Douglas DC-3 trumpeter 1/48 Alaska Airlines - Aircraft Model 

I was DC-3 mechanic back in the 80s. This model looks perfect. Now I work in Seattle airport, Alaska Air"s home and hub. Thanks for sharing this.

My jaw dropped to the ground when I saw those props spin. What can I say, I'm a sucker for electronics. Also everything else about this model is amazing!

Took one wild ride in 1980, at night from Missoula to Billings with a 20 man fire-crew. An old Johnson, Smokejumper's DC-3(?) with both sides bench seats locked upright, gear tied into aluminum floor. Crew on gear, or wherever else you could hold on. Turbulence dreadful. We survived, what a bird. Nice tribute, Plasmo..

Dear David, I had foolishly thought that you had reached a peak of perfection with the Viper. I was wrong! This is a step higher! Very well done for your work of art and your patience to explain each step to us 'normal' scale modelers.

Like the working prop and lights very nice.👍😁

now i need to assemble a few seats. - *slides mountain of plastic onto the table*

I'm a builder of homes, remodel old wooden interiors such as moldings door frames window frames, furniture, I like to bring back original wooden grain. This channel is a great example of details that make this an art form, it's very interesting to see your ideas come to light, breathing life into objects. Thank you.

I've learned more about electronics from this video than in 6 years in high school...well done!

Always my favorite Aircraft since I was a kid building in the 60's ! Love this video and thank you.

Beautiful work as usual Plasmo! I love it! Thank you for your videos my friend!

your plastic model skills are UNMATCHED!!!

Absolutelly AMAZING!!! I built He-162 by Tamiya yesterday using your best tips and now it looks much more better than my other models. Thank you ! Liked and shared. 👍🏻👌🏻👍🏻

Like other allready said. Wow, awesome build

True artist. Grade A content

Absolutely amazing work. Really enjoyed that and as always, I learned something new. Thanks for taking the time and effort to share your work

I thoroughly enjoyed watching you build that DC3,David, a masterpiece.

What a beautiful model of one of my all time favorite aircraft. You did such a authentic job that it's hard to tell from the full scale. Congratulations on such a great build!

Improving everyday. Amazing model. I like the working propellers and lights. They give life to the model.

Heat shrink tubing would help clean up your wiring and be much easier to work with rather than electrical tape. Very detailed and awesome work on an iconic american model. Let's see more. Happy holidays.

Phenomenal work, photography, editing, music, everything! Just wonderful. Thank you so much for this and all of your videos. You are super talented.

I never tire of watching these videos. Your skill and talent are incredible to watch. Truly amazing.

Nice work great plane and model. I like your videos. I wish i have 1/4 of your skills. Waiting for real hydraulic systems in your models😉.

So amazing. I've watched this video probably a dozen times and it just never gets old. It's probably my favorite video from PLASMO. I especially like the lighting and propeller action. Great video. Keep up the good work and once again, thanks for sharing.

Amazing, love the electronic addition. Really sets it apart.

Stunning! Really like how you made your own decals that were correct for Alaska Air... and painting the blue stripes on decal paper.... how cool. Love lights and props, and wiring layout. Thanks for posting this video!

For me one of the most iconic aircraft is the DC-3, it was very good model, I imagine the patience you must have to assemble, paint and finish a model like that, my best congratulations for this great work David, I was surprised , thanks for sharing.

This is an amazing build! I always learn so much from your videos. Thank you for taking the time to both educate and inspire us with these projects.

Well there you go again, taking things to a whole other level!!! Great job, amazing attention to detail 👍👍👍

So when PLASMO painted the seatbelts I said, "clearly he is nuts" then he painted the frikken' dials on the control panel. I surrender. I love the red pilots cabin. Love is a strong word. "I enjoy the peculiar hue of the control cabin." Alaskan Airlines' famous Ghost DC-3 (no passengers no pilot). Nice work, PLASMO.

I always feel like I owe you something for these videos. Stellar camera work and editing.

Love the detail of your projects! Above and beyond, well done.

Excellent work. I no longer build many 1/48 - scale aircraft but I watched this video with much satisfaction. Again, thank you for an inspirational build!

IT WORKS? I'm sold This is the best modelling channel

What a beautiful and poetic piece of modeling juelelry!

La qualité et la minutie des réalisations présentées dans cette chaîne sont stupéfiantes.

It's been years since I started a model. You inspire me to pick up a kit and get started again. Great job!

What a plane! and wow!! what a model kit building. so beautiful

Always a pleasure to see your movies .... Tks a lot Great job Congrats

Watching you apply those long blue stripe decals took me back:) being a kid and building all those VEB Plastikard airliners, with the metal tube of glue and silver paint in the box. Good times, but no, they never ended up looking like your models. But in my kid eyes they did:)

Fantastic work as always, us mere mortals can only stand back and admire. Thanks for sharing.

You should just use shrink tubes to seal the exposed wires. Much easier than having to roll tapes around the wire.

What an amazing achievement, I love the level of detail and patience you put into each model. I love this idea of adding lights and moving props Displays with functionality. Its given me a really good idea for a project I will be starting soon and now it HAS to have lights in. Well done David keep up the top quality work. Id suggest heat shrink for the wire connectors rather than electrical tape its a little easier imo and takes up less space. Look forward to the next one.

Excellent build. Love the lights you added. Thank you so much for the information. It’s helped me immensely.

The music that begins @20:37 is excellent and so are your building and painting skills.

You buliding a very, very amazing and beautiful models. I love it.😊

Terrific job, man! Love the lighting and weathering technique. Very inventive. I used to build models when I was younger. Then I had kids. (no regrets) This makes me want to get into it again, now that they're grown. Thanks for posting.

Yay! Another great upload from PLASMO! Thanks, it's a pleasure to watch.

That was a ceative way to mix small amounts of paint in the coffee creamer cups from the coffee shop. All the electric wiring for the lights and propellers was just amazing. Great job!

Wow, another great work David. This is something new the e-motors. Superb. greetings from good old germany :-D

Very excellent building - thanks - a pleasure to watch !!!

Thank you for sharing. I worked in airspace 40yrs. Beautiful work.

Awesome job. So glad you showed al of the parts used. After watching this I ordered the motors and the bit set fir some upcoming projects of mu own.

Just WOW! Nice job man. After this video i really want to build a flying airplane.

PLASMO POWER!!! 👍

A great kit and a marvelous build! The panel lines and weathering are just right - these are so often overdone on scale models. Truly a special build by skilled hands.

Excellent! Your modelling skills are matched by your video production skills. The DC3 is still the pinnacle of airplane design.

наверное лучший моделист на ютубе,приятно смотреть работу (хоть и нихрена не понимаю что он говорит)))

Excellent job, just loved your video

This is not just modelling "toys", its a work of art! Lights, props, the weathering... Truly amazing!

I love watching your videos, they just better and better. Awesome work and attention to detail.

Plasmo; Once again, a superb job on the model detail on one of my favorite aircraft...paining the decal line was an interesting solution...some suggestions: use enameled ultra small gauge "magnet wire" which you need much less room for, and can make disappear easier (scrape away enamel before soldering)...I think your fans would like to see this Gooney Bird presented in an Alaska airport diorama. Cheers

Great Looking Model! Today, I showed one of your videos to a friend who always mocks me for my hobby (a 17 year old scale modeller is a bit unusual around here) and he finally understood what draws me to this wonderful hobby of ours. Hope im not the only one here looking forward to lots of christmas/winter days spent at a working table..

This truly is brilliant modelling! Absolutely wonderful and your nicest video I've seen so far. More of this please!

Beautiful work, David! You are true artist. The wash always impresses me most, because it makes models look exactly like real planes.

Oh wow I never thought of wiring the plane thrue the holes in the wings so the propellers would work true profection 👌😊

love it!. Only thing I would change (personal opinion) is the brightness of the cockpit light. Maybe use less bright LED or add a resistor.. but that's just me. Great video!

this model would have been great anyway but the fact you added all the electronics and showed us how makes it even more awesome :D thanks for sharing.

love your use of coffee creamer cups to mix paints and thin, thanks for the tip i never thought of that before.

I would never fly with that airline again with all the wires everywhere for passengers to trip over, nevermind the 5000 watt spotlights in the cabin stopping us from sleeping. 😆 Great result. 👍

For wiring there's these markers that can draw conductive lines, so its possible not to put cable all over the place

Excellent attention to detail, as always. Well done and thanks for sharing.

Wow - beautiful work as usual and the lighting and engines working was amazing- one of my favourite oF your builds

Amazing modell. It would be nice if you would build a Mirage model like the 7-TP in 1:35 scale. Or another Mirage product. I think they're ok and you could give a nice review of their work!

