Seeing George Mustafa’s excellent job on the Cedar Creek 1:24 snap together Beaver prompted me to offer a few snaps of the one I built. 

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The model is a representation of SN 145, CF-GYP, in the colours of Les Ailes  Du Nord/Northern Wings Ltd, back in the late 1960’s when I flew it. I decided to forego the floats and scratchbuilt a set of wheel-skis. I cheated a little, since the those on the model are deHavilland and the real aircraft had Federal skis. Like George, I cut away and repositioned the flaps and control surfaces including the trim tabs, and built a complete interior. I used 1/16 inch clear acrylic for the windows and windshield. The cabin doors are made up of a sandwich of .010 aluminum flashing from a home construction site as an outer skin, with a middle layer of the aforesaid 1/16 acrylic for the windows and another skin of .020 flashing from the same source as the inner panel.  When I flew it, the airplane had the round porthole instead of the rear window. On the ski plane the short summer exhaust stack was replaced with the long smokestack that incorporated a heater tube running the length of it. Air entered that little funnel-shaped thingy at the front where it was heated to the approximate temperature of bowel gas, then was distributed to the cabin for heat/windshield defrosting. The green item in the left front door pocket is the aircraft journey log book, the little rod sticking out of the cockpit roof is the outside air  temperature probe and the red thing in the left wing root fairing is the cap for the ski hydraulic reservoir.  

Paints used are Ford Arctic  white and Dove grey, from a rattle can supplied by a friend who owns an automotive accessories store, and Tamiya Orange. The eagle feathers are home made from decal paper and the company titles are from J-Bot.

Jim Court