Curtiss Jenny barnstormer- Olimp from Ukraine 1/72nd - Lillian Boyer

 

 

A contemporary card:

A wonderful little kit from Olimp in Ukraine. The Curtiss Jenny is so famous that hardly needs any introduction. Olimp's rendition is absolutely charming, a pleasure to work with, and has a nice level of detail. They released different boxings to cover a number of sub-types, but they seem to be mostly sold out now. In fact, several fellow modelers wrote to tell me that they have this kit, so it seemed to have sold well.

The step-by-step building article is here, perhaps useful to read if you have the kit, as it needs a couple of touches.

https://wingsofintent.blogspot.com/2022/03/civil-curtiss-jenny-olimp-models-from.html

This was such a pleasant build, the plastic is fantastic, the fit good, the parts very easily removed from the sprues and promptly cleaned up, and you get some spares as several versions are included in the trees. How I wish that the rule for short-run kits were something like this. Such pity that Olimp didn't seem to pursue the injected plastic market and concentrated on resin.

Lillian Boyer's plane was chosen as the subject for this build, in the common post WWI war role of barnstormer. You can see clips of her hair-raising stunts in the building article following the link given above.

My thanks to friend and fellow unmodeler Christos Psarras and his unsinkable dogs, Coochie and Smoochee, for providing the decals for this project.

And since we are in the Ukraine subject, let's hope that the grip of the despicable wannabe dictator -pals with the orange ignorant clown we had here- is released from this country, so its people can continue to live free and in peace.

Practicing the routine on land with the pilot: