Vintage set of the week: Biplane
Posted by Huwbot,
This week's vintage set is 328 Biplane, released during 1967. It's one of 15 System sets produced that year. It contains 50 pieces.
It's owned by 203 Brickset members. If you want to add it to your collection you might find it for sale at BrickLink or eBay.
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The lighting on this almost makes the wings look like they are chrome gold.
It won't be very aerodynamic. But it is made of square bricks so... yeah.
Looks Swooshable
How progressive for 1967.
But to me the 2x4 wheel brick hub is the first SNOT brick, as evidenced by the propeller being a wheel with 2 plates on it.
I would buy this set.
@MCLegoboy said:
"The lighting on this almost makes the wings look like they are chrome gold."
I'd say chrome-silver. Won't matter much, since this thing is clearly flying into the sun...with impact in about 10, 9, 8, 7...
@MeisterDad said:
"I would buy this set."
I just added it to my wanted list, so... yeah.
Wow!
The Lego designer even figured out how to put the vertical stabilizer in the centre of the fuselage by using two 1x1 round bricks - nice! (1967 npu)
I want this in minifig scale!!
Reminds me of Amelia Earhart's plane. (although I believe that was a monoplane)
@Maxbricks14 said:
"It won't be very aerodynamic. But it is made of square bricks so... yeah."
Guess that makes it…square-odynamic
The lighting sure is dramatic here. It makes the set look more serious and epic than it has any right to be. Like it will crash any moment but the pilot is keeping their course to save all of humanity -levels of dramatic!
If you look closely you can see that one of the wing plates is a bit loose. Maybe that'll have disastrous consequences?
@Binnekamp said:
"The lighting sure is dramatic here. It makes the set look more serious and epic than it has any right to be. Like it will crash any moment but the pilot is keeping their course to save all of humanity -levels of dramatic!
If you look closely you can see that one of the wing plates is a bit loose. Maybe that'll have disastrous consequences?"
It's a Lego plane, not Boeing.
That looks like something I would've made when I was seven
One of my dreams as a child!
It is illegal for the children of Florida to learn that these types of vehicles exist, or were a part of history.
@Brickchap said:
"I want this in minifig scale!!
Reminds me of Amelia Earhart's plane. (although I believe that was a monoplane)"
40450 _is_, shockingly enough, in near-perfect scale with a minifig representing a 6' tall person. And that plane seated _six_ passengers (in _three_rows_) plus the pilot! Like pretty much everyone, I assumed it was scaled down until I saw photos of Earhart standing on the wheel spats or poking out of the dorsal hatch over the cockpit. I pulled up the specs on the real plane, and ran all the numbers (2-3 times, even), saw that it's within half a stud of being correctly scaled, and I'm still having a hard time wrapping my head around it nearly three years later.
Anyways, Earhart trained on a Curtiss JN-4 military biplane. The first plane she bought was a Kinner Airster biplane, and as best I can tell, her second plane was another Kinner Airster. She also owned an Avro Avian III biplane for a bit. Once she upgraded to the red Lockheed Vega 5B, I assume she stuck to monoplanes.