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A Story of a POGO

a build story by Chuck Shanley
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The Boarding Ladder
The first couple of photos I found showed the boarding ladder which looking interesting, but I’d seen this before in the display of the model. (I did build it, just to finish out the compliment of equipment I found. But, I built it last after the others were finished).
The Lift
The second set of photos showed a very specialized and unique “Lift” used to move the aircraft around in a horizontal orientation rather than it’s “normal” vertical. This set of photos really got me going, so much so that I have no progress photos of my build of the “Lift”.

I was looking at the photos and found a suitable base for the platform that I could modify. It was one of my days off, and I just started trying to replicate what I saw in the reference photos, using the modified base (from a crane set), parts from my “scrap box”, sprue, and sheet styrene. Before I realized what I had done it was built.
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About the Author

About Chuck Shanley (CRS)
FROM: CALIFORNIA, UNITED STATES

I've been building kits since about the mid 1950's. I've built all kinds of subjects, but for the past 20 years or so I've seemed to focus mainly on 1/72 Aircraft and Armor. Why 1/72, mainly for space conservation I build alot. I build primarily for my own enjoyment, and Armorama has helped to en...


Comments

Verboten
Interesting aircraft! Somewhat reminds me of the Treibflugel, not sure why.....
DEC 13, 2004 - 11:03 AM
staff_Jim
Nice work on publishing this Rowan. And nice job Chuck on the whole project! Cheers, Jim
DEC 13, 2004 - 11:28 AM
LogansDad
Holy.......Moley! When I first saw the updates on this one I thought, "Yeah, that's a quart o' Thunderbird in the plain brown wrapper...Where's the damn Pogo?!?!" Should'a known better than to question theMaster's intent A Portable Hangar AND the mobile support recovery gantry... Chuck, you make my paltry efforts look, well, paltry. I am not fit to stretch your sprue This one belongs in a Museum. Got anyone on the hook yet?
DEC 13, 2004 - 11:19 PM
Holdfast
Very nicely done Chuck, a superb project. Thanks for sharing Mal
DEC 14, 2004 - 08:26 AM
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