and yoke. After finishing and painting he kind of resembled a Buddy Holly look alike to me.

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All fuselage colors and stripes were applied with Tamiya acrylics, the floats were finished with Alclad Aluminum. A minimum of weathering was done to the airframe but, the floats got some rough treatment due to the plane being tied to the docks near radial engine powered Otters and Beavers...which hardly leaked any oil at all...

This model was built using much the same method as my previously submitted Cessna 185 float plane with the biggest difference being not adding the larger tail fin fillet and lower stab. strake (some had them some didn't).

Hope you like it.

Chris Parsons

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Photos and text © by Chris Parsons