'Outdoor Girl' Curtiss Thrush

[Pete Fardell]

I started a build thread for this model on the old HPA, but have only just got around to starting on the actual build. 'Outdoor Girl' was the Curtiss Thrush sponsored by the cosmetic company of the same name, flown to a new endurance record of nearly ten days in Dec 1933, achieved with multiple air-to-air refuellings. Pilots were Helen Richie and Francis Marsalis.
I found quite a good drawing online and have quite a nice colour source in the form of a contemporary model in the Smithsonian. A helpful curator there sent me a couple of photos and confirmed that the fuselage is very dark blue.
There's also some is also some good film footage to be found, such as this on YouTube:

My own model will be for rubber, and with a span of about 32 inches will be approximately 1/12 scale.

So far I just have two fuselage sides.

[Pete Fardell]

A little bit of progress...
And a correction: Scale is 1/18, not 1/12 as stated before. The real Curtiss Thrush had a wingspan of 48ft, and mine will be about 32 inches.

[Marc Guerriero]

Are you using 1/8th for the longerons?

[Squirrelnet]

Nice aircraft and it looks like it'll be a nice replacement for the Comte after 'Shelfgate'