Tag: struts

• Grumman Goblin I – Part Five – The March To The Gallows

  

  You can only put off unpleasant things for so long – eventually you have to face up to them and either conquer or be conquered. In my case the dread arose because of the cabane and interplane struts of this aircraft. True to their past form, the short-run moulders had made hardly any provision for…

  Dick Stein

  October 2, 2021

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

  biplanes, cementation, jigs., struts

• Supermarine Stranraer – Part Four – You Can Glue…

  

  With your fingers crossed. This is the normal mode of operation when cabane and inter-plane struts are concerned. With Czech kits the legs are also intertwined and you run the risk of falling sideways off the stool in the workshop. Matchbox made the process a little less fraught by sectioning the upper wing in three…

  Dick Stein

  September 15, 2021

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

  biplanes, cementation, Matchbox, struts

• Avro Tutor – Part One – A Venture Into The Unknown

  

  I am not a novice in the business of a Czech kit. I know that there are beauties and beasts amongst them – I cut my teeth on one of the latter and am always grateful now when I meet with the former. This AZ model was ordered in the same batch that saw the…

  Dick Stein

  November 13, 2020

  1:72 scale, British aircraft, Colour Schemes, Czech models, Model Airplane, Scale Models, Uncategorized

  biplane, Czech models, struts