Model Expo to the rescue.WW1 airplane,open structure just like the Travelair pics I have hanging on the wall.Then it all came flooding back to me,the cold hangars ,the smell of dope,the hand rubbing of 30 coats of paint,the sights ,the smells ,the sounds of my youth hanging around airplanes.That is what I know really well!Why not build one of these open structure model airplanes .Sure it is 16 times smaller than what you built before but you already have the knowledge of working in small scale.Everything was rapidly coming together.I have the airplane,the diorama idea,the knowledge,the model building skills but do I have the creativity to really contribute something new.Then a funny thing happened,doors began to open,research material would show up just when I needed it,I would just happen upon things on the internet, Wow I seem to be on the right track.It really cant be this easy.I thought of shadow boxes,lighting,figures,wiring,making hangars from coffee sticks on and on.Then it finally struck me ,why not take what the doll house builder does(something I also always admired) which is basically a five side shadow box and marry that up with traditional modelmaking.I had never seen this done before so I decided to give it a try. to be cont....
