For some professionals - retired pilots, serious aeronautical enthusiasts - a handcrafted wood model airplane displayed stately on a desk is as dignified an office decoration as there is. But you don't have to be a former flyboy or even a collector to appreciate the sophisticated beauty of a wood model airplane.
Precise craft
Great care and craftsmanship goes into creating a museum quality wood model airplane. Master craftsmen use exact blueprints of commercial, military, and civilian aircraft to ensure that every scale inch of the wood model airplane remains true to the original.
Solid blocks of handsome Philippine mahogany are cut, sculpted, and shaped entirely by hand before being sanded and prepped for painting. Several coats, often a dozen or more, of acrylic paint and clear lacquer are applied by skilled artists using detailed reference material in order to get every color, insignia, and serial number of the wood model airplane right. As more coats are applied, the finish of the wood airplane model grows satiny smooth and the surface appears to gain depth, making painted details such as nose-cone art and the faux aluminum skin of the wood model airplane look as realistic as possible. The result of all this painstaking care and attention to detail is an exquisite wood model airplane that must be seen to be truly appreciated.
From humble beginnings as a solid block of wood, through skilled sculpting and carving into the shape of nearly any famous historical aircraft, to the painstaking application of many coats of paint, handcrafting a wood model airplane is certainly a labor of love, the result of which makes a stunning addition to the collection of the airplane lover in your family. |  |
