Tag: tails

• 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 Peggy – Part Five – Airframe Day

  

  Well, the Peggy is closed up and winged. Airframe day passed successfully. I do not decry the Czech makers of short-run kits for their economies of production – at least I do not condemn them too much. I appreciate the fact that they bring me things I could otherwise never have. But I do miss…

  Dick Stein

  December 3, 2020

  1:72 scale, design, Japanese aircraft, Model Airplane, Model building club, subassembly

  cement, Mitsubishi, Peggy, tails, wings