My Scratchbuilt 1/24 AlbatrosD5a

[pzrwest]

Here are some pics of a scratchbuilt 1/24th scale Albatros D5a I made some years ago. I found
a set of original plans for the AlbatrosD5a in the back of the book published by the Smithsonian.
I had the plans photostated then scaled up for 1/24th scale. The fuselage is made of basswood
and has been handcarved and hollowed out. The cowling, spinner, and main wings are vacuformed
.030 sheet styrene over carved wooden plugs on a homemade vacuformer. The prop is hand
carved from laminated thin hardwood that I gleened from some old 1 quart wooden berry boxes.
The guns are constructed from styrene and consist of over 30 pieces each. The engine is also
scratchbuilt from styrene. The rubber tires are "O" rings. It has a complete cockpit also all
hand made. Was a very pleasent task constructing this one of a kind scale model of a great
aircraft one of my favorites

[Kevin1261]

Very nice aircraft...

[Federico Perez]

Very impresive project, I like it a lot

[CollectRussia]

A work of art.

[Scott C.]

Wow - well done!!

Scott

[Jeff V]

Beautiful job! best wishes,
jeff

[pzrwest]

Thank you very much for the kind words. Funny thing I get the most enjoyment out of building the model... once it's finished they usually just wind up as dust collectors. A good friend of mine saw it and had to have it. Now it resides in a glass enclosed case in his home/office along with a great number of my other models. He said if he was to get a shrink ray gun he could shrink himself and almost start it uop and fly away in it .... lol

[BenVK]

I was just going to offer to buy it! it's simple wonderful, I love it. Have you any others that are just "collecting dust" ?

[Erich B.]

That's fabulous! What a beautiful creation.
I'm sure that any other 'dust catchers' you might have would sell in seconds here!
Thanks for sharing the images.
Erich

[pzrwest]

Well unfortunately my friend has already bought all my dust collectors except for some 1/16th scale verlinden figures and a couple female lead figures. he has already spoken for several un-built aircraft kits and and a 1/35 scale resin british tank.
He paid me $300.00 for the AlbatrosD5a

[SurvivingPanzer]

It is building it that is the most interesting. What is the white spot in the fourth from last pic for?