Tag: weights

• Cessna Dragonfly – Part Two – Weighty Nose

  

  You only have to forget once to weight the nose of a three-wheeled plane to impress it on your memory forever. And there is no effective way to excuse it when you are faced with the fact – other than accepting your fate, putting the wheels up, and the model on a flying stand. I…

  Dick Stein

  December 15, 2022

  1:72 scale, American aircraft, camouflage, Colour Schemes, Masking, Modelling materials, Painting, Scale Models, subassembly

  eraser, Masking, weights

• Bell P-39 – Part Three – Weight A Minute

  

  Or forever sit on your tail. I applaud the tricycle landing gear for aircraft – in the case of civilian airliners it allows a steady takeoff and landing – I would not want to spill my champagne. