Where did you find these planes?
No, I didn't find them, I built them
And the other thing is "No I'm not a pilot.. I like planes."
My name's Ian Barron. I lived in Bowmanville, Ontario, Canada.
I'm retired.
I used to be a millwright.
worked in a power station maintaining all the mechanical equipment, welding, machining,
fabricating and what not.
I said now I get to play full-time.
*Bell ringing*
Ya, I've building stuff all my life. I picked up a lot of experience working with my dad.
He taught me how to weld and stuff like that they built several dune buggy's
when I was in my teens and then I progressed to model A Ford's.
So I've built five Model A's for the road, three for the lawn around here and actually
one for the bedroom with working headlights. I bet you didn't know the
Model A Ford bumper is queen-sized
But the Coolest Thing I Ever Made are my full-size replicas.
Yeah welcome to Model A Acres Bed-and-Breakfast, home of the historical replica walking tours.
This is Snoopy's plane. 1916 Sopwith Camel/
So that was my first attempt at making an aeroplane.
And this one my second creation 1918 FokkerDR, known as the Red Baron's plane.
So this is what I'm working on right now it's de Havilland Mosquito/
Fastest plane of world war two it's the fighter bomber version.
If you look you can see the instrument panel and the joystick and everything else.
I'm kind of busy all the time it I guess so you've got to have a reason
to get up in the morning and you know do something.
There's a lot of things I want to do and so little time to do it,
This is a typical construction of how I build my airplanes.
It's all made out of recycled material, the galvanized
chain-link fence posts for landing gear. This is a four browning machine gun so I
just made them out of pipe and the four twenty millimeter cannons are down there,
and they were actually made from recycled jack posts.
So it's tradition that Ford wheels live on in all my planes and I cover
everything with these sheet metal corrugated walls from above ground swimming pools,
so it works out pretty good I can get a lot of mileage out of above ground swimming pools.
If you stick to using recycled stuff you can keep the cost down
So in 12 years I've recycled 40 pools
Usually with the plane, I buy a plastic model
maybe 1:32 scale or something like that.
I measure each piece
and then I multiply by whatever scale it is and that blows it up full-size.
I can't pick the coolest thing because I think they're all cool.
These are three of the most famous planes of world war two.
We have the German plane the ME-109 G Messerschmitt.
I have it painted up in Adolf Galland colors.
I have a mannequin of Adolf Galland in the plane smoking his traditional cigar.
In the middle Spitfire Mark 9 1944.
Two 20 millimeter cannons. Normally these cannons should be out this long.
These were the legs off my mother's coffee table, they rotted away.
Now we got the legs off the footstool so we're down to the shorter version.
So everything kind of gets recycled.
I like building because it's a challenge to build something like that
and it keeps your mind fresh.
And on the end the Hawker Hurricane, 1942.
I don't know anybody else that does this.
I haven't met anybody who builds full-size warbirds out of recycled material from scratch.
I would love to meet somebody else that does this.
If you look at the tank it's actually an 89 Chevy Silverado.
I got rid of 900 pounds of truck and then I built the full-size Sherman Firefly around it.
Would you like to see what's on the inside?
My father was tank mechanic in the Canadian Army so I did the tank as tribute to my dad.
I mean my dad's been gone quite a few years now and I miss him.
My plans for the future? Actually I get asked that and I say it's confidential
restricted information and I can't say but something special is coming. (laughs)
My full-size replicas are the Coolest Things I've Ever Made.
It's a take?
Hey guys, my name is Guy, I'm the creator of the show, so yeah obviously we're not
shooting right now with the pandemic going on so that was shot last spring
but we're just getting around to editing it now because I'm very behind on that.
In the last couple of weeks we actually got one of these in the mail.
A YouTube silver award for passing a hundred thousand subscribers so thanks
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They'll be a lot more episodes coming out soon.