Spirit of St Louis

Jan 6, 2016

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This was an easy kit, about 20 parts total, and only the one “color”.

The Subject

The Spirit of St Louis — what more can be said? Charles Lindbergh flew her from New York to Paris on May 20-21st 1927 non-stop to be the first to cross the Atlantic Ocean in an aircraft non-stop.

The Model

This is the very old Hawk kit, in 1/72nd scale (-ish) re-released by Testers back in the ’90’s. The kit had very little flash, and the decals were quite good.

She went together very easily, only a minor bit of filler where some obvious seams were on top, and I ensured the clear bits where faired in properly.

Summary

I’ve always wanted this icon of a subject on my shelf but have put off actually building it until in 2015 the club decided a civilian theme build. Other than a DC-3, this was it…

Thanks for looking…

Comments

2 responses to “Spirit of St Louis”

FalkeEins

January 15, 2016

looks neat! ..something different for the shelf. I've just bought the new RS models kit of this one – you can do it in the Sky blue/red scheme it wore in Japan!

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FalkeEins

January 15, 2016

looks neat! ..something different for the shelf. I've just bought the new RS models kit of this one – you can do it in the Sky blue/red scheme it wore in Japan!

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