fjaweijfopi4j48 Posted January 4, 2019 Share Posted January 4, 2019 (edited) Two builds from 5 years ago: The Mercedes-Daimler L.21 was the winner of the Light Plane Class of the 1925 Rundflug. https://www.flightglobal.com/FlightPDFArchive/1925/1925%20-%200257.PDF The L.21 was a parasol plane for one person equipped with two two-cylinder Mercedes engines of 19hp each located on small nacelles on the wing leading edge. The design, if appealing, is nevertheless a tad odd, with a mix of refinement and some bluntness to it. I have been gathering material on it for a few years, but the call that brought the model to light came from friend and fellow modeler Sönke Schulz, who is involved in building one, but at the heretic scale of 1/48th. For such little model, it has a great number of details, and it is a veritable strut forest. Besides the four main wing struts, there are small eight of them to hold the landing gear, four very little ones to steady the engine gondolas, plus eight more for the cabane (that's for you illiterate the structure that unites the wing to the fuselage). 24 in total, for such visit card-size model. Small does not automatically translate into easy, as you will be able to see in this build. Decals are from Arctic Decals These TWO models are D622 and D623 ,the two planes that participated in the 1925 Rundflug. D622 was not completely finished at the start of the competition, therefore lacks paint in certain areas and some details that are however visible in D623 , which was fully painted and had details like the Mercedes-Daimler star on the nose, among other things. Edited January 4, 2019 by Moa 17 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baldy Posted January 4, 2019 Share Posted January 4, 2019 Offbeat, quirky, eccentric, whimsical, idiosyncratic, peculiar - no not you Moa! What an incredible looking aeroplane! If it were not for the figures one could easily thing that it was far larger. Another beautiful little gem from your amazing collection! Cheers Malcolm 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fjaweijfopi4j48 Posted January 4, 2019 Author Share Posted January 4, 2019 21 minutes ago, Baldy said: Offbeat, quirky, eccentric, whimsical, idiosyncratic, peculiar - no not you Moa! What an incredible looking aeroplane! If it were not for the figures one could easily thing that it was far larger. Another beautiful little gem from your amazing collection! Cheers Malcolm You are very kind, Malcolm. Ashby de la Zouch? what a geopolitical-linguistical conundrum! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baldy Posted January 4, 2019 Share Posted January 4, 2019 10 minutes ago, Moa said: You are very kind, Malcolm. Ashby de la Zouch? what a geopolitical-linguistical conundrum! History dear boy. It dates from way back to the 11th Century when Ashby became the property of the La Zouch family. It is a nice little market town right in the centre of England, near to Leicester Cheers Malcolm 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fjaweijfopi4j48 Posted January 4, 2019 Author Share Posted January 4, 2019 (edited) 2 hours ago, Baldy said: History dear boy. For a moment there I thought it was a character from The Black Adder Edited January 4, 2019 by Moa 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spitfire31 Posted January 5, 2019 Share Posted January 5, 2019 A lot of wing and a lot of engines for that tiny fuselage, no? 😉 Beautiful models, as we've come to expect from Moa. Kind regards, Joachim 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle Pete Posted January 5, 2019 Share Posted January 5, 2019 15 hours ago, Baldy said: Offbeat, quirky, eccentric, whimsical, idiosyncratic, peculiar - no not you Moa! Yes he is! 😎 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle Pete Posted January 5, 2019 Share Posted January 5, 2019 Have I mentioned this before? You ain't human! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RidgeRunner Posted January 5, 2019 Share Posted January 5, 2019 Cute machines and stunning builds, Moa! I'm running out of praising words as I'm exhausting my complimentary. vocabulary on your posts! Martin 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
occa Posted January 5, 2019 Share Posted January 5, 2019 This simply makes me laugh from joy and amazement, there is serious head shaking going on here, this is legendary 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brandy Posted January 5, 2019 Share Posted January 5, 2019 Beautiful if not odd! The 3/4 front view made me think of a mudskipper for some reason. Ian 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spiton Posted January 5, 2019 Share Posted January 5, 2019 (edited) Moa, you are my favourite modeller, becouse you are making models from very romantic age. That was the time when engineers are making planes in their own sheds. Vehicles that were made back then were looking very strange. And that's why they are so charming and great. Edited January 5, 2019 by spiton 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Masters Posted January 5, 2019 Share Posted January 5, 2019 I have run out of the proper words to say... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GrzeM Posted January 6, 2019 Share Posted January 6, 2019 Really stunning. There is something special in all these odd double-engined light airplanes. Some De Havillands, now this! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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