William Wylam Plans
Bbunn302
Does anyone know if a collection of the wonderful detailed plans by Wylam
is available? Or a similarly detailed set of drawings by another author
whose name I can't recall?
OXMORON1
In article <19970603023...@ladder02.news.aol.com>,
bbun...@aol.com (Bbunn302) writes:
Believe you refer to Mr Nye.
Both of these artists are available from MODEL AVIATION NEWS.
Check them out at the news stand or hobby shop. Look in their ads in back.
They also printed individual books of selected prints of each about 25
years ago (Know because my daughter "colored" a couple of drawings for me
as her first art enterprise)
Please note that I refered to Nye and Wylam as artists, because some of
their WWII stuff is more art than fact, take care with your use of some of
their stuff as references. Overall most of it is good to great. Wylam's
Stinson series and Beech Staggerwing series are fantastic.
You can order direct from MAN's publisher(Air Age, I think) using plastic
money. Delivery is quick and reliable.
Rick
Don Stauffer
Bbunn302 wrote:
>
> Does anyone know if a collection of the wonderful detailed plans by Wylam
> is available? Or a similarly detailed set of drawings by another author
> whose name I can't recall?
Yes, I have seen them recently advertised in mail order aviation book
catalogs. Not only Wylam, but, I forget the other guy who used to do
them for a competing magazine. They have been published as paperback
8.5 x 11 books. I believe about four or five are now available.
--
Don Stauffer in Minneapolis
frank mitchell
The other draftsman in Joesph Nieto. Both worked in the thirties/forties
and both published in Model Airplane News. The drawings do look wonderful,
but be very careful; they are full of inaccuracies. For example, many of
the radii and dimensions noted are the radii and dimensions of the
drawing, not the airplane. A number
of the drawings are so far off as to be ridiculous, but I agree that they
are great to look at. Just don't use them to build from. Paul Matt, on the
other hand, produced drawings that are both great to look at and very
accurate.
frank mitchell
Forgot to mention in my previous post that both Wylam and Nieto (and also
Willis Nye, who did a number of naval aircraft drawings, among many
others), have been published several times in various collections. Check
out an issue of Model Airplane News; if they are in print, it would
probably be available through them