Douglas DC-6 Cayman Airways Cargo.

[Viking]

Ever since reading the late Stephen Piercey's 'Skytruck' books I've had a liking for the big ol' piston engine airliners earning their keep in unusual and exotic places. Once jetliners started to enter service, perfectly good large piston engine airliners were not wanted by the big airlines and many hundreds of Lockheed Constellation, Douglas DC-4's, 6's, and 7's were employed on cargo hauling duties.

Browsing Draw Decals website I came across a set for one of the aircraft in Stephens book, the Cayman Airways Cargo DC-6. I just had to have it, and here is the result. The aircraft was actually kept quite clean looking, so I have kept the weathering to a minimum. The kit is the 1:144 Minicraft DC-6 minus the spinners as they don't seem to have been fitted.The decals behaved beautifully and went on a treat. I am particularly impressed that the carrier film seems to have completely vanished.

A WIP thread can be found here.

Enough of the chat, cue the Caribbean background music;

Lovely artwork and printing on the tail badge;

Now I'd like some more of these, we just need to pesuade Draw to do a 'Fri Reyes' DC-4 or 6 (or even B-17!), 'Lanica' C-46, or a 'Conifair' budworm spraying Constellation amongst many others.

Thanks for looking

John

[pinky coffeeboat]

Lovely, very nicely done.

I share your love of the pistonliners from days gone either when they were at their heyday with the main carriers or in their new found lives with the cargo companies after the jets took over and everything in between.

Great job.

Regards,

Jeff

[russ c]

Another beauty, Really nice work

[batcode]

great work ,love the scheme looks great

[mitchem]

Very nice John.

You've got me thinking about doing a DC-4 now. (I must kill the thought off before I buy anything else !)

[John_W]

Very pretty.

They don't build them like they used to, all carbon fibre and computers, Xboxes with wings on

[Jessica]

It's always nice to see a big Douglas propliner. It's even nicer when they're as well done as this one is.

[Julien]

Very nice.

The big propliners certainly did look good.

Julien

[halcyonjet]

Excellent work as usual.

A winning combo in my book - a big Doug and the Cayman Airways pegleg pirate turtle!

Dave

[snapper_city]

Looking great finished.

[Graeme H]

Really nice

[MikeW]

Well played! Beautifully done.

Cheers,

Mike

[nicE1]

Very nice!

Edited December 15, 2013 by nicE1

[woody37]

Lovely John, that's a great scheme

[RickL454]

If you sit at the Sunset Bar at the end of the runway at Princess Julianne Airport, St Maarten you can see and hear something like this landing. So close you can almost reach out and touch it. More importantly you can hear those pistons pounding and pounding.

[Tomjw]

An amazing, pristine looking build. Love the exhaust staining. Subtle, but effective.

Cheers,

Tom.

[Natter]

The word that springs to mind? Beautiful.

[Paul J]

Very enjoyable to see. Good work.

[Val]

A stunning model, great work!

[stringbag]

Another lovely model John.

Decals look very good.

Chris.