Tag: propellers

• Fairey Battle Mk I – Part Four – Broken On The Wheel

  

  In Prague they have a tradition of throwing difficult people out of third-story windows. Look it up. I can certainly agree with this when it comes to scale model designers who decide to make a resin hub and separate injected plastic blades for a propeller. I should be happy to set punji stakes or hungry…

  Dick Stein

  July 27, 2024

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

  propellers, Resin

• Vultee Vanguard – Part Three – Hate, Loathe, And Despise

  

  If I told you I hate, loathe, and despise kits that have separate blades and hubs for their propellers you might get the wrong idea. Many 1/72 planes have this feature and the two, three, or four-bladed props sandwich in between a hub and a spinner and end up looking fine. I reserve my negative…

  Dick Stein

  May 1, 2023

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

  Czech kits, propellers, short-run technology

• Farman NC 223.3 – Part Six – Praise Courageous Me

  

  Thank you, thank you. I fully deserve your applause – I have made propellers and engines the HARD way. Not that I had any choice in the matter. The parts were there and the instructions were uncompromising – ” Do as we say or die “. Or, in the case of the engine mounting struts:…

  Dick Stein

  December 8, 2022

  1:72 scale, airliner, Civil aircraft, Czech models, design, French aircraft, Model Airplane, Scale Models, subassembly

  Instructions, Prague, propellers

• Mitsubishi Peggy – Part Four – A Detour

  

  I have an ongoing problem with model kit building – one that is exacerbated by the fact that I build my kits in three locations. This involves hauling kit boxes and part-made structures around with me. The problem is that parts can go missing. I have tried to prevent this by adhering to the practice…

  Dick Stein

  December 2, 2020

  1:72 scale, Japanese aircraft, Model Airplane, Modelling materials, Scale Models, subassembly, Uncategorized, Workshop

  castings, Mitsubishi, Peggy, propellers

• 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…

  Dick Stein

  October 13, 2020

  1:72 scale, American aircraft, Miniature Philosophy, Model Airplane, Scale Models, subassembly, Uncategorized

  propellers, small models, wheels

• I Now Know…

  

  I now know my least favourite scale modelling task: making up propellers from separate blades and hubs. I have just completed the gluing on two propellers for the Lockheed Electra Junior and am waiting for them to set. The maker decided to do the hubs in resin and the blades in styrene – so I…

  Dick Stein

  June 22, 2020

  1:72 scale, airliner, Canadian aircraft, Czech models, design, Miniature Philosophy, Model Airplane, Resin, Scale Models, subassembly, Uncategorized

  precision jigs, propellers, resin modelling

• Bristol Blenheim Mk I – Part Three – Goodbad Badgood Ideas

  

  You know what a goodbad idea is? it’s a brilliant thought that you have had, carried out, and been sorry for. The opposite is a badgood idea…You’ve done something dodgy that has turned out well. The ratio of the two in some fields is 4:1…in politics 40:1. The best thing about the goodbad is that…

  Dick Stein

  August 23, 2018

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

  aircrew, Bristol Blenheim, landing gear, propellers