BeechTalk - BT

Username Protected · **Posted:** 17 Mar 2012, 20:38

Hi my name is Walter Civitico. I am not a Beech owner or even a pilot but have had a deep interest in aviation all my life and have just retired from 40 years of Air Traffic Control.
I joined this group to see if I could access some resource materials to assist me with my hobby.. aircraft modelling. I have built a couple of Beechs:

From The Minicraft 1/48 kit

I also wanted to model a Baron but no kit in any scale exists, so I did what Beech did and converted a 1/48 Minicraft Bonanza into a Baron (a "B" model). I will model a "C" soon.

Username Protected · **Posted:** 17 Mar 2012, 20:41

Those are great Walter!

Username Protected · **Posted:** 17 Mar 2012, 20:48

Welcome Walter!

Thanks for sharing the pictures! :thumbup:

Username Protected · **Posted:** 17 Mar 2012, 21:37

Walter,

Welcome! The models are awesome, especially the Baron! :thumbup:

How did you do the conversion?

I remember seeing some German resin conversion to turn the Academy V-35B into an F-33A on eBay years ago, but have never again been able to locate one. I am still kicking myself for not buying it.

Drew

Username Protected · **Posted:** 17 Mar 2012, 21:43

Username Protected wrote:

Walter,

Welcome! The models are awesome, especially the Baron! :thumbup:

How did you do the conversion?

I remember seeing some German resin conversion to turn the Academy V-35B into an F-33A on eBay years ago, but have never again been able to locate one. I am still kicking myself for not buying it.

Drew

Hi Drew, the build is blogged here:
http://www.aussiemodeller.com.au/forum/ ... f=8&t=3070

doing the straight tail conversion is quite easy using plastic sheet..time consuming but easy

cheers
wal

Username Protected · **Posted:** 17 Mar 2012, 22:46

Dam those look nice. I have trouble with stick figures so it is always even more impressive to me what artists can accomplish.

Tim

Username Protected · **Posted:** 18 Mar 2012, 11:08

Welcome Walter,

It appears we both have the same hobby, although I tend to build a bit bigger. viewtopic.php?f=2&t=56906&p=574526&hilit=T34C#p574526

Username Protected · **Posted:** 22 Mar 2012, 16:22

Strewth Wally, fancy you turning up on here. You were the travelling ATCO when we did the London-Sydney trip in 2001. I had only just bought my A36 but hadn't picked it up so we were flying Mike Starts Saratoga G-LLYY. I had lunch yesterday with Philip Crew and Don Green who were in the Malibu G-CREW.

Best of luck with your retirement, I think that waypoint Wally is still in the Indian Ocean off Pakistan.

Will

Username Protected · **Posted:** 22 Mar 2012, 16:48

Welcome Walter,

I think you should drop in a few pics of the others you have built.

Between you and my mate Aye Ess the skills of art are immeasurable.

Great stuff :thumbup:

Jaba

Username Protected · **Posted:** 22 Mar 2012, 18:41

They look great. The first one looks rather similar to my avatar :bud:

(although we have now got a 3 blade prop)

Username Protected · **Posted:** 22 Mar 2012, 18:48

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Username Protected · **Posted:** 26 Mar 2012, 02:05

Username Protected wrote:

Strewth Wally, fancy you turning up on here. You were the travelling ATCO when we did the London-Sydney trip in 2001. I had only just bought my A36 but hadn't picked it up so we were flying Mike Starts Saratoga G-LLYY. I had lunch yesterday with Philip Crew and Don Green who were in the Malibu G-CREW.

Best of luck with your retirement, I think that waypoint Wally is still in the Indian Ocean off Pakistan.

Will

Hi Will,
Long time no see! that waypoint lasted one day only I think, I have a picture of our Titans GPS navgear showing that waypoint somewhere in my album. Aviation is a small world!

Username Protected · **Posted:** 26 Mar 2012, 02:28

Username Protected wrote:

They look great. The first one looks rather similar to my avatar :bud:

(although we have now got a 3 blade prop)

well how about that! do you want a model of your bird? I think I have a three bladed prop to whack on her and can print a new stripe without the DOA "sticker"

cheers
wal

Username Protected · **Posted:** 26 Mar 2012, 02:41

Username Protected wrote:

Welcome Walter,

I think you should drop in a few pics of the others you have built.

Between you and my mate Aye Ess the skills of art are immeasurable.

Great stuff :thumbup:

Jaba

Hi David... oh I dont know won't the troops get restless with a Piper, Mitsubishi or other non-beechs chucked in?

But OK just a few

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