Tag: struts
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Bristol F.2B – Part Two – Struttin’ Wif’ Some Styrene
And I had much rather it had been wif’ some barbecue… The point at which you regret your choices in life occurs to all of us, but it comes repeatedly to the scale modeller who builds biplanes. The original designers of the aircraft were forced to use multiple wings and sticks and wire between them…
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Fairchild Argus – Part Four – Struttin’
An’ not wid no barbeque… I hope some readers are old enough to get that one. And I hope it gets past the social media censors. In any case, In any case the struts and braces on this Argus have come out splendidly. Not for lack of work, I might add – the wing braces…
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AVIA B.534 – Part Two – When One Wing Is Not Enough
Not enough to cause you enough unease… Try two or more. Add the struts and see if your eyes are starting to swim. With a bit of luck there will be eight or more and your happiness will recede so far that you’ll never see it. I was worried when I saw that the AVIA…
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Handley Page Heracles – Part Two – Wings Over Wetaskwin
This kit build has nothing to do with Wetaskwin, but if you have been waiting for 60 years to use that line, you just go for it. The sprue trees that made up this kit looked like a picket fence – or a game of pick-up-sticks; there were that many struts. The box art was…
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Fairey Swordfish Mk I – Part Three – Wings Over The Workbench
I walk in awe of the people who build scale model biplanes and then rig them. They have condemned themselves to the sort of stage act that used to involve Chinese jugglers, bamboo poles, and spinning bowls…and then added the sort of things that would make a spider burst into tears. I don’t know what…
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The Arrogant Strut
Those who saw Mussolini were impressed with the way he strutted. Likewise with Al Jolson and Kaiser Wilhelm II. However, none of them were as arrogant as the Airfix company when it comes to strutting…as witnessed by their production of a 1:72 Bristol F.2B. They have produced a kit that is nearly impossible to assemble.…
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De Havilland DH2 – Part Three – Wing Day
Well there is no point in putting it off and just sitting in the club rooms drinking coffee. Glue the bastard together or go home. 12 struts – reasonably formed for all that. 4 cabanes and 8 inter-plane ones. Socket dimples in fuselage and wings, but everything’s separate. The only saving grace is that all…
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Fiat CR.32 – Part Three – Subassemblies
The call-out and the box art for this Italian/Chinese fighter show sub-assemblies bolted onto the basic structure. The pictures provide a valuable clue that the instructions fail to show; you need to pre-paint the assemblies before you attach them – or you’ll never get clean demarcations. So, emboldened by the Slovakian jigs, I tried a…
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Westland Wallace – Part Four – Struttin’ Wid Some Barbecue
Or ” Jigging On The Spot “. The prospect of attaching eight interplane struts and four cabanes on the Westland Wallace called forth the engineer in me. Also the foam board fanatic. The basic requirement was that the struts sit straight but canted forward from the lower to the upper wing and that they allow…
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Strutting Around The Workshop
With my clothes on, I hasten to add… There comes a time in any modeller’s life when they are faced with the difficult decision; do I build a biplane with cabanes and inter-plane struts or do I run amok with a dagger in the mall? I can’t tell you how many times I have faced…
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