Fairchild Club Forum

Posted: **Wed Jun 24, 2009 8:34 am**

'Gentlemen:

Glad to be onboard your Fairchild focus group. I am an r/c scale modeler with a close friend who owns an Fairchild F-24R in Houston. I decided to replicate an F-24R/UC-61 residing in Belgium for my next project. It has a polished cowl to serve double duty in promotion of my Bill Effinger Designs giant scale plans and Flite-Metal, my aluminum finishing system. I needed a "poster child" to campaign so it was a natural after I began selling Effinger's Designs on Thanksgiving.

I have acquired a "too small" multiple view line art drawing of the F-24R / F-24W for my purposes. During the static portion of scale model competition the multiple view line art is is used as the reference for comparitive review of my model. I need a drawing large enough for someone to easily compare without their getting upset that it is small and difficult to see. As you can imagine I don't want to step off the dock with a judge who begins his duties by holding the 3VU or 4VU further away than "normal"...

Its simply not the best first impression I am looking for...

Can anyone point me in the direction of a multi-view line art drawing of the F-24R which would be 1/24th or 1/48th in scale? If you have one and can scan it I would be most grateful to receive an attachment either to your reply to this forum or sent directly to me at wmclayman@comcast.net Attached to this post is the smallish multi-view I have now. Also I am attaching an image of the F-24R/UC-61 I am replicating.

Thanks in advance for your kind consideration...

Ed Clayman
Houston, TX
wmclayman@comcast.net

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Posted: **Wed Jun 24, 2009 9:26 am**

'Well, I see that attachments are not permitted to replies to this groups forum. So, if anyone can provide a 1/24th to 1/48th line art multiple view drawing for me to use with my F-24R/UC-61 it will have to be sent as an attachment to wmclayman@comcast.net .

Thank you in advance for your kind assistance.

Ed Clayman
Houston, TX

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> Gentlemen:
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> Glad to be onboard your Fairchild focus group. I am an r/c scale modeler with a close friend who owns an Fairchild F-24R in Houston. I decided to replicate an F-24R/UC-61 residing in Belgium for my next project....

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Posted: **Wed Jun 24, 2009 5:51 pm**

'Ed,

See attached. Let me know if you need anything else. Let me know if the attachments come through.

I maintain the FC CD ROM with all the data, glad to share.

Your correct, no attach to the site. I cc'c the site to let them know you have been helped.

Jamie

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----- Original Message -----
From: Ed Clayman
To: fairchildclub@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Wednesday, June 24, 2009 8:26 AM
Subject: [fairchildclub] Re: New Member... Ed Clayman F-24R builder

Well, I see that attachments are not permitted to replies to this groups forum. So, if anyone can provide a 1/24th to 1/48th line art multiple view drawing for me to use with my F-24R/UC-61 it will have to be sent as an attachment to wmclayman@comcast.net .

Thank you in advance for your kind assistance.

Ed Clayman
Houston, TX

--- In fairchildclub@yahoogroups.com, "wclayman" wrote:
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> Gentlemen:
>
> Glad to be onboard your Fairchild focus group. I am an r/c scale modeler with a close friend who owns an Fairchild F-24R in Houston. I decided to replicate an F-24R/UC-61 residing in Belgium for my next project....

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Posted: **Wed Jun 24, 2009 10:12 pm**

'Ed,

I never heard of a Fairchild 24 with built in 'washout' or 'wash in'

Be aware that the Early Fairchild 24s engine mounts were part of the fuselage. These are referred to as 'short nosed' Around 1939, Fairchild switched to a removable engine mount, which added 11 inches to the nose (and required the battery to be moved to the tail). The 'short nosed' Fairchilds normally had an oild cooler hanging under the cowl. 'Long nosed' Fairchild 24s had the oil cooler tucked into the cowl, and had a 'scoop' on the passenger side of the cowl for cooling.

Some of the 'short nosed' and a LOT of the 'long nosed' Fairchilds were sent to England at the beginning of the war. All Fairchild 24s were called 'the Argus' in Europe. Argus comes from Greek Mythology meaning an all-seeing creature with 100 eyes.

Good luck on your model and documentation.

Bob Waldron
Webster, MN
1939 Fairchild 24K 'short nosed'
used by U.S. Coastal patrol prior to WWII to find German U-Boats

--- In fairchildclub@yahoogroups.com, "wclayman" wrote:
>
> Gentlemen:
>
> Glad to be onboard your Fairchild focus group. I am an r/c scale modeler with a close friend who owns an Fairchild F-24R in Houston. I decided to replicate an F-24R/UC-61 residing in Belgium for my next project. It has a polished cowl to serve double duty in promotion of my Bill Effinger Designs giant scale plans and Flite-Metal, my aluminum finishing system. I needed a "poster child" to campaign so it was a natural after I began selling Effinger's Designs on Thanksgiving.
>
> I have acquired a "too small" multiple view line art drawing of the F-24R / F-24W for my purposes. During the static portion of scale model competition the multiple view line art is is used as the reference for comparitive review of my model. I need a drawing large enough for someone to easily compare without their getting upset that it is small and difficult to see. As you can imagine I don't want to step off the dock with a judge who begins his duties by holding the 3VU or 4VU further away than "normal"... Its simply not the best first impression I am looking for...
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> Can anyone point me in the direction of a multi-view line art drawing of the F-24R which would be 1/24th or 1/48th in scale? If you have one and can scan it I would be most grateful to receive an attachment either to your reply to this forum or sent directly to me at wmclayman@... Attached to this post is the smallish multi-view I have now. Also I am attaching an image of the F-24R/UC-61 I am replicating.
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> Thanks in advance for your kind consideration...
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> Ed Clayman
> Houston, TX
> wmclayman@...
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