Styrene

Styrene

Thursday, July 17, 2014

Scratch-built 1/72 Leigh/AVRO Baby-1920

From the archive (2007):

I know, I know, it looks like a flying Venetian blind. Suffice to say that Mr. Leigh converted an existent Baby airframe in something…quite different.
Being the original about 7.6 meters in span, at 1/72 it is a tiny model. Construction was quite simple, helped by the extensive use of Contrail plastic struts and brass “Strutz”. For the radiator front a left over photoetched part was used and wheels were made of solder coil and punched-out styrene.  Some interior was fancied and the engine louver plates were made of “corrugated” styrene sheet.
The Baby is a cute little bug that will stand out on your display and that you could take to the next club meeting in a matchbox.

Love is blind, and sometimes beauty is also a “blind”.














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