American (Shelton) AG-4 Crusader - Avis, 1/72nd scale - completed

 

 (If you would like to see the step-by-step assembly post, please go here:

https://wingsofintent.blogspot.com/2018/07/american-shelton-gyro-ag-4-crusader.html

Once again congratulations to Avis for releasing this fantastic, futuristic plane of the Golden Age of aviation. Not only a civil subject to break the tiring routine of the endless parade of drab and gloomy military machines, but a plane with a revolutionary design and a very appealing shape.

The kit itself requires a bit of cleaning and some prodding here and there, nothing extraordinary, though, and something we modelers are used to with these kits of smaller manufacturers.
I replaced the kit's nose decals (that were inaccurate) with Arctic Decals items (thanks, Mika!)

I am pleased beyond words (although I had nothing to do with it) that a subject that I scratched many years ago (see here in this link, and photographs of the two models bellow):

 https://wingsofintent.blogspot.com/2014/07/scratch-built-172-american-shelton-ag-4.html

for sheer love of the machine, is now available to the modelers in the form of a fairly detailed, affordable kit.

So here it is a plane that may have looked like a space ship in its time, when biplanes were aplenty on the skies.

 Shelton, the designer, was no doubt a refined visionary, unfortunately hindered by the financial doldrums of his time. He created a memorable plane that whispered "streamline" to the ears of the incredulous bystanders.