1/48 JMGT Caudron C450

Gallery Article by Hubert Louis on May 21 2015

 

      

1/48 Caudron C450 JMGT, Decals FFSMC

On August 8, 1934, Hélène Boucher took off to fly as quickly as possible on a 3km circuit. Two pylons marked each end of the circuit. With her blue Caudron marked with number 13, she beat the international record speed over 1000km on all category at an average speed of 409.187km/h.

On August 11, 1934 she broke the world speed record and became the "quickest human of the world" at the speed of 445.028km/h.

She died at an early age of 26 on a test flight near Versailles when the machine crashed into the woods of Guyancourt.

The Kit: JMGT 1/48 Caudron C460 (resin) 

  • The caudron will be part of a diorama with a figure representing Hélène Boucher.

  • The cockpit and the instrument panel were remade.

  • Louvres are redone with a piece of alu of food box (In the right direction). 

  • New air intake.

  • New oil cooler.

  • The nose of the plane was modified. 

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Hélène Boucher

  • I cut all the moving parts because I could not rewrite them correctly.

  • New fuselage side.

  • The landing gear is scratch built.

  • New blades.

  • Scratch built figure.

  • NEW  DECALS come from   FFSMC . They are perfect .    The shape, color (tricolor), the thickness of the support and in addition they are solid:       ffsmc-productions.com

All the build in english:  http://www.britmodeller.com/forums/index.php?/topic/234941954-finished-helene-boucher-148-caudron-racer-c450-jmgt-ffsmc-decals/

Tout le montage en francais :  http://www.master194.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=75635&sid=97b81fd28fadc4060aed9fe76cf926a4

Hubert Louis

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Photos and text © by Hubert Louis