In an advertisement for this kit, they state that stacks of blueprints, handbooks, field manuals and photographs supplied by none other than Douglas engineers, major airlines and even the United States military were used to produce these “super-detailed” plans. During that time, model building was very popular and Maricraft (the manufacturer) wanted to set the bar for high quality scale model kits. When I first saw these I was shocked to learn these are plans for a wooden model made back in the 1940’s. Using Google image search for “DC-3 3-Views”, I came across the image that look like full size plans.
Fortunately, I managed to find some great ones from a very unusual source. The end result will be a model that looks pretty scale.įinding good quality & accurate scale 3-Views can be almost as much of a challenging as building. Things like the spars, formers and other parts of the model are drawn out on the drawings for use later as templates during construction. From there, I can overlay the views allowing me to know the width, height and length of all of the parts I need to cut to make the skeleton of the aircraft. I used Adobe Illustrator to import the 3-Views and created new layers to trace the outlines of the views. These views (like the ones shown above) are usually basic line art drawings and not photographs.
3 – View drawings offer three different views (top, front & side) giving the modeler accurate overall measurements for depth, width & height (all necessary to create a model in 3 dimensions).
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