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Very Nice! Thank you for sharing your build.

Papaace, The skis are now available as a free download at the www.dgapapermodels.com site under the 'Free Stuff' page. I will make instructions for the skis sometime, but you can probably figure them out without instructions:mrgreen:

I have not worked with this museum in the past, but I have sent numerous models to other museums. I need to ship a float plane model to the Yukon next. I will photo the packaging when I do so.

US Army Transportation Museum - Fort Eustis, VA The subject of this build thread was mailed on Friday to the US Army Transportation Museum in Fort Eustis VA. I got an e-mail today from the curator that told me the model made it (on Monday) in fine shape (it must have gone air mail!) and that...

Wheeels and skis Thanks Papaace! The wheels and landing gear are included in the kit for the float planes. I just have not published instructions yet. The skis (both wheel-skis and straight skis) will be available as a free download in the future. I really need to document how to...

Two Canadian float plane Otters are now published! Find them at ecardmodels.com More Otter coming...

The Otters are a coming! This is a timely question. The first Otter model versions (two civil float planes) will be published very soon (maybe today or tomorrow). Six other liveries are already finished (including the Army version in this thread) and as soon as I get off my rear and...

This is so sad, but I hope that when I die, I am doing something that I love.

This just keeps getting better all of the time! I just love to see this Mitchell going together!

Thanks for your support Elliot! I agree that the Otter is an under-appreciated plane, especially as I did research for this livery. There is a lot of history and some true heroism that is represented in this model. I have learned so much about modeling by hanging around in this forum...

even more pictures!

more pics

everyone likes pictures! All that is left to finish the model is easy stuff: The wing struts; the flap & aileron hinges, the wing fences and the pitot tube. I think these are self explanatory so I will skip to pictures of the completed model.

Hi Elliot, I caulk all the way around at the same time. Aleene's Original Tacky Glue stays put. I imagine that if I were to put too much on, that it might run, but I have not had that problem.

Here I am slipping the wing into the fuselage. Now the wing is centered. Here I go again with the glue. No one can say that I am afraid of using too much glue. I am intending to package this model and mail it off. It cannot be made too strong for the rigors of the postal service.

Dihedral This is how I set up my clipboard as a jig for drying the wing. The wingtips on a 1:48 scale Otter should be 1/4" higher than the wing center section. I use small binder clips attached to my clipboard to set this dihedral. I clip it on and let it dry.

Wings! Once again I form the leading edges around the edge of my clipboard. Then I round out the tops of the wingsand glue at the trailing edges After the trailing edges are dry, I curl the wing in my fists to form the undercamber to the bottoms of the wings. Look at the shape that on...

Since most of my models ultimately need to cope with rough handling, I commonly reinforce joints with a caulk bead of white glue. The printer that I use is an HP 4600 laser which puts a sheen to the surface of the paper. When dry, the white glue has the same sheen and disappears. Look for the...

Tail feathers You can see that I use the rounded edge of my clipboard to form the leading edges of the horizontal tail. With the trailing edges glued and dry, I use 1/2 sheet of toilet tissue (1 ply) to stuff between the large glue tabs on the port side stabilizer. I do this only for...

Now I am cutting the openings in the fuselage to accept the wings. Look close at the picture and see that I have cut beyond the cut lines at the rear of the wing opening. This is necessary in order to get the wing to fit! Cut all the way back until the blade hits the bulkhead (that is where...