Amodel 1/72nd Taylor JT-1

 

The Taylor JT-1 is a cute little British homebuilt touring-sports plane of harmonious lines and graceful proportions. Many still fly today.

Amodel and manufacturers like SBS, KP, Avis, AVIModels, MikroMir, Dekno, Dora Wings and others, are to be congratulated for contributing to, and enriching the hobby scene with attractive kits of civil machines in a variety of types, from sport planes to passenger carriers, to cargo transports to racers, following in the steps of pioneering kit manufacturers of civil planes that belong to what it's called the "cottage industry", like Khee-Kha Art Products, 72Topia, and old names like Williams Brothers and others, that offered and still offer appealing civil subjects for modelers that prefer a peaceful modeling universe to represent, inhabit and share.

I see this as an encouraging sign of a re-emerging modeling field that speaks of glamour, challenge, progress, adventure, tourism, records, and fun.

The last additions on this path that crossed my building board are two minute and cute kits of British homebuilt sport planes, the Taylor JT-1 from the late 50s and the more modern JT-2 Titch from the late 60s. Many still fly today and are a pretty sight at airfields, being small in size but big in charm.

For the step-by-step building post please go here:

https://wingsofintent.blogspot.com/2021/01/taylor-jt-1-and-jt-2-amodel-172nd.html

The JT-1 was built more or less out of the box, using the kit's decals and giving it a few touches like replacing the exhausts and other small parts with fabricated items, and adding the cylinder intakes, an air vent, antenna, fuel gauge, and P.E. horns and control cables. The windshield, too thick, was replaced by a home-made vac part.

Being a British plane, I photographed the model for some of the images in suitable half-gloomy weather! 

Size comparison (same scale) with a Seversky racer: