Tag: clamping

• Short Skyvan – Part Four – Progressive!

  

  If I were still in Canada I would probably be a Progressive Conservative. As it is I am in Australia and have become a Progressive Cementer. I assemble the fuselages of my model aircraft with a great deal less dash than I used to exhibit; I am cautious and careful and rarely glue myself to…

  Dick Stein

  October 11, 2026

  1:72 scale, adhesives, Canadian aircraft, damage control, Model Airplane, subassembly, Uncategorized, workflow

  cementation, clamping, design

• Junkers Ju 87 – Part Three – Fuselage

  

  If ever the doctors start looking at radiographs of me and wondering why there are ulcers in my stomach and gaps in my brain, I am going to show them the business of fitting two fuselage halves together. I expect sympathy and understanding. Remember this is 1975, this kit. Margaret Thatcher has been elected Prime…

  Dick Stein

  November 18, 2021

  1:72 scale, German aircraft, Model Airplane, Scale Models, subassembly

  cementation, clamping, Junkers

• Armstrong Whitworth Whitley Mk V – Part Three – Subassembly Day

  

  A day at my model building club is a short one – I get there about 9:00 AM and leave at noon. But I can accomplish a lot in those hours…drink coffee, eat cake, make bad jokes, and cement the first parts of a kit together. The amount of cementation depends to some extent upon…

  Dick Stein

  June 4, 2020

  1:72 scale, British aircraft, design, Model Airplane, Modelling Supplies, Scale Models, subassembly, Uncategorized, Workshop

  alignment, clamping, gluing, Uncle Doug