Search results

Seventy Five years ago a couple of USAAF Veteran pilots were having a discussion about the new Piper Super Cruiser aircraft. The PA-12 Super Cruiser was developed from the J-3 Cub, but with a wider fuselage and a 100 HP engine (the basic J-3 had 65 HP). It also had much greater fuel capacity and...

I was in the USAF during the latter half of the 1970's just post Vietnam conflict. Like most of the people in the Air Force, I am not a pilot, but my job was critical to the mission: I loaded weapons onto the aircraft. Without weapons the Air Force is just a bad airlines! To lift heavy...

Hello everyone! I have been an inactive member of this forum for quite a while. I see that I joined in 2005. Over time I started having troubles with pain in my hands when handling an X-Acto knife, and it was that pain that caused me to wander away from this hobby. I like to design models, but...

I have been tinkering with the DeHavilland Turbo Otter model and come up with a few new liveries... I hope to have these all published within the next few weeks. Thus far we have only released the Kenmore Air and Santa Claus versions. I have two Harbour Air models, an Air Saguanay model, and...

Since the beginning of Design Group Alpha we have published a free Christmas model every year. This year the model is a DHC-3T DeHavilland Turbo Otter in Santa Claus´ North Pole Air Force livery. The model is being distributed for free from www.ecardmodels.com <-click this link for the model...

The DeHavilland Beaver was the first model that I designed from scratch. I had done some small design work for Chip at Fiddlers Green and I was influenced by Chip´s design standards. Consequently, the struts on the Beaver model are 2-dimensional and intended to be laminated for strength...

Check out the new free Halloween gift at www.ecardmodels.com Designed by Guido and built by Tim:

Here are a few pictures of my latest model - a 1:48 scale DeHavilland Canada Otter: I still have a few minor pieces to glue on and all the glue was not yet dry when I took these pictures. This model, along with several other versions will soon be published by Design Group...