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Sveti Đorđe - Saint George 1/48
« on: June 19, 2016, 01:49:56 PM »
A long time ago in one magazine I stumbled in this airplane. It was an Serbian build sport aircraft, constructed by a Russian constructor V. Nestorov on demand of industrialist Svetozar Vlajković to promote his factory which was aircraft engine repair shop and aircraft parts manufacturer. The aircraft was constructed in 1926 and had it maiden flight in 1927. It was a small aircraft with only 6 meters wing span and 4.3 meters long fuselage.

To honor the aircraft pioneers of all around the world in my own way I desided to make this aircraft in " old school " scratch-build technique, so no computer,laser cuts etc but only paper, pencil, base materials, modeling knife and lot of sanding.......   

As a first step I scaled down the original drawing from the magazine, transfered on to styrene sheet and the fun and games can begin.

First the fuselage :


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Re: Sveti Đorđe - Saint George 1/48
« Reply #1 on: June 19, 2016, 03:35:47 PM »
Great project! :-ok

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Re: Sveti Đorđe - Saint George 1/48
« Reply #2 on: June 19, 2016, 05:12:19 PM »
Way to go!!!

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Re: Sveti Đorđe - Saint George 1/48
« Reply #3 on: June 19, 2016, 05:31:36 PM »
Scratchbuilding can be so fun!! Great to watch your project!

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Re: Sveti Đorđe - Saint George 1/48
« Reply #4 on: June 19, 2016, 06:14:29 PM »
Maybe you need some details  :-cool  :-wave

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Re: Sveti Đorđe - Saint George 1/48
« Reply #5 on: June 19, 2016, 07:33:38 PM »
Thank you all !

WOW these pictures are more than I ever dreamed of thank you a lot No.1

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Re: Sveti Đorđe - Saint George 1/48
« Reply #6 on: June 19, 2016, 08:41:31 PM »
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Re: Sveti Đorđe - Saint George 1/48
« Reply #7 on: June 30, 2016, 10:41:47 AM »
The process is slow, very slow but I'm having fun....

After joining the sides of the fuselage I made the top surfaces of the fuselage, well it wouldn't go smooth, especially around the cockpit, lots of putty and sanding will be needed to get this straight.....

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Re: Sveti Đorđe - Saint George 1/48
« Reply #8 on: June 30, 2016, 11:04:58 AM »
Courageous...

...And fine work!

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Re: Sveti Đorđe - Saint George 1/48
« Reply #9 on: July 03, 2016, 10:13:08 AM »
The work continues on the fuselage, the start of the nose section

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Re: Sveti Đorđe - Saint George 1/48
« Reply #10 on: July 03, 2016, 11:57:35 AM »
Looks good!

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Re: Sveti Đorđe - Saint George 1/48
« Reply #11 on: July 03, 2016, 04:07:03 PM »
Agree, excellent and it's taking shape quickly!

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Re: Sveti Đorđe - Saint George 1/48
« Reply #12 on: July 09, 2016, 09:20:39 PM »
Thank you all !

Here is some progress, the nose is roughly done, now it has the shape only fine work remains
« Last Edit: July 09, 2016, 09:22:40 PM by modellius »

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Re: Sveti Đorđe - Saint George 1/48
« Reply #13 on: July 10, 2016, 10:53:56 AM »
Well done!

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Re: Sveti Đorđe - Saint George 1/48
« Reply #14 on: July 17, 2016, 02:11:42 PM »
Pleasant Sunday pre-lunch activity  :-wave