Tag: geometry

• Northrop Black Widow – Part Three – Swings And Roundabouts

  

  Every airplane design has compromises and so does every kit. Some are adequately addressed and some are not – what you gain on the swings, you lose on the roundabouts. In the case of the P-61, the twin tail booms made of two pieces each ( double the seams ) mean two chances to get…

  Dick Stein

  February 8, 2023

  1:72 scale, American aircraft, design, Model Airplane, Scale Models, subassembly, Uncategorized, Workshop

  complexity, design, geometry, setting-up

• Bristol Bulldog – Part Three – Plane, True, And Plumb

  

  Say what you will about super-detail kits and expensive models – you just cannot beat a kit that will go together cleanly with no strain on the components. Oh, we’ve all had kits where we’ve coped. Where we’ve managed to make one warp counteract another and end up with something that looks like the box…

  Dick Stein

  September 22, 2021

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

  Airfix, fit, fuselage, geometry

• Curtiss Helldiver – Part Four – Euclid Was Never A Scale Modeller

  

  Because he could never get the geometry right… I look fondly on equilateral triangles and acute angles – many of my friends can best be described as angular and obtuse – and I like to see the geometry of the model airplane come out well. I wish this was the case with every short-run kit.…

  Dick Stein

  June 11, 2021

  1:72 scale, American aircraft, Czech models, design, Model Airplane, Scale Models, subassembly

  Curtiss, geometry, Helldiver, wings