That feeling when you finish working on the cockpit of an i-16 only to close it between the fuselages and not see any of your hard work

No, Sir, I don't just like and appreciate some of it. I really like and appreciate ALL of it 1000 percent!!! The craftsmanship and attention to detail that you put in to building this DC-3, and the great job that you did in videoing the build should make you very, very proud!!! I am honored to have the unique privilege of seeing you do this. Thank you very much for sharing it with us!!! I will be 73 y.o. this coming September (2020), and I truly wish that this modeler's hands were still steady enough to do this kind of model building again. But, I have to live with memories of my model building days, and vicariously enjoy the process while I watch others, such as yourself, carry on the model building hobby!!! Great Job!! I grew up in Racine, WI (USA) right along the western shore of Lake Michigan right before the jet airliner age started!!! This was right before O'Hare International Airport was built!!! I know very well the rumble of the twin engines of the DC-3 aircraft as they flew relatively low over our house!!! If you draw a straight flight path between Midway Airport on the extreme westside in Chicago, IL (USA), and General (Billy) Mitchell Field on the very farthest southern edge of Milwaukee, WI (USA), and you trace a perpendicular line from Lake Michigan to this flight path you can get a general idea of where I am talking about. The flight distance is a very short 90 air miles from Chicago to Milwaukee, so you can understand that the planes in those days (1950's) were pretty close over head... by today's jet airliner standards. I always felt as a kid that I might be able to reach straight up and touch them!!! 👍👽 Alas, one day the Boeing 707 jet liner took their place and flew impossibly higher overhead!!! The jetliner had arrived over our house and changed everything overnight!! The flight path(s) are now out of reach overhead, and the sounds of jet engines have replaced the sounds of reciprocating propeller planes (sigh!!!), and it has never been quite the same since then; and it is a lot more impersonal!!! But occasionally when the weather forces the jetliners to fly very low approach paths, the jetliners fly so low overhead and the sound of their engines (seems) like they are just about at roof top level, that I have to look up and wonder how it must have been right BEFORE the first airplane ever flew. (No, I don't want to go back to those days, thank you very much. 😎😄✈️ Thanks again for a superb job all the way around!!!👽👍😁 Terry

Amazing.. All the add ons you put into this plane are phenomenal.

I actually said "Holy shit plasmo." just from seeing that thumbnail!

Další video které mi dává důvod připadat si méněcenně :D Na to co předvádíš se nedá nic říct. Už mě fakt štveš! Příště tam rovnou přivymysli ještě jaderný pohon :D :D :D

Whomever disliked this is crazy! Wonderful model. Blew my mind with the lights and propellers! Love the video. I'm saving almost every video of the video u have. Thank you.

Congratulations on a beautiful work of art! This video referred me to my adolescence when I loved to assemble Revell kits 😀

Really good work, nice that you intergrate lightning to top the model off👍 I helped my brother to program a arduino for the blinking lights and landinggear light for his F15 modell. A tip for the LED's, install a variable resistor, in that way you can adjust the brightness when the modell is all done😀

did anyone notice when he was painting the wing at 16:28 it matched the music?

You continue to amaze with your skills....very impressive model and techniques on show. Really enjoy watching your vids and listening to your comments as you work. Thanks for sharing again.

David, the only think out of scale are your skills. I have the outmost respect for your craftsmanship, ingenuity, intelligence, patience and talent.

David, could you possibly do a WWII bomber (say a B-24?) that was hit with flak and bullets and just made it back to it's base but had to 'crash land' because only one engine was working and only one of the landing gear would deploy properly. Or something similar. You do such marvelous models and dioramas that I think it would look wonderful. Just a thought on my part. PEACE:)

Your work, David, is museum quality! Tamiya should hire you to build all their models for cover photography! Brilliant work!

This was an tremendously inspiring build. It made me want to build this kit in the near future! I hope you build more commercial planes. It's great to see someone of your skill tackle this branch of the hobby

Oh nice work! My granddad used to fly DC-3s commercially & through WWII. Impressive build with the LEDs & motors.

Me when the lights came on: "Oh sh-" Me when the props spun: 😲

Tipp: use glasfibers to guide the light precisely to the spot you want it to be. It also makes it also easier to change LEDs if they quit service against expect. In the Miniaturwunderland they also use extremely tiny LEDs (below SMT scale) who are pre-wired but I couldnt find them in the internet.

Fantastic idea the small engines and the lights! It’s very helpful that you describe what materials and colors you’re using and your explaining is very good! An amazing video again!!

This is insane. You always hear the phrase "Next level" and this is a perfect example. This is one of your best videos yet!

I made a rule that I can’t skip any adds for a month and there’s a 30 minute long add

Nádhernej model , prosim postav model b-29 super fortress mám ho skoro slepený a ten tvůj by byl super

You always have relaxing music and it makes the experience all the better. My zen moment.

Beautifully done man, that looks like it came out of a picture. I dont have the patience to do that much detail work, but wow you really pulled it off!

Nádhera

1:33 OOF i think plasmo plays roblox

You’re work is beyond excellent!! Adding lights and spinning propellers is on the awesomeness level! Keep up the awesome work and I hope you continue to make more content with this level of awesomeness!

Your work is incredible. I think this is my favorite build of yours.