Cockpit Seat for Biplane
M y goal for yesterday was to get the cockpit seat for the new biplane built, painted and installed. As I mentioned in a previous blog entry, this biplane is for our garden railroad. This plane is approximately 1:24 scale which is slightly smaller than the 1:20.3 scale of the trains. Since this biplane will be positioned over tall plants a few feet over the garden railroad I figured being slightly smaller in scale was a good idea for getting just a little bit of forced perspective. I needed to make a seat for the cockpit mostly so the pilot could be positioned correctly and not fall into the fuselage of the plane. This wasn't about modeling an accurate seat but more about a sturdy place for the pilot to be mounted in the cockpit since the seat is not visible with the pilot in place. If the seat was visible, then I would have spent more time making it look like it belonged in the open cockpit of an old biplane. I had already made one seat f...