1/72 Gloster Grebe

[Mark Braunlich]

This model has appeared briefly in my S.E.5a thread but I thought it deserved it's own thread.  I built this Gloster Grebe in England in 1998 during a six month stint there for my company, working with very basic tools in a rented flat.  The white metal engine, propeller and landing gear as well as the decals are from Aeroclub.   The fuselage is birch, the wings and tail are basswood with paper ribs.  Brush painted with Humbrol paints, rigging is stainless steel wire.   The airman is a vintage Skybirds figure.

[lastvautour]

She is a beauty Mark. How thick of a paper did you use?

Lou

[Mark Braunlich]

It's just regular note paper Lou....maybe .0035" thick.  It is doped down with nitrate model airplane dope and then sanded so some of that thickness gets sanded away, hard to say how much.  I just sand it until it looks right.

[Balsabasher]

What a beauty Mark,the model really does impart the character of the full sized machine,Barry.

[Mark Braunlich]

Thanks guys!    Can't believe 15 years have passed since I built the Grebe.