Pretty straight-forward question - do you build your aircraft with the gear down or up? When I first started building I always used the gear because it was easier to display, short of having the thing riding on its drop tanks! Then when I started running short of display space, I built some with gear up & hung them with fishing line.
Anybody?!
…last time I posted a picture of my gear down in here I was suspended for 3 months…same thing happened when I posted a pic with it up…but thanks for asking…
Usually gear down fo convenience, but I’m increasingly preferring seeing models in-flight. Similarly have begun to much prefer access panels closed, wings un-folded, etc. to see what the airplane looks like.
For Deals Wheels; Gear Up.
suspended?
LMAO!
suspended?
From the Zuiho?
Yup, they put him up in the rigging alongside the signal flags, ended up sending the fleet to the wrong side of the Philipines…
As a kid, I built most with gear up. Less parts to be in the way of getting done. Almost all were hung from the ceiling.
Now, for the most part, I put so much work into the pits, I kinda have to leave the canopy open and no pilot, so gear down. Don’t care much for open panels all over the place or folded wings either. I like em pretty much ready to go, or ready …to be ready to go, a couple RBF flags here and there. Flaps down looks cool too.
I used to build gears-up when i first started, mostly because all the models were designated to be ceiling hangers. BUt now I build them gear-down because I do not have the type of ceiling that makes it easy to hang planes, and I am spending more time and effort on the details, so I want to be able to see it.
Gears down and displayed.
Gears up, hung from the ceiling, really makes them seem toy-like. I did it when I was a kid - I even made them in dynamic flight. I had dogfights, I even hung individual missles in the air, like a mid-air kill shot.
But now, I prefer the museum look to my display.
-Fred
Gear down,I won’t hang mine because they collect dust and need to be taken down and cleaned.I rather put them behind glass,gear down,on a shelf.
I display nearly all of my models on a shelf, so it pretty much has to be gear down. This is especially true for those with a lot detail on the gear themselves and in the wells.
Darwin, O.F. [aln]
Gear down for me.
Regards, Rick
My favorite subject is seaplanes!
Many seaplanes had gear as well as hull bottoms—the catalina comes to mind.
Did someone say, cat?
Depends on whether or not I screw up the gear!
Depends on whether or not they were amphibians or flying boats/seaplanes… Seaplanes and flying boats initially only had beaching gear, including the Catalina…
Oh, yeah… 99% gear down unless depicted in a crash or in-flight… I only have one floatplane right now, a Kingfisher, and it’s in the “water”, as the PBY-5A in my next water-dio will be…
I believe certain marks of the Catalina and Kingfisher had integral landing gear—which I believe were more used for trollying them around on hardstands than anything else…
Gear down.