One of the finest pieces of balsa building I have ever seen! (& I've seen quite a few) - and certainly the most complex. Pretty decent in the air too. BRAVO!
All the way through , I thought how is this going to fly with these small props but then I noticed the big one in the front. Still one of the nicest and most complex balsa free flight models.
I am really glad to see that it was powered by one large prop. My brain would have exploded if I saw that it was powered by the tiny props on the wing.
@@Skyprince27 not to be rude but how could paper survive water . also takes a much longer take off roll on water because of drag so it wouldn't have enough power to fly either.
Beautiful 😊 This is one of the few channels I automatically click thumbs-up before I watch the video so that I do not forget. There is just something about them that makes me happy, thank you for the work that you do and allowing us to share in the results.
Hi Tom, I am fifty-five years old and last year, for a joke, my friend gave me a Vintage Models ME BF109 for Christmas. I accepted the challenge and over the course of the year I made it to the best of my ability. Whilst doing so, I took one look at those fragile (uncovered) wings and thought 'this is never going to fly, and if it does, it'll break on its first landing'. In consequence, I concentrated on its appearance, adding some extra scale details, etc. - though, thankfully, I didn't make the mistake of painting it. Having displayed my rather beautiful creation to my amazed friend, I had a half-hearted attempt at flying it and, to my utter disbelief, it flew, bloody well, too! To date, after only about thirty flight attempts, I've cracked a nineteen-second powered flight and a fifteen-second trimming glide. (Hardly the stuff of records but most encouraging for my first attempts.) I live in the beautiful rural West Country in England and I suspect the last time a 109 was seen blazing over the Marshwood Vale was in 1940 during the Battle of Britain! So, imagine my delight when I discovered your videos and saw what wonders rubber-powered planes can achieve with a little care, attention and a few insider tips. In consequence, I've cut off all the unnecessary detailing from my plane, removed unnecessary stringers and wood from the rear to lighten it for a better flying performance. My goal is a forty-second flight. I've quickly come to realize that there is something very special and unique about rubber-powered planes, they occupy a very pure form of modelling where you pit(ch) your wits against the laws of Nature. It's definitely a thinking man's hobby. I confess, I am hooked and, being lucky enough to own my own beautiful flying field right outside my back door, have just ordered a Vintage Models 28" Hurricane, with which I hope to emulate some of your success with your Seafire. It is nothing short of an inspiration to see the unbelievable standard of your modelling skills - the Dornier DO-X is ridiculously AMAZING - and I can assure you that your videos will force me to re-evaluate just how well a model can be made, not just to look good, but to fly bloody well, too! Please, keep the videos coming. Here's three questions for you: first, the nose-to-peg distance on my 109 is 6½", what motor would you recommend?; second, how did you achieve those beautiful, thin and straight, panel lines on the Dornier?; third, what balsa glue do you use, I can hardly see any evidence of it on your models?
That's quite a story. The power of free-flight. In this digital age, there's a simplistic beauty in rubber-powered aircraft that is well worth experiencing, for some at least. Continued success with your future ships. Thanks too for your kind words. The lines on the DO-X were created with a Copic pen and a straight edge...prior to covering, however. I use Titebond wood glue, applied with a pin and wiped clean as best I can. Cheers.
This Dornier MUST be your nineth Symphony ,I would not imagine it would work ,but heck the spirit of man can't be stopped, and excellent job, congratulations.
Great job! Amazing! for me, who attended the military college named after Umberto Maddalena (visible in the background images of Cadimare, Gulf of La Spezia) this video is an immense pleasure.
Absolutely immaculate balsa wood model construction ! Well done ... you must enjoy flying it after all the work building this fantastic flying boat. I have seen the Dornier and other flying boats that were designed and built early in the 20th century documented in many books that have been published about them. A truly bizarre phase of civil aviation with its peak years between the world wars - 1920's through the 1940's ! Thank you.
The time,care and attention to detail is by far art at its finest that I’m sure the creators of the kit only envisioned someone would take the care in building! Your videos once again give me a path, thank you for your hard work! God bless
Thx. I've always enjoyed flying this ship. However she was scratch built using 3-views and photos. Based on the 42" electric design that Don Srull first flew in the late 80s. You can see it here around the 1:35 mark. th-cam.com/video/BnpI0TNX8sU/w-d-xo.html
Once again an incredible piece of craftmanship. I am in complete awe of your skills and attention to detail. Not only that, but your models always fly beautifully too!
