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Alex K (Grelicks)
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Greek Army L-21B, vac built 32 years ago

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22 5 February 2023, 10:18
Ozcan Ertem
An airplane I had a chance to touch at civilian registration in Turkey. Always loved it. Was not aware of the kit. I liked your model. It looks beautiful with Greek insignia and flag.
13 February 2023, 05:04
Живко Джаков
Alex, not only modelers from Greece are interested in the topic. I'm on the lookout for interesting planes from all over the Balkans. For now, apart from Bulgaria, I have Greek and Romanian planes.
13 February 2023, 10:29
Alex K
Thanks everyone for taking the time to like or comment on this child(ish) effort, despite the very poor quality of both the built model and the supposed "photos"... much appreciated!
@ Ozcan: Glad we share the love for Piper's high-wing classic! It's my all-time favorite aircraft, in fact my first ever flight (even before any flight on an airliner) was in a Super Cub; altogether I had 3 short flights in two L-21B Super Cubs (glider tugs at the Athens Gliding Club) and one in a (WWII vintage) J-3/L-4 Cub, later in France... Re the Airmodel vacform kit, it was the only one available back in the '90s for a Super Cub in 1:72 - we nowadays have the KP injection Super Cubs - and I happen to know that we will surely soon see a much better built Greek Super Cub on Scalemates...
@ Jivko: Similarly, I'm happy (and I have already noticed) our common interest for planes from all over the Balkans! 👍... For my part, I have already built 2... no, 3 Bulgarian... 2 Yugoslav... and 1 Turkish (plus a 2nd in progress... the 3rd Turkish will be surely an L-4). In a way, I was inspired for this by some Latin American modelers here on Scalemates (for instance: ajuradovb - but there are others too), who have an interest for aircraft from the entire Central/South American subcontinent - and I thought, shouldn't we have perhaps a similar approach for the Balkan countries? I think our respective "collections" reflect this common interest of ours... I'll PM you back for the aircraft you are interested in.
Cheers, mates!
13 February 2023, 19:03

Album info

Back in the 1980s-'90s, the Airmodel vacform kit was the only game in town, for anyone wanting to build a Piper Super Cub in 1:72 scale.
This was built back in late 1990 or early 1991, I think, I was 17 at the time. It was given to me half-started by an older modeller and kind of mentor for me. That meant I didn't have to deal with the usual vacform choirs, e.g. the fuselage or the wings were already "ready" pieces. He even included some extras: struts, propeller and wheels from an Airfix Auster I think. Yet, there was still a lot to do: the interior structure and the landing gear are scratch. I'm puzzled as to how I managed then to more or less complete the model, I'm not sure I could do it today. I think this was one of the first models of mine painted with an airbrush (although wrongly painted: it should have been overall Olive Drab, not with Light Grey underwing surfaces). The vac canopy has terribly yellowed in the 30+ years that passed by and it still misses the emblem of Hellenic Army Aviation, that I will soon add thanks to LM Decals. Anyway, it is what it is. Apologies again for the terrible "pics".
PS. For anyone interested in this subject, I suggest you rather take a look at my good friend Elias's model:
Piper L-21B Super Cub Hellenic Army | Album by EliasK (1:72)

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1:72 Piper PA-18 / L-18 (Airmodel 34)

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