Fiddlers Green

What about a series of Paper 1:60 scale paper hangars? Like you could make several different kinds, from different eras. What I really want to see is a 1:60 scale large WWII hangar.

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- James Holt

A small WW2 hangar would usually hold about a dozen fighter/trainer sized aircraft. That would still take up a lot of space. Don't know how many folks would be willing to build somehing that large. That would be something on the order of thirty inches on a side, at least

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-Rob-

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Although there would still be people who would want to. Like me. I know it would be large, but I would stilll want to build it.

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- James Holt

For those of us building a fleet of private planes in WSAM (or any other scale for that matter) maybe there could be a set of T hangers with sliding doors. Most every airport has them, usually made from corrugated steel. A neat display would be like Saturday at the airport - some doors open, people working on their planes, some taxiing out. Would make a great addition to my N scale railroad plans in 1/160 scale. If my fumble fingers could make the planes that small (J-3 Cub with 2-5/8" wingspan).

For those of us building a fleet of private planes in WSAM (or any other scale for that matter) maybe there could be a set of T hangers with sliding doors. Most every airport has them, usually made from corrugated steel. A neat display would be like Saturday at the airport - some doors open, people working on their planes, some taxiing out. Would make a great addition to my N scale railroad plans in 1/160 scale. If my fumble fingers could make the planes that small (J-3 Cub with 2-5/8" wingspan).

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I'd like to have hanger fronts made like the Walther Cornerstone background building. Thay could be put together to make a solid backdrop that would still be 3D.

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Full sized hangars at 1/60 quickly get monstrously large--but how about one of theose alert hangars the airforce used that housed maybe two or three fighters at the most. Don't know if any are still standing--remember them from the sixties and early seventies when I was a frequent visitor to AFB flight lines. They'd still end up being a pretty fair sized structure.

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-Rob-

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I just finished building a scaled-up version of this one paper hanagr I found on the net. It is huge at WSAM! You can almost fit the C-47 in it! You can barely fit the CG-4 inside it. I'll try and get you some photos....

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- James Holt

I for one would really like to have a hanger for the fair this year. i could show off my wsam collection.

BArry

Such a design would be quite large, and require some unique materials to pull off. The spans needed at the requisite scales would put paper engineering of cardstock to the test I think. Still, I'd like to give it a try. I've got several WWII and Cold-War era hangars within a 2-hour drive that I'd like to model sometime.

The Hangar 25 museum in Big Spring is a unique WWII structure:



I like the doors and the concrete buttresses. The hangar currently houses a T-37, T-38, T-33, an AT-11, T-28, and the nose off a B-52. You can also see some of the criss-cross wood design forming the roof. It's called a lamella design:



There's also a couple of vintage 1950's alert hangars I'd really like to model from there at Big Spring too:



Each hangar housed a pair of F-102s on alert when Webb AFB was active. The daggers were later replaced with F-104s. Modelling the doors on the alert hangars would take some doing!

Excellent idea.

What about selectivly compressing it? Have a full-scale version, and a second, smaller version that'll fit a couple of planes, (like one or two) and look like the big one, just not as large, or make it look larger than it actually is somehow. I'd make the front nice and large, but the middle kinda short.(make it slope ever so gently from front to back, and inward from front to back)