What a beautiful masterpiece l never thought it would fly that well l am a r c pilot but to see this it’s remarkable very very nice l enjoyed watching your video well done cheers
Una verdadera joya de arte del aeromodelismo, el trazo del plano, la filmación, la música de fondo así como del vuelo, que comentaría Juan Salvador Gaviota. Bravooo, arriba el arte .
I have to echo some of the comments about how it was going to fly. I wondered also how you get all those props wound up. All was revealed! Another echo on how truly wonderful the construction was. I have started building these types of planes recently I can only hope that I will be half as good as you.
@@maxfliart Why not convert to electrics and remove that preposterous thing in the center? These days the micro stuff and batts are small and light enough. Very nice model by the way. Too sweet to risk flying unless you can have some control surely. I understand the best part is over once its finished and even the first flight is just the cherry as a builder myself but still..
@@GrassPossum Surely that's a good option for many flyers, but the model was built for Rubber Scale in the Flying Aces Club competition. Bonus points are given for various configurations, but the model must be rubber powered. I enjoyed the challenge.
I was trying to get my head around "how wind-up 8+ props". I like your answer. have you give any thought to flying on water????? Do you have more videos on it ???
Thx. There are numerous flights by her on YT. It was never intended to fly over or rise off water. That would be rather impossible for rubber, I'm sure, unless you flew it with electric motors perhaps.
@@maxfliart you should try adding an hidrofoil rigged to move in tandem with the elevons (or whatever they're called in english) under the center of gravity, it should help getting the keel out of the water then the wings should be enough tu pull the hidrofoil too. just get something to get it back too since you cant land it on land and you surely can not taxi back to shore
This brings back memories of buying a rubber powered balsa wood plane at a local ‘variety store’ for a dime & heading out to a park or an empty parking lot on Sundays to fly it. It was great fun till it disintegrated from frequent handling & flying.
Its a beautiful flying model. I have seen actual RC planes that flew one did crash. All that work ...Gone. Yeah I couldnt handle the loss. At least foam planes are easily repaired. I fly both. I built a rubber powered Cessna 128 as a kid. It broke on my third attempt at flying it. Last year I got an RC electric Cessna. The thing flew great for most of the year, then the electronics failed in it. I ended up letting the neighbor hood kids have it as a play glider.
That was a beautifully built model plane, the best I managed years ago was an unfinished balsa wood kit Spitfire which I never finished! Thanks for posting.
I totally agree. In the past I have tried to get Kiel Kraft models to fly with an almost complete lack of success. At least I have a model of the Do-X in 1/144th scale (plastic)
now that's a flying boat!!! beautiful flying scale model, when i was a kid i used to build guillows brand kits. some rubber powered, some 010, 020 and 049 gas engines. some were control line models and free flight. i still have a sterling brand stearman i've been meaning for the past 40 yrs. my other big idea is to build the graf zeppelin for flight.
Please take the big prop off the front . Its much better as it was intended with the 12 and leave it as a static model . Excellent construction and finish.
I really enjoy the beautiful arrangement of the videos and the accompanying music are always a joy to hear. This one really hit the feels and I couldn't quite put my finger on it as the music is from Kevin MacLeod,.. then I heard the quaint simularites to the Mass Effect 3: Liara's Vigil and then I knew why the tune was so comforting. BTW, since watching your Video's I have completed a Guillows P-51D that I started back in 99' and I originally built (poorly) as a teenager more than 40 years ago. I just launched my first scratch built Slingby Falcon glider, and learned quite a few things along the way applying the many tips you have shown throughout your start to finish videos. Still making mistakes, but learning also along the way. It's a journey, not a race
Beautiful work but can't help notice the huge nose prop- was thinking it would actually use the wing motors but be rubber powered - I can see why it was done but still... would have been absolutely awesome if you had figured that one out.
I think the 2 problems would have been: A) flight duration, since they're short, but I did see a twin engine rubber powered recently withsimilar sized engine pods, albeit they only had one prop. B) probably due to assuming from the start they'd never drive it anyway, the hand crafted props. To work this would have taken a matched set of 8 very well crafted props given the scale and these balsa versions would amount only to mockups under those circumstances.
