Early suede
Hi Guys, this is a Thulin D. The very young Enoch Thulin, one of Sweden’s first aviators who started aviation in our country. He started flying before Sweden got its first official airforce in 1926.
The Thulin D was Swedish build. You will see the similarities with the French Morane Saulnier type M. Witch it is, just with some changes.
The model is Eduards old Morane Saulnier #8007. Did some changes in the front, new access doors for the carburettors and vacuumformed a new engine cower.
The paint is my own mix of CDL (Clear doped Linen) Humbrol 74, black 33 and wood 110. The cowl is painted in Humbrol 30 green. Decals comes from a short run Swedish ALP guy.








Lars

WOW, Lars that is impressive.
The work involved in these W.W.1 aircraft always amazes me and they are so small compared to later aircraft.
Andy

Och han skjuter i mal igen!!!!!
Damn nice build Lars! Have to agree with Andy here. When I opened the boxes to my first WW I fighters, I almost "where are they?" they're tiny those wee things...ha ha ha!
Keep 'em coming mate!

I can only echo what everyone else is saying Lars,,
VERY impressive. Loads of rigging too
About time I had another go at rigging something myself with all this early aviation building thats going on at the moment
Nige

Loved that you vacum formed the cowling. I did notice that the cockpit opening has no padding around it. Is this correct for this plane?

Jaw-droppingly excellent Lars. I'm really impressed with the detail you've put into the rigging; good skills and lots of patience.

Slightly but up until about ten years ago I had a hard covered book dealing with the aircraft and units of the Swedish Air Force from 1926 - 1945.

Written in Swedish, with an abridged translation in the back, it was a constant scource of reference.

Unfortunately an ex-friend 'lost' it, along with a couple of other books ( had sold them, as I found out when I happened to be in the aviation section of a second-hand book store!)

Now I can't even remember the title or author. Any ideas?

Jeff W.

Hi Jeff
I have no idea witch book it could be. There is anumber of books in swedish, about the airforce.
Outside Linköping there I live is Swedens bigest museum of the airforce. Have you checked out the site?They sell books
[url=http://www.sfhm.se/FlygDefaultPage____26.aspx[/url]
Maybe you can remember the titel of the book.

The Thulin
I dont know if there was a padding or not. All photos I´ve seen have not given any answer.Glad you liked it, do

Lars

Lars that is a great looking aircraft. The wood looks real. The rigging is wonderfully done. Great job.
Wayne

I learn something everytime Lars posts images!

another corker of a model lars! every section (rigging,paint,wood effect) looks great. nicely done!

Hi
I´m glad you like this early machine.It took some time to build it, It´s an old Eduard with lots of flash around the bits.
There was Poor fitting through the whole model, so I was relived when it’s finished. The last piece came together when a fellow with a ALP printer did some nice Swedish insignia crown.
Lars

Hi Lars,

Wow!

I am assuming this is 1/48?

How did you make the buckles at each end of the rigging wires?

What did you use for rigging?

A beauty!

Hi Rick
Yes It’s 48-scale.
The buckles are made from 0.0039 in/ 0,10 mm copperwire and a thin plastic tube made of a hotstreched Q-tip. The thread I use for rigging is a Gold-Zack elastic rubber thread. The way to rigg is just to follow this link bellow.
http://www.ipmsstockholm.org/magazine/2001/11/stuff_eng_tech_rigging.htm

Lars