Greetings all,





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Take care,
Frank

Ola Frank

Looks pretty good. Beach and road together with the fence are spot on... Nice Dutch Plane you have there. My only point would be that you have your plane flying too high. Having seen this live (Been to St Maarten several times) planes come in much much lower and certainly a plane the size of a Boeing 747 that litterally need ever meter of the short landingstrip of St Maarten. Check out this pic of an Airfrance AC landing at SXM... It nearly takes the fence with him

Thanks Robert!

I used this photo as reference for the dio, http://gunsagogo.org/klmzoomSXM.jpg, which obviously is a new First Officer doing his first approach (and an opportunity to learn the technique)... , but the next one I do (which will be in 200th scale), will be more on the order of this: http://gunsagogo.org/mirrorimagewow.jpg

Take care and thanks again; I envy anyone who's been there and seen it first hand! Maybe next summer the wife and I will go.
Frank

Hmmm... sure is a genuine waist of time posting a build in here! Everyone post comments and questions about colors, parts, and decals for builds, but WHERE are the results of all those inquires?

Lots of people look, but don't really have anything to say though. It's never a waste of time as long as one person looked at it.

Interesting subject, do you have any more pictures? How do you have the plane in the air?

Greetings all,

This dio has been a dream in my head for a long time, so on Sep.
2nd I decided to make it a reality; finished it at 4am this morning!
(finishing touches kicked my butt)



I used the highly modified Airfix 1/300 747-400 as the subject and Flyteline Models new MyDIO kit#1 to mount it. The landscape was accomplished using styrofoam and the water using Testors Clear Cement & Windshield Maker. All the other details were scratchbuilt, so no aftermarket parts were harmed. Enjoy!

http://gunsagogo.org/SXM2.jpg

http://gunsagogo.org/SXM7.jpg

http://gunsagogo.org/SXM8.jpg

http://gunsagogo.org/SXM9.jpg

http://gunsagogo.org/SXM11.jpg

http://gunsagogo.org/SXM14.jpg

http://gunsagogo.org/SXM15.jpg

http://gunsagogo.org/SXM16.jpg

http://gunsagogo.org/SXM19.jpg

For the dio scene, I made 21 figures out of scalpeled sheet styrene with tiny drops of the Testors Clear Cement for proportion (all fit on the face of a quarter), the fence post and umbrella poles are cut sections of Christmas Tree ornament hangers, the fence is from a fine mesh make-up bag my daughter didn't want anymore, the trash can by the umbrellas is from the guts of a watch, the umbrellas are from typing paper, the walls are sanded sprus, and the guard rail is the sanded-down upper half of the window openings on the 144 Airfix 727 cutaway. Oh, and the runway is a sheet of fine grain sandpaper.

On the model, I scratchbuilt new engine intakes, new Flap Guides, extrended Slotted Flaps, Slats, and Landing Gear; plus lengthened the wings and built new Winglets.



Take care,
Frank

Ah, I didn't even realize there was a mirror, that's pretty cool.

Personally I think its pretty cool! The aircraft is well done, the love the idea of it just cleaning the airfield fence. Well done.

Darryl