A miniature work-of-art.maybe a couple of the dummy engine pods could be fitted with electric motors fed from a small battery in the fuselage, replacing the rubber power and that big prop at the front.
I built a few control line planes from just plans and raw balsa and thought I was doing something.... lol@me. Great stuff sir. Really enjoy both the craftsmanship displayed but the videography is great as well. Look forward to more. Thanks.
Anyone else think the mock propellers we're going to be the power? Great job and I fully understand at that scale it would be pretty hard to make those rubber powerd. But I sure was wondering the whole video how in the heck you were going to pull it off! Beautiful aircraft, loving your vids
I was wondering how they were going to get all those engines wound up. This is a whole nother level of modeling! I have been around experimental airplanes almost as long as my memory and if they were all built to the quality standards of these models we would have some fantastic airplanes flying!
Unbelievable! An absolute work of art. Who knew it would fly that elegantly with 12 little propellers creating all that drag?
Thx, Steve. I thought exactly the same....couldn't believe she'd fly for more than a single circle. Was a dream after the many month of building time.
@@maxfliart ...and all that magnificent detail.
One of the finest pieces of balsa building I have ever seen!
(& I've seen quite a few)
- and certainly the most complex.
Pretty decent in the air too.
BRAVO!
Half way through, I was thinking "Don't fly it, it's too beautiful"! Nicely done.
I'm glad he did though! Waaay cool!
All the way through , I thought how is this going to fly with these small props but then I noticed the big one in the front.
Still one of the nicest and most complex balsa free flight models.
I am really glad to see that it was powered by one large prop. My brain would have exploded if I saw that it was powered by the tiny props on the wing.
@longshot7601
I figured it would be something with pulleys and they would all be turning and it would take off from water.
SO disappointed ☹️!
@@Skyprince27 not to be rude but how could paper survive water . also takes a much longer take off roll on water because of drag so it wouldn't have enough power to fly either.
@ferrarikingdom
You apply a very thin coat of varnish to the paper.
@@Skyprince27 still not enough power. To take off
Beautiful 😊
This is one of the few channels I automatically click thumbs-up before I watch the video so that I do not forget. There is just something about them that makes me happy, thank you for the work that you do and allowing us to share in the results.
Thx for the kind words. Very thoughtful.
@@maxfliart me gustaria que en tu proccimo video isieras un tutirial de como hacer las elices y el motor porfavor telo agradeseria muchisimo
Hi Tom, I am fifty-five years old and last year, for a joke, my friend gave me a Vintage Models ME BF109 for Christmas. I accepted the challenge and over the course of the year I made it to the best of my ability. Whilst doing so, I took one look at those fragile (uncovered) wings and thought 'this is never going to fly, and if it does, it'll break on its first landing'. In consequence, I concentrated on its appearance, adding some extra scale details, etc. - though, thankfully, I didn't make the mistake of painting it. Having displayed my rather beautiful creation to my amazed friend, I had a half-hearted attempt at flying it and, to my utter disbelief, it flew, bloody well, too! To date, after only about thirty flight attempts, I've cracked a nineteen-second powered flight and a fifteen-second trimming glide. (Hardly the stuff of records but most encouraging for my first attempts.) I live in the beautiful rural West Country in England and I suspect the last time a 109 was seen blazing over the Marshwood Vale was in 1940 during the Battle of Britain!
So, imagine my delight when I discovered your videos and saw what wonders rubber-powered planes can achieve with a little care, attention and a few insider tips. In consequence, I've cut off all the unnecessary detailing from my plane, removed unnecessary stringers and wood from the rear to lighten it for a better flying performance. My goal is a forty-second flight. I've quickly come to realize that there is something very special and unique about rubber-powered planes, they occupy a very pure form of modelling where you pit(ch) your wits against the laws of Nature. It's definitely a thinking man's hobby. I confess, I am hooked and, being lucky enough to own my own beautiful flying field right outside my back door, have just ordered a Vintage Models 28" Hurricane, with which I hope to emulate some of your success with your Seafire.
