WOW! A Gotha Bomber I've Never Seen

[scottw]

This one is new to me, guys!

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Rare-Vintage-19 ... 1c2b651db2

[scottw]

I'll try to add the photos:

[scottw]

Another:

[grwebster]

any maker known?

[scottw]

Listing hinted at MPC, but who knows?

[Tone]

Gotha had pusher props and a single fin. That toy is a Vickers Vimy. Check out this one I posted in early 2011:

viewtopic.php?f=14&t=916

[scottw]

Yes, I think you're right. And believe me, I certainly was aware that if it WAS trying to pretend to be a Gotha, it was nowhere near accurate. But it does certainly resemble a Vimy more than a Gotha. I guess the blue color threw me.

Scott

[grwebster]

A great toy just the same. I always wonder what the motivation was for a toy designer to work with such an obscure subject like that. I could more easily understand the Fokker triplane perhaps {Snoopy and all}, but just what kid in the 50s 60s would be interested in that one?
There have other airplane toy subjects of very obscure aircraft over the years that raised the same question with me.
Whatever the reason, I am glad they did it.

[Tomtom]

Maybe not as obscure a choice in subject as thought. Plastic kit wise there was a Vimy kit by Frog and Aurora did a Gotha in a red burgundy gloss color no less. Wild even for Aurora.

[Tone]

Even the 1960s history book authors remembered the Vimy as the first nonstop Atlantic crossing in 1919 so it had remained a fairly famous plane. I wish I had had one back then.