XIII Master
Hobby Show 2011

Part 2:
Airliners and aviation pioneers

by Orlando Sucre

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Hello, fellow modelers and readers. I want to share some
photographs of models exposed at the XIII Master Hobby Show that took place in Caracas, Venezuela,
on June 11 and 12, 2011. The Master Hobby Show is an annual event organized by
the Club de Modelismo (Modelers Club) 2000. I’ll show the photographs in
several articles.

In this article I’ll focus in airliners and
aviation pioneers. I was surprised by the high number of models from the
Venezuelan now extinct airline VIASA (Venezolana Internacional de Aviación,
S.A.) that were exposed. These orange-tailed airliners gave the exposition a
touch of nostalgia.

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Every year there’s an open category dedicated to
models of a specific country. The country of this year was France.
Surprisingly enough, the model that won the ‘gold’ prize in this
category was a cardboard model of a French airliner, a Latécoere
(photo # 11.) Another eye catching model was a Junkers Ju-52 showing a complete
interior (photo # 12.) There were also two airliners in russian Aeroflot markings, not a common sight indeed.

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The last two photographs are from planes designed and
built by pioneers of the aviation. One is a cardboard model of the Clément Ader’s
“Éole,” the other is a vignette of
the Kill Devil Hill’s dunes including the old Monogram model of the Flyer
from the Wright brothers in her historic first flight (I built one of these
when I was a teenager, and I’m still waiting for the release of the Flyer
in 1/72 scale.)

I hope you’ll enjoy the photographs. Greetings from Caracas,
Venezuela.

Orlando Sucre
Rosales

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Photos and text ©
by Orlando Sucre Rosales