Subject: Re: wibault 73
From: "Submissions for ARC" <[email-masked]>
To: <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2007 10:20:32 -0700

Hi,
I just wanted to let you know your article went on ARC today.  Thanks again for sending it in.

Steve Bamford
Aircraft Resource Center
http://www.aircraftresourcecenter.com

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  Subject: wibault 73

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  "Wibault  73 

  in 72nd scale" 

  by "Keith Hudson"
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  The Wiebault 7 series of french fighters was in many ways ahead of it's time- full metal construction with a corrugated skin surface, as well as a triple(!) banked inline lorraine engine- it was never used in great numbers by the French themselves but served with many of the smaller airforces of the world- among them Paraguay, Poland and Chile- with the Chilean ones having been built by Vickers with a Jupiter radial engine. As a fighter it was marginal at best- but still served long and honorably in many of these smaller air forces until the mid thirties. 

  The kit itself is a bit of a mystery to me- I think it may be a (very) early Dujin resin kit- soft tan resin , lots of air bubbles and the most interesting copper flat wire included in the package to be used for the struts. All in all not quite tamiya like quality but a fine starting place if you're in the mood for a little extra work.  The only usable parts in the kit are the basics- the fuselage sides, parasol wing  and tailplane assembly. After sanding the rather vague detail off the fuselage and thinning the somewhat thick wings I separated all of the bits that move- rudder, elevators and such -adding hinge posts and rounding the front edge of each moving piece. After scratch-building a rather generic interior and mating the fuselage halves it's time for the major challenge of this kit- restoring the fuselage and wing detail-with Tamiya tape to the rescue! One new knife blade, lots of stripped tape and 4 coats of heavy primer later an acceptable level of corrugated skin detail is restored . Next I soldered together a landing gear and the center N strut assembly out of the original copper strut material-the copper itself was soft enough to file a bit of an airfoil shape into it - and by using epoxy to attach the wing and the landing gear assemblies to the fuselage it was now solid and durable enough to work with during final painting and assembly. Initially I truly wanted to do a plane from the Gran Chaco war-but the complete absence of appropriate decals in my stash caused the shift to an early polish version of which I had most of the decals at hand. The unit (?) symbol T was the only one that had to be masked and painted-the rest are from an In-Tech sheet or two. After painting the complex paint scheme of dark green everywhere, decaling and some light post-shading with flat clearcoat mixed with black paint, it was time to hang all those interplane strut assemblies- now newly made from contrail strut material -attached to the kit with fine wire to give them the separation from their attachment points that the original seemed to have, add exhausts made from hypodermic stock, a few more wire details and you're there!                                                                       Click on images below to see larger images

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  my thanks to whomever made this kit of a rare aircraft that will probably never be made by a more mainstream company-please keep them coming!

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