ORIGINAL: ampeater
My mother bought this Scale Line Models Great Lakes Trainer kit as a gift for my father in 1962. It's been in the rafters since, and he asked me to build it for him, probably mostly for sentimental reasons. ... I plan to cover with orange solartex with black paint. Oh, and my mother planned ahead enough to buy an optional fiberglass cowl for it. Who would have thought she knew about such things back then……
Not a half-bad plane at all - found one myself a couple years ago in a yard-sale, in pretty sad shape. Took her apart and put her back together, painted in the scheme of the full-size NC-840H, a 2T-1B model.
Among other things, during the restoration I contacted John Dunham, owner/president/CEO of the Great Lakes Aircraft Company which is now located in Colorado. He put me in contact with Harvey Swack (company historian and info guru). Mr Dunham gave permission to use the GLAC logo and Mr Swack sent me a copy of the original company 3-view drawings.
I covered mine with SIG Koverall & Stixit, painted with SIG dopes. You can see a bit of what I went through on the website -
http://www.wanderings-ds.com/whs/52-2t1a.html
I'm including a copy of the logo and some of the other stuff they sent here, along with a couple pics of my bird - and the full-size bird that I based the paint job on.
Good luck with yours!!!!
ANDTHANKYOURMOTHERFORSTILLHAVINGIT!!!!!!!!!!!!
Dave