SCRATCH BUILDING AIRPLANES FOR A 1/400 AIRCRAFT CARRIER??

[Thomas Gene Benson]

Any tips or how to's on scratch building 1/400 spitfires or I guess they are called seafires??
Please any ideas greatly appreciated.

Thanks
Thomas

[Greg W]

I did this in 1/192 scale and it should work for you.I took a 3 view drawing and used the top view to cut styrene wing blanks and scrapped/sanded them into shape.I did the same with the horizontal stabilizer.I did similiar with the fusalage but I did that in a left and right halves from the side view.landing gear wear from bits of wire.I have done the same with balsa wood for the fusalage one others before. I ended up with a small "kit" to assemble and detail.Hope this helps. Greg W

[Thomas Gene Benson]

Thanks Greg I will give it a try.

Cheers
Thomas

[Neptune]

1/400 is quite small, so I suppose a full styrene method would work. Taking some 2 or 3mm thick styrene sheet, cut to the length of the aircraft and afterwards carve and sand it to shape. Balsa could also be used for the fuselage. Perhaps, if you are familiar with the process, you can also make a rubber mold to mold your planes from resin (for the process you can see in ARH's Iron Duke topic, where the resin molding process is very nicely explained!) . If you have a good master of course and if you want identical planes, this would be preferable. You can also do 1 by 1 if you like.

[Thomas Gene Benson]

Thanks again I'll try it.

Thomas