It is nothing short of an inspiration to see the unbelievable standard of your modelling skills - the Dornier DO-X is ridiculously AMAZING - and I can assure you that your videos will force me to re-evaluate just how well a model can be made, not just to look good, but to fly bloody well, too!
Please, keep the videos coming.
Here's three questions for you: first, the nose-to-peg distance on my 109 is 6½", what motor would you recommend?; second, how did you achieve those beautiful, thin and straight, panel lines on the Dornier?; third, what balsa glue do you use, I can hardly see any evidence of it on your models?
That's quite a story. The power of free-flight. In this digital age, there's a simplistic beauty in rubber-powered aircraft that is well worth experiencing, for some at least. Continued success with your future ships.
Thanks too for your kind words. The lines on the DO-X were created with a Copic pen and a straight edge...prior to covering, however. I use Titebond wood glue, applied with a pin and wiped clean as best I can. Cheers.
Unbelievable craftsmanship, and it flies beautifully! I am in awe of your skills Tom!
A very beautiful aircraft and model. It was a pleasure to watch your nice video. Thanks for sharing.
This Dornier MUST be your nineth Symphony ,I would not imagine it would work ,but heck the spirit of man can't be stopped, and excellent job, congratulations.
the amount of thought, effort and craftsmanship that went into this project is unimaginable...Bravo!
I am so fortunate to see such talent in my lifetime. This is a dying art, I applaud your incredible talent. I wish I could learn this.
Wonderful craftsmanship, anyone who has ever built a freeflight balsa model will know just how exceptional this work is, bravo!!
Mr. Hallman your building skills are of the highest order, and I've seen and built balsa models for over 40 years. Thank you so much for sharing!
Model aviation in it's purest form, beautiful.
Yes but it's so difficult
Especially for model like this
I love this aircraft. Absolutely fantastic. One of my favourites.
Magnificent .. museum quality for sure. The fact that it flies so well blows my mind. Thanks for sharing this incredible project.
Really cool. Amazing craftsmanship and flight. Bravo!!
A fantastic achievement of building and flying. The climb rate in scale is certainly far better than the original flying boat.
Beautiful build. I sped up the video to 1.75X and the music was better there.
you gave the flying boat live again,
so real in many aspects
I bet the men that flew these planes would be honored and proud to these birds fly again, even as models.
Great job! Amazing! for me, who attended the military college named after Umberto Maddalena (visible in the background images of Cadimare, Gulf of La Spezia) this video is an immense pleasure.
Terrific. Glad the film brought u an unexpected pleasure.
Fantastic, especially with all that detail and it is still a great flyer! Thanks!
Your videos are like medicine for my soul. Please keep on healing us.
Absolutely immaculate balsa wood model construction ! Well done ... you must enjoy flying it after all the work building this fantastic flying boat. I have seen the Dornier and other flying boats that were designed and built early in the 20th century documented in many books that have been published about them.
A truly bizarre phase of civil aviation with its peak years between the world wars - 1920's through the 1940's !
Thank you.
Now you’re just showing off! Holy cow what a complex build!
Beautiful job. Now I want to step on all the scale models I built!
My grandmother did exactly that to mine 40 years ago.
Been binge watching your stuff all morning. Definitely gained a subscriber, super therapeutic to watch.
Oh my word are you kidding me? Obscene levels of talent here.
The time,care and attention to detail is by far art at its finest that I’m sure the creators of the kit only envisioned someone would take the care in building! Your videos once again give me a path, thank you for your hard work! God bless
Thx. I've always enjoyed flying this ship. However she was scratch built using 3-views and photos. Based on the 42" electric design that Don Srull first flew in the late 80s. You can see it here around the 1:35 mark. th-cam.com/video/BnpI0TNX8sU/w-d-xo.html
You are a master
The complex build turned out to be so good. I would like to see a full free flight of this wonderful looking model.
That's not a model plane , that is art !!!
Jaw dropping. I like the way you gave it just a touch of dihedral.
Once again an incredible piece of craftmanship. I am in complete awe of your skills and attention to detail. Not only that, but your models always fly beautifully too!
Ingenious and remarkable! An inspiration to all balsa scratch build designers. 👍
A masterpiece executed by a true craftsman. Thank you for sharing.
When you see something like this . You just feel like stop model making , it is far far better then any thing I will ever be able to make !
That is some stunningly fantastic master craftsmanship.
AUS29568 Those were the same words I thought watching the video before I looked at the comments ☺
The windscreen has always fascinated me. Love it.
Remarkable...and it flies beautifully. Museum quality work.
What a beautiful masterpiece l never thought it would fly that well l am a r c pilot but to see this it’s remarkable very very nice l enjoyed watching your video well done cheers
Beautiful job!
The junkers ailerons on the top of the wing are pretty rad.
Well done! You even corrected the thrust alignment problem in the original design with that big propeller on the nose.
Una verdadera joya de arte del aeromodelismo, el trazo del plano, la filmación, la música de fondo así como del vuelo, que comentaría Juan Salvador Gaviota. Bravooo, arriba el arte .
Fantastic attention to detail; a tour de force!
I have to echo some of the comments about how it was going to fly. I wondered also how you get all those props wound up. All was revealed! Another echo on how truly wonderful the construction was. I have started building these types of planes recently I can only hope that I will be half as good as you.
Incredible workmanship. And flies beautifully.
Amazing craftsmanship! My only (too late) suggestion would have been to use a matte black nose prop so it wouldn't flash so obviously in the sun.
Thx, that's a good idea. I'll give it a shot next time I take her out. Directional ight can be a funny thing sometimes.
@@maxfliart Why not convert to electrics and remove that preposterous thing in the center? These days the micro stuff and batts are small and light enough. Very nice model by the way. Too sweet to risk flying unless you can have some control surely. I understand the best part is over once its finished and even the first flight is just the cherry as a builder myself but still..
@@GrassPossum Surely that's a good option for many flyers, but the model was built for Rubber Scale in the Flying Aces Club competition. Bonus points are given for various configurations, but the model must be rubber powered. I enjoyed the challenge.
@@maxfliart Of course I assumed it was made to rule. Just that having done the judging I'd love to see it fly free.
I was trying to get my head around "how wind-up 8+ props". I like your answer. have you give any thought to flying on water?????
Do you have more videos on it ???
Thx. There are numerous flights by her on YT. It was never intended to fly over or rise off water. That would be rather impossible for rubber, I'm sure, unless you flew it with electric motors perhaps.
@@maxfliart you should try adding an hidrofoil rigged to move in tandem with the elevons (or whatever they're called in english) under the center of gravity, it should help getting the keel out of the water then the wings should be enough tu pull the hidrofoil too.
just get something to get it back too since you cant land it on land and you surely can not taxi back to shore
@NPC
Rowboat! 🚣♀️ 🌊🌊🌊✈️🌊
Wow I'm very impressed I built a few when I was younger and man lots of patience and time she's beautiful great job man love seeing it fly
Absolutely amazing! VERY impressive craftsmanship, my friend.
Only three were built by Dornier in Germany, two of them were sold to Italy. In the early 1930s, it was something like the 747 is nowadays.
A380*
@@niljansoria6825 , On a eu exactement la même réaction !! 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Fine build and real craftsmanship
Simply exquisite! The music is excellent too.
Wow - what a masterpiece! Flight looked amazing, too!
Absolutely amazing. What beautiful art!
This brings back memories of buying a rubber powered balsa wood plane at a local ‘variety store’ for a dime & heading out to a park or an empty parking lot on Sundays to fly it. It was great fun till it disintegrated from frequent handling & flying.
i love disintegrating planes actually
Its a beautiful flying model. I have seen actual RC planes that flew one did crash. All that work ...Gone. Yeah I couldnt handle the loss. At least foam planes are easily repaired. I fly both. I built a rubber powered Cessna 128 as a kid. It broke on my third attempt at flying it. Last year I got an RC electric Cessna. The thing flew great for most of the year, then the electronics failed in it. I ended up letting the neighbor hood kids have it as a play glider.
My day has improved watching this.
That was a beautifully built model plane, the best I managed years ago was an unfinished balsa wood kit Spitfire which I never finished! Thanks for posting.
I totally agree. In the past I have tried to get Kiel Kraft models to fly with an almost complete lack of success. At least I have a model of the Do-X in 1/144th scale (plastic)
Very Beautiful! Excellent Craftsmanship and wonderful flight! The music was a very nice addition as well! Very Well Done!
What a beautiful plane, captain.👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
now that's a flying boat!!! beautiful flying scale model, when i was a kid i used to build guillows brand kits. some rubber powered, some 010, 020 and 049 gas engines. some were control line models and free flight. i still have a sterling brand stearman i've been meaning for the past 40 yrs. my other big idea is to build the graf zeppelin for flight.
That is not just a model, its artwork.
Beautiful video and thanks very much for using my music. All the best, Matthew Schildt
You sir are a craftsman...love the clean true structures!
Wow! What a piece of art! Amazing work. Thanks for posting.
Please take the big prop off the front . Its much better as it was intended with the 12 and leave it as a static model . Excellent construction and finish.
Thats a piece of art, awesome.
Another work of art, just beautiful,
Nice design and paint job !
It's amazing how long you managed to get it to stay in the air. Excellent job!
I really enjoy the beautiful arrangement of the videos and the accompanying music are always a joy to hear.
This one really hit the feels and I couldn't quite put my finger on it as the music is from Kevin MacLeod,.. then I heard the quaint simularites to the Mass Effect 3: Liara's Vigil and then I knew why the tune was so comforting.
BTW, since watching your Video's I have completed a Guillows P-51D that I started back in 99' and I originally built (poorly) as a teenager more than 40 years ago. I just launched my first scratch built Slingby Falcon glider, and learned quite a few things along the way applying the many tips you have shown throughout your start to finish videos. Still making mistakes, but learning also along the way. It's a journey, not a race
Beautiful work but can't help notice the huge nose prop- was thinking it would actually use the wing motors but be rubber powered - I can see why it was done but still... would have been absolutely awesome if you had figured that one out.
I think the 2 problems would have been: A) flight duration, since they're short, but I did see a twin engine rubber powered recently withsimilar sized engine pods, albeit they only had one prop. B) probably due to assuming from the start they'd never drive it anyway, the hand crafted props. To work this would have taken a matched set of 8 very well crafted props given the scale and these balsa versions would amount only to mockups under those circumstances.
Che dire ? Spettacolare , come tutti gli altri progetti !!
hats off to you sir thank you very much for sharing your passion and fine craftsmanship
Great build, very impressive. Well done and it flew very well.
Stunning, just stunning.
Congratiolations! Masterpiece in rubberpowered models!
Very nicely done. Beautiful airplane.
A miniature work-of-art.maybe a couple of the dummy engine pods could be fitted with electric motors fed from a small battery in the fuselage, replacing the rubber power and that big prop at the front.
Wow ! Beautiful. You are a master modeler. Thank you for sharing your artwork.
Wow this model really is a thing of beauty and artistry I salute you 👍🏻
This my friend is a work of art...I would love to know how to build like that...love Itallians aircraft.....especially the can't seaplanes
phenomenal craftsmanship!
Beautiful. Excellent craftsmanship! I would be afraid to fly it.....but you did! And it appears to be a nice flyer. My hat's off to you.
I built a few control line planes from just plans and raw balsa and thought I was doing something.... lol@me. Great stuff sir. Really enjoy both the craftsmanship displayed but the videography is great as well. Look forward to more. Thanks.
Beautifully built. Congratulations on a great model.
Beautiful model. Very ambitious.
And it flies better than the original!
Who would ever thumbs down this . I’m very confused with how the world thinks theses days
I really liked how you scalloped the formers that is going to help my next project look allot cleaner.
wow great vid lovely aircraft credit to you sir such a peaceful looking plane great workmanship
Miyazaki Sensei would love this dream!!!
Anyone else think the mock propellers we're going to be the power? Great job and I fully understand at that scale it would be pretty hard to make those rubber powerd. But I sure was wondering the whole video how in the heck you were going to pull it off! Beautiful aircraft, loving your vids
WOW amazing skills, amazing model, amazing flight
Just wow....Absolutely beautiful
A true work of art. Congratulations!
Truly a work of art
I was wondering how they were going to get all those engines wound up. This is a whole nother level of modeling! I have been around experimental airplanes almost as long as my memory and if they were all built to the quality standards of these models we would have some fantastic airplanes flying!