- Transportation of completed models
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- Posted By: Bill Steinberg <Bsteinbe@genre.com>
- Date: Thursday, 17 December 1998, at 2:49 p.m.
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- Hello all:
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- I need some help with tips on travelling with completed models. I live in
NYC and must travel via air to Atlanta and ultimately Washington D.C. with a
completed 1/48th scale F4U-4B (sorry its not Japanese!). It is a present for
my brother in law to be. Unfortunately, the model is finished wih a full
compliment of bombs, rockets, and extended landng gear.
- (Stuff just begging to come apart from the model.) How on earth do I
travel without having
- everything fall to pieces?
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- I came across an old- fashioned hatbox at my paren'ts house. It looks like
it might work, if
- I were to to carefully stuff it with styro "peanuts."
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- Any tips/hints/stories would be helpful
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- Happy Holidays,
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- Bill Steinberg
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- Re: Transportation of completed models
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- Posted By: Dave Pluth <info@j-aircraft.com>
- Date: Thursday, 17 December 1998, at 5:38 p.m.
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- In Response To: Transportation of completed models (Bill Steinberg)
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- Bill,
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- For most of my traveling, I've had pretty good success with an old copier
paper box. I cut out some packing foam and made something of a craddle.
Through the foam I use a big fuzzy craft pipecleaners to tie things down.
The paper box is basically cut in half to make it a bit smaller. It would
probably be ok as a carry on for you, but I don't know if it would still
survive the baggage handlers at the airport.
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- Hope this helpfs.
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- -Dave
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- Re: Transportation of completed models
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- Posted By: David_Aiken <David_Aiken@hotmail.com>
- Date: Thursday, 17 December 1998, at 5:39 p.m.
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- In Response To: Transportation of completed models (Bill Steinberg)
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- Howdy Bill,
- When I transported aircraft (carry on ONLY), I used the clear plastic
"sweater box", or freezer box". They made good containers to
stack ("clear plastic" to KNOW what was in the box), store (dust
free), and transport.
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- Each plane was "jacked" on sponge rubber in the same jacking
location the actual plane was "jacked" (usually under both wings
and under the area forward of the tail wheel). Then they were "tied
down" with strips of card stock across the top surface of both wings
and across the fuselage and taped to the "floor" of the box.
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- Of course antenna, bombs, etc may change the location of the points noted.
- Best wishes on the holiday season,
- Mele Kalikimaka,
- Cheers,
- David Aiken
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