First of all,
thanks to those who encouraged me to submit my Turbo Otter conversion.
Then, thanks to those of you who sent me the kind words upon seeing it
published on ARC. Well, I'm back. This time it's another De
havilland Canada product. My rendition of C-FOEF. I
apprenticed as a AME. while working with this airplane at Athabaska
Airways, but enough of that. You can find pictures of this plane by
Googling it's reg. (C-FOEF) and it's ultimate fate...I built the kit
pretty much out of the box...well, no, I guess I didn't. I used the
airframe from the wings back except for the fin, rudder and ventral
stabalizer.
Everything in front
of the wings is new also. I added some length to the forward fuselage,
this was required to maintain the c. of g. on the real conversion but it also
had the added convenience of adding more doors, which I used to full advantage
by building up a fairly complete interior. I did up seats, seat belts,
extinguishers, instruments, etc, etc, as can be seen in photo's 4 and 5 (If I've
submitted them in the right order.) After I had the lengthened fuselage
roughed in I epoxied a block of pine to the nose and began the carving to get my
turbo beaver nose. Once I had cut away everything that didn't look like a turbo
beaver, I broke the nose off and did the silicon rubber and resin thing. I made
the exhausts from squashed and bent aluminum tube, the spinner from a drop tank
and propellor blades from the very very very old Cessna 180 kit. (which was
another conversion to a skywagon 185...but later...maybe)
Click on
images below to see larger images
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I built the
floats as is, adding only the spray shields at the bows, water rudders,
paddles, and some rigging.
Picture 6 shows my small
fleet of Beavers CF-AEB (at the back) is a desert conversion with the carb.
air intake moved to the upper right side of the cowl, and wing tip tanks,
this one is still in service. C-FJKG (on the right) Lost in the bush in
northern Saskatchewan early in the '70's. and C-FOEF on the left.
I changed the positioning of the
front cabin doors, which seemed too low to me. Because these kits are moulded in
clear plastic I had to paint it inside and out. To prevent it being translucent.
I used Gunze acrylics and my homemade decal concoction on the model with the
cheat lines in black foil. The real plane's flaperons would sag quite quickly
after parking so mine did as well. Once again she's parked with the props in the
full feathered position.
Chris
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