Tag: re-enforcement

• Swedish NA-16 – Part Four – Pinning Your Hopes

  

  When all else fails, reach for the drill… Sorry, old habits die hard. Actually that should be reach for the forceps and slide that bucket over here. Open wide. The butt joint wing or tail surfaces are the easy way out for many short-run kit designers. They imagine you will square up the fitting surfaces…

  Dick Stein

  July 7, 2025

  1:72 scale, damage control, design, frugality, Model Airplane, Modelling materials, Self Reliance, subassembly, Utility Models

  pinning, re-enforcement

• Bristol Type 130 Bombay – Part Three – Is It Mistrust Or Distrust?

  

  The dictionary isn’t clear on the distinction. Either way, when I look at the design of some kits – particularly the butt joint of a thin horizontal stabiliser – I start to get sceptical. My experience of adhesives tells me that there are all too many instances when they don’t. I would not ask long…

  Dick Stein

  March 17, 2024

  1:72 scale, British aircraft, Czech models, design, Model Airplane, Modelling materials, Self Reliance, subassembly

  joints, re-enforcement, tails

• Mitsubishi Ann – Part Four – I Know Trouble…

  

  I know trouble when I see it. I know it even better when I wallow in it. That’s fun, but not as much fun as steering around it. As I have done with the Mitsubishi Ann. The sterling quality of the fuselage, wing, and tailplane castings were evident when I dry fitted them. But they…

  Dick Stein

  January 8, 2021

  1:72 scale, Czech models, Japanese aircraft, Model Airplane, Scale Models, subassembly, Workshop

  Mitsubishi, pins, re-enforcement, wings