High Wing Wonder 1/32 AL-60 Conestoga....................(Completed 28 Jan 2018)

lastvautour · January 20, 2018, 10:34:03 PM

Thank you Paul.

Lou

Boomerang · January 21, 2018, 12:45:10 AM

Looks great Lou.

Homemade decals?

Gordon

lastvautour · January 21, 2018, 08:44:34 PM

Yes. If I can't match the red on the PC, I will print the decal grey on clear and paint over that.

Lou

lastvautour · January 25, 2018, 09:31:07 PM

Had to go with clear decal film and paint the registration letters with matching paint. The main one on the wing is applied and looks good. The fuselage lettering is quite a bit smaller so masking is tedious. I anticipate completion by months end.

Lou

lastvautour · January 26, 2018, 01:31:55 AM

These are the decals. The large one is painted and applied. The other two also contain a porthole just aft of the cabin windows.

Lou

Boomerang · January 26, 2018, 07:21:18 AM

Grey on clear. Looks good.
I tried to match the blue when I made the decals for the the Gannet. Had to do some brush work to
match it up.
Did you use a particular font?

Gordon

lastvautour · January 27, 2018, 07:06:51 PM

This is AMARILLOUSAF TT Font gives these block letters that is quite common in civilian registration letters. I downloaded many military fonts but on occasion aircraft vary from the norm and the font used is unavailable.

Lou

lastvautour · January 28, 2018, 02:37:29 PM

Roll Out 28 Jan 2018.

Lou

buccfan · January 28, 2018, 08:58:50 PM

Looks great Lou, decals turned out well. Regards Paul J.

lastvautour · January 29, 2018, 05:55:25 PM

Thank you for the praise.

Decals worked well with paint. I was unable to print the German flag so it came from the scrap decal box. For reasons unknown, the ink colours in the flag kept running into each other. It has never done that before.

Lou

Lotus-14 · October 01, 2018, 05:37:01 PM

A very nice looking model.
Back in the early '60s, I worked for Lockheed.
We had two LASA-60s that were used to fly back and forth between San Jose, California, to CALAC in Burbank; making deliveries. I flew in them more than once.
I had a set of brochures and drawings from Lockheed, which I wish I still had. I've wanted to build a model for some time, but would like to find good photos of the plane in original colors.

lastvautour · October 02, 2018, 12:35:10 AM

I used drawings from a 1966/67 Air Progress magazine and as I recall the photos wee black and white. All that survived was the drawings.
You should start this week and complete it by year's end.

Lou

News:

High Wing Wonder 1/32 AL-60 Conestoga....................(Completed 28 Jan 2018)