Island Girl's wave chaser

[Scott Colmer]

This was built by request to give to the person who painted my brother in law's, daughter's pedal car. The painter, S. Carter is also a great military modeler. When my bother in law asked me to build a plane for S. Carter, I knew better than to attempt to do something in his world, so I decided to do something related to little Emalain's pedal car. This will be a surprise gift to him.

Here is the inspiration.

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Here is the finished product. It's based on a Dave Deal Messerscnintzel. The idea was to pick up some 49 Ford woody styling elements. You can see it in the nose and roof.

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The surf board is hand carved. The wood framing is hand painted styrene. The inner wood panel is shelf paper that has been darkened a bit.

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All the panel lines were raised. They were flattened and then re-scribed. I also had to replace the rivets, but you really can only see then in the light.

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The pontoons were made by heat forming sheet plastic over a life boat in the old Jolly Roger kit. The shape was extended at the back. The planking is shelf paper again. This time light and dark strips were alternated. The rounded cap bolts on the wood trim is aluminum tape punched out with a piece of chiseled rod. The trim is hand painted styrene.

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The engine cover fasteners are the end of aluminum rod polished then scored with an exacto blade. The dash is more aluminum tape, this time engine turned. Gauge bezels are aluminum. The piston shifter is a 10 minute project using Aluminum tubing.

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Hope you like it. Hope S. Carter likes it too.

Scott Colmer

[Bernard Kron]

No wheels but who cares! Totally seductive and charming. And what an appreciative gift to give a fellow artist. Everything about it is just right and the craft and detail to achieve it just makes it better! Bravo! A creative as well as technical tour de force.

[RodneyBad]

That looks AWESOME!!!

Best looking Woodie Plane I've ever seen

Great looking Wood Trim and Engine.

Surf board is a Cool Touch..

[Lyle Willits]

This is just beyond COOL !!!!!!!! Love all the little details.

[crispy]

Absolutely perfect! Superb creativity! I think this would be a perfect gem in any collection. Great work!

Chris

[Terror]

great imagination.I also like the pedal car.

[vizio93]

That thang is wicked !!!! I love the smoke coming out of the headers . The engine looks awesome. Nice job !

[Modelmartin]

I would just be repeating what the previous guys said so I will just say that looking at this model brought a huge smile to my face! Very cool and very fun, Scott!

[Guest Gramps-xrds]

Like what was said before. "Way beyond cool." This is a master piece that anyone would be happy to get as a present. What a great piece of art.

[Custom Hearse]

Too cool! I love the the surfboard and woody panels... Very knarly dude! The only thing you didn't describe making was the moving propeller look... How did you make that?

[disabled modeler]

That thing is just too cool!!!!! i dont usually care for planes.......but thats cool! let me guess the propeller spinning look was made by clear plastic and a compass to scribe the spin look? i never thought of it before i seen the wicked surf plane ....too cool. mark

[Pro Tech]

Scott, just an awesome build, beautiful work!!! That painter is going to get a heck of a surprise. Also that is very kind of you to build this as a gift for someone, I would totally be blown away if I received a gift with the amount of effort that you put into this

Charlie

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[Lownslow]

that thing is sick

[cruz]

Awesome, details are phenomenal!!!

[RodBurNeR]

Very cool and original!

[E St. Kruiser50]

I LOVE THIS PLACE .

Where else could a person click on a topic and get such an incredible surprise.

This beautiful, creative and extra imaginative piece of art really says "I LOVE THIS HOBBY" .

This is "MY KINDA STUFF" Scott, you got me right where I enjoy this hobby the most .

Everything about it is just right. All the scratch-building, the color, the wood paneling, even the way you've displayed it, and the "SPINNING PROP" - VERY INGENIOUS.

[Sixties Sam]

Way to go, Scott! That is cool!

Hmmm, now you have me thinking! An R/C version of that would turn some heads at my club's flying field! Maybe about 48" span, electric powered, with a dummy engine from a 1/8 scale Big T or Deuce? I would have to ditch the floats and replace them with a pair of steelies with wide white walls for landing gear! Hmmm.

[Scott Colmer]

Thanks for all the kind comments guys.

You got it, Mark. The spinning prop is just clear styrene scribed with a compass. I did add a line of light scuffing where the actual prop baldes would be, but it does not show in the pics. The clear styrene idea is taken from a Mike Flynn project.

Sam, It would be cool to see something like this in an RC plane. Pretty fun stuff. I would like to see that.

I'll let you know how S. Carter likes it.

The bench is clean, and the Land Speed Vette is back up.

Scott

[charlie8575]

Absolutely wonderful! One of the most creative exercises I've seen in quite some time!

Charlie Larkin

[bsoder]

That is the coolest thing I've seen in awhile!..brought a big smile to my face

[randx0]

Yep,I agree with everyone else.It is fun to look at thank you for sharing it .I think it would have been a shame had this gone unseen by the car model guys.

[Bernard Kron]

...The bench is clean, and the Land Speed Vette is back up.

Yahoo!!!!

[charlzrocks]

One of the manufacturers should make a kit of that one! I think it's a hoot!

...and it looks like it could be strangely functional!

[george 53]

I GOTTA agree with EVERYONE else, THAT is the COOOOLEST NON car Model I've seen inna LOOOONG time! It's just TOOOO COOL!!!!!

[rustybill1960]

Oh Wow!

i saw your wip of this at CC2

i am very glad i got to see it finished

awesome dude

that really is sweet!

great colours on her too!

thanks for sharing dude

later