1/8 scale Cessna L-19/O-1 ceiling hanger

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1/8 scale Cessna L-19/O-1 ceiling hanger

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A couple years ago, we had a small, rustic cabin built out at our little ranch in the country that we call Brokenoak. We've been outfitting and decorating the cabin since then and recently added a new feature. One of my dear friends owns a cabinet shop by trade but is also a great RC enthusiast. He spends many weekends each year down at the famed Bomber Field RC airfield. He started small but now flies really large models, some with 10–12-foot wingspans or more. I asked him if he had an older RC plane that he no longer flew. Charles is also one of a group of my friends that have been meeting out there for years and when told I wanted to hang it in our cabin, he went to work! Next thing you know, he's bringing over a plane that someone had given him many years earlier that had never been completed or flown.

It had no windows, or engine, but he did have a clear nose-piece for the front. The wings had never been attached either, so I made some locating pins and set them in the mounting nuts to mark the holes. I also cut some clear plastic for windows and sprayed the pieces gloss black. Unfortunately, I them placed them outside to dry in the sun and sure enough, they badly warped in the heat. :headslap: Oh well, in they went, glued in place with Alene's Tacky Glue. :wink: I also had to cut a piece of styrene to fill the radio space in the belly. I had two or three different shades of rattlecan OD around, but none were a close match to the existing paint. I figured a bit of variation wouldn't be too noticeable. More noticeable are the upside-down decals that Charles pointed out to me. :lol: I don't know if he applied those or not. :wink:

I drilled holes through the wing where my "pins" had poked and found some machine screws that would tighten down. I fashioned some crude wire loops where I could attach monofilament lines and took her out to the cabin. In just a little while, she was banking overhead on an important recon mission!

Here's a view of the NW corner and West side window and operable louver above. The plane hangs just out of this frame.

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This is how she looked when I got her:

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The wingspan is between 42 and 43" and I think that works out to about 1/8 scale:

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wing location pins:

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After finishing my part:

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And now, hanging aloft in the bunkhouse at Brokenoak:

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These are all just iPhone pics but you get the idea, I'm sure. It was a fun little project and I'm indebted to my friend, Charles, for his generous donation. As an aside, Charles also handmade the two 3' screen doors from cedar lumber and planed and joined the boards for the countertop in the cabin! Here's a fairly recent, August 29 in fact, shot of the NW corner of the cabin:

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Great cabin, Gary. But it's an L-19/O-1 from Cessna, not an L-5.
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jeaton01 wrote: Thu Oct 31, 2024 4:05 pm Great cabin, Gary. But it's an L-19/O-1 from Cessna, not an L-5.
Thank you so much for that, John! :bow: And for the correction too! I think Charles had just guessed at it but now I know! :grin:
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Nice bird on the ceiling in your cabin. No propeller?
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Way too cool! Get it flying, rig it with era-appropriate misses and go pig hunting…
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BlackSheep214 wrote: Thu Oct 31, 2024 8:50 pm Nice bird on the ceiling in your cabin. No propeller?
Thanks, Tom! No, the prop is just spinnin' too fast to see! :lol:
LyleW wrote: Fri Nov 01, 2024 6:18 am Way too cool! Get it flying, rig it with era-appropriate misses and go pig hunting…
Thanks, Lyle! That's funny, dude; gimme a lil' time and I'll post a pic of my one and only involvement with flying models-an ancient Cox Dauntless that never left the ground! :lol:
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That's pretty nice,great display
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Tojo72 wrote: Sun Nov 03, 2024 7:20 am That's pretty nice,great display
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It sure gives a nice touch inside.
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Tojo72 wrote: Sun Nov 03, 2024 7:20 am That's pretty nice,great display
Thank you, Tony! :grin: I really like how it looks up there and now am thinking it needs a companion! :wink:
Stikpusher wrote: Sun Nov 03, 2024 7:59 am
Tojo72 wrote: Sun Nov 03, 2024 7:20 am That's pretty nice,great display
:P1:

It sure gives a nice touch inside.
Thanks, Carlos! :grin: Much appreciated! I need to take some more inside pics now that most of the project is done. I have a group of buddies who used to come out there about 3-4 times each year. We would shoot during the day and then build a campfire and cook steaks and have some refreshments. Several are good guitarists, and we'd often have great, live music. Our last meeting was Jan. 4, 2014 and here's the thing, most of the guys haven't seen the changes that have taken place out there, especially that cabin. It will be a good surprise when we meet again on November 14. I'm looking forward to that! :grin:

Here's a pic of the first fire in our wood stove in the cabin, from last year:

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The cabin floor; it's just 1x4" tongue-in-groove pine on a 3/4" plywood subfloor that I finished with Minwax varnish in the summer of '23:

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That's a little rifle rack that I built for holding our rifles while at the cabin. And no, I don't leave any valuables out there when we return home:

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Rolling stock:

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Outhouse:

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And a view of the cabin from the tank's dam, several months ago:

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So… when are you gonna have our first annual SPAM members only BBQ? :whistle: :giggles: :lashed:
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