Tag: tricycle gear

• Consolidated Catalina – Part Four – Tail Sitter

  

  I take particular care with my scale models to ensure that the aircraft sit on their wheels properly. The tail-sitters like the Lancaster and Whitley, the B-17’s and B-18’s are no problem. Something can nearly always be done to beef up even the scaliest of landing gear to take the weight of plastic.  The something…

  Dick Stein

  June 20, 2020

  1:72 scale, design, Israeli aircraft, Model Airplane, Modelling materials, Scale Models, Uncategorized

  styrene legs, tail sitting, tricycle gear, weighting

• Consolidated Liberator B.VI – Part Four – Weigh Day

  

  Well, I learned my lesson early. I built an Airfix model of a Vickers Wellington back in the 1960’s and no-one told me about nose weights. The plane turned out to be a tail-sitter… I was cautious with the new Airfix Liberator I am building in case the plastic model company was going to fool…

  Dick Stein

  July 29, 2019

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

  Consolidated Liberator, nose weight, tricycle gear