Category: subassembly
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Heinkel HE 111 – Part Three – The Aerodynamic Engine
I do not know enough about the differences between British and German aero engines to be able to debate their good and bad points. Suffice it to say I think the British practice of mounting the Merlin engine upright seems to be a darn sight more sensible than the inverted Daimler Benz of the German…
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Heinkel HE 111 – Part Two – Nothing Looks Like An Airplane…
You can get into a rut in model airplane building. I do planes that are mostly British or American types. Sometimes a Soviet job, or the rare Japanese one. In all these cases they have distinctive national characteristics quite apart from paint jobs or insignia. There are styles of fuselages, wings, and engines. Some are…
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Fokker F-27 Friendship – Part Three – The Prime Example
You may be a little surprised to see me priming the F-27 fuselage separately from the wings. The reason is that the wings will not be cemented on until the very last moment – they are a different colour than the fuselage and their absence will make the fuselage painting so much easier. I’ll be…
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Fokker F-27 Friendship – Part Two – Paying Customers
I admire Italeri greatly for including the interiors on their airliners – after all, these are planes designed to carry people for money, and just moulding up a bare interior is a slack way of doing it. I am prepared to put up with the absence of overhead luggage lockers as these can be made…
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Boeing KB29A – Part Seven – Multiple Models
No, this isn’t about those kits that promise you two, three or more finished models from the kit. I admire them but will not pay the price they cost. Plus I fear getting bored with the process when finishing the third variant out of a pack of eight. I write of making multiple models in…
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Boeing KB29A – Part Six – A Bigger Jig
The value of the Little Workshop adjustable jig is proving itself daily. It comes in handy for all builds to steady aircraft in either normal or inverted mode and to allow me to rest planes on the trailing edge of the wings to apply propellers. If I turn the fuselages sideways I can do side…
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Boeing KB29A – Part Five – The Sausage
The sausage is just about to close up. The day has been spent in fettling the compartments into the fuselage and securing them with cement and PVA. The former is to get the initial location and the latter to make sure that this is maintained when the second half goes on. My aim is not…
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Boeing KB29A – Part Four – Interesting Times
And we’re livin’ in them alright. I hope we keep on livin’ The KB29A was my Mens Shed model club project and I vowed to only do it when I was at the clubrooms. The bastard Wuhan Plague put a stop to that. But I decided to keep my vow…virtually – I would model in…
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Boeing KB29A – Part Three – The Guts
The Academy kit for this KB-29A has just the right mixture of detail and space for a good 1:72 build. Any less would be sketchy and any more superfluous. The cockpit, fighting compartment, and tail gunner’s position have been mostly completed in one modelling week – spread out over two club mornings. I’ve decided to…
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Boeing KB-29A – Part Two – The Decision Taken…
The agonising decision of which version of the ’29 to build, I started to gather decals and to paint parts on the sprue trees. Of course I didn’t take the easy option. I mean, this is me, after all. The idiot without a village. I chose to do the KB-29A version with the extra parts…
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