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Don C | Dave Diels Engineering, Inc Plan #59, Curtiss C-46 Commando | Reference | 24-Mar-15 23:18 | ![](user_aircraft_thumb100/33624.jpg) | Views : 443 | This one's about 55. Quite an interesting aircraft. |
Don C | Dave Diels Engineering, Inc Plan #59, Curtiss C-46 Commando | Reference | 22-Mar-15 10:59 | ![](user_aircraft_thumb100/33583.jpg) | Views : 416 | DD, been meaning to upload this for you for a while now. This was 25 Jan, looking east to SE at sunset. Highly unusual. |
Don C | Dave Diels Engineering, Inc Plan #59, Curtiss C-46 Commando | Build | 20-Mar-15 17:13 | ![](user_aircraft_thumb100/33558.jpg) | Views : 473 | In the factory they had 2 guys holding a form and another with the spray gun. Sure must have made getting the camo lines about the same on each side. |
Don C | Dave Diels Engineering, Inc Plan #59, Curtiss C-46 Commando | Parked | 20-Mar-15 17:08 | ![](user_aircraft_thumb100/33557.jpg) | Views : 470 | |
Don C | Dave Diels Engineering, Inc Plan #59, Curtiss C-46 Commando | Build | 20-Mar-15 17:07 | ![](user_aircraft_thumb100/33556.jpg) | Views : 548 | It works. |
Don C | Dave Diels Engineering, Inc Plan #59, Curtiss C-46 Commando | Reference | 03-Mar-15 23:52 | ![](user_aircraft_thumb100/33376.jpg) | Views : 494 | Friends, it is with heavy heart that I pos this photo of Captain Richard B. Clauson, USAAF, a member pf the greatest generation, who pased away last nignt eight weeks shy of his 93rd birthday. It is his C-46 I have been recreating this winter. I'll be gone for a while. If you know any of these guys, visit and talk to them while you can. |
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Don C | Dave Diels Engineering, Inc Plan #59, Curtiss C-46 Commando | Build | 03-Mar-15 11:45 | ![](user_aircraft_thumb100/33369.jpg) | Views : 430 | Different angle |
Don C | Dave Diels Engineering, Inc Plan #59, Curtiss C-46 Commando | Build | 03-Mar-15 11:44 | ![](user_aircraft_thumb100/33368.jpg) | Views : 438 | David. Here are 2 shots with no artificial light at all. This is a stock acrylic. Ihave tried adding yellow and/or brown in varying amounts, but this is closer to the Model Master OD than my mixes. I could use some advice from the artist. As you mentioned. Seems just a tad too green. |
Don C | Dave Diels Engineering, Inc Plan #59, Curtiss C-46 Commando | Reference | 02-Mar-15 13:32 | ![](user_aircraft_thumb100/33356.jpg) | Views : 492 | Rayl. I've had these for a long time, but don't use them any more. Could you? |
Don C | Dave Diels Engineering, Inc Plan #59, Curtiss C-46 Commando | Build | 02-Mar-15 13:29 | ![](user_aircraft_thumb100/33355.jpg) | Views : 440 | Navigator's dome per rayl. |
Don C | Dave Diels Engineering, Inc Plan #59, Curtiss C-46 Commando | Build | 02-Mar-15 13:27 | ![](user_aircraft_thumb100/33354.jpg) | Views : 524 | Fully fledged and ready for pain. Acrylics or Model Master Spray? Need to see if I can mix enough OD to give it all a few coats that are the same. |
Don C | Dave Diels Engineering, Inc Plan #59, Curtiss C-46 Commando | Build | 02-Mar-15 13:19 | ![](user_aircraft_thumb100/33353.jpg) | Views : 444 | Curtis covered the wing joint. |
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