Ryan Navion 1:48

[Darius]

Built from the very old Olin/Lindberg kit with a home-made clear vac-formed canopy and cockpit interior.



Darius

[mazdaP5]

Nice job there. I can honestly say I've never seen a navion kit before, a rare find!

[spookythecat]

I have that kit and my hat is off to you for turning it into something presentable.

[The Inspector]

What's next? the SEABEE kit?
That's incredible work, What's the gear made up from as I recall that kit was clean and meant for a stand. Of course I haven't built one in about 250 months

[Steve Nelson]

Nice! Did the kit come with any kind of interior, or is that all stuff from the spares bin? (I realize the kit canopy is "solid," but I wonder if maybe it was molded in clear in earlier releases.)

SN

[Randy Haskin]

Very nice salvage of a terrible kit. I think that's the only Navion kit I've ever seen on the market.

I like the canopy, well done.

[mike furline]

It even looks scale when sitting outside.
http://www.airliners.net/photo/Ryan-Nav ... c2d2bf71c1

[spookythecat]

Nice! Did the kit come with any kind of interior, or is that all stuff from the spares bin? (I realize the kit canopy is "solid," but I wonder if maybe it was molded in clear in earlier releases.)

SN

No interior. Guess it was all scratchbuilt.

[The Inspector]

The kits were solid silver plastic with the glazed areas outlined but solid not clear. Even as a 9 yr old I thought it was frustrating that the manufacturer Olin couldn't make the 'windows' clear & I knew zero about the mold making process. Naturally, as kid I couldn't figure out how to make clear glass (this was in the days where 'hobby tools' were a paring knife, a pair of nail clippers, and an emery board borrowed from your mom and if you were building a car, you cut the interior upholstery from an old worn out face cloth and used watery liquid glue in an open topped glass bottle with a stiff brush applicator in the cap, or that evil smelling REVELL orange tube glue with the toluene vapors wafting through the room but it beat the heck out of DUCO in the yellow tube (it was worse if you built stick and paper fliers and used bottled butyrate dope which would make you looney in about 15 minutes, 'HAZMAT? what's that all about?' (Oh, just oxygen displacement is all) They also produced a REPUBLIC SEABEE and I believe pretty nice STINSON 108E

[Chris Brame]

What a beautiful job on that Navion! I'd like to see one finished as an L-17.

I've got the reissued SeaBee that Glencoe Models saw fit to mold in clear plastic, so I'm really looking forward to creating an interior... I've found a lot of SeaBee cockpit images online and no two are alike, so I'll probably get reasonably close to accurate.

[JohnB]

Well done. You took a toy and turned it into a real model.