Tag: nose weight

• Another Bronco – Part two – Dry Fit For The Win

  

  You can get a pretty good idea early on with a scale model kit – whether it is going to be kind to you or slash your face. The OV-10 is one of the former. Here is the thing after one afternoon in the library cutting and painting. The wing has been cemented together, as…

  Dick Stein

  July 5, 2023

  1:72 scale, American aircraft, Civil aircraft, design, Light plane, Model Airplane, subassembly, Uncategorized

  dry fit, nose weight, precision

• Consolidated Liberator B.VI – Part Four – Weigh Day

  

  Well, I learned my lesson early. I built an Airfix model of a Vickers Wellington back in the 1960’s and no-one told me about nose weights. The plane turned out to be a tail-sitter… I was cautious with the new Airfix Liberator I am building in case the plastic model company was going to fool…

  Dick Stein

  July 29, 2019

  1:72 scale, British aircraft, Model Airplane, research, Scale Models, Uncategorized, Workshop

  Consolidated Liberator, nose weight, tricycle gear