Tag: ejector pins

• Academy SPAD XIII – Part Two – Ick…

  

  Perhaps I am getting too fussy – or watching too many YouTube speakers complaining about sink holes and ejector pin marks. I am starting to see them more and more. Of course some kits make them more obvious than others – the Academy SPAD XIII being one of them. Note the pink spots of sprue-goo…

  Dick Stein

  October 30, 2023

  1:72 scale, design, French aircraft, Italian aircraft, Model Airplane, Scale Models, subassembly

  ejector pins, sink marks, SPAD

• Hawker Demon – Part Two – That Sinking Feeling

  

  Bovril would have prevented this… Actually the problem is ejector post marks in the wings of the Demon. They are as marked as any I’ve ever seen, but fortunately Airfix configured the mould to place them on the underside of the wings and tailplane. Equally fortunatly I have an unused tube of Mr. Hobby white…

  Dick Stein

  November 22, 2021

  1:72 scale, British aircraft, design, Model Airplane, Modelling materials, Scale Models, subassembly

  Airfix, ejector pins, putty, sink marks

• Boeing Kaydet – Part Two – A Hole Lotta Filling Goin’ On

  

  I mentioned the sink holes and ejector post depressions last column. I didn’t realise then how many of them there were going to be. The ones in the tyres were particularly galling. No-one else has this problem. Well, after some Perfect Plastic Putty, neither did I. To their credit, Revell gave me two seats that…

  Dick Stein

  April 5, 2021

  1:72 scale, American aircraft, Model Airplane, Scale Models, subassembly, Utility Models

  Boeing, ejector pins, Revell, sinkholes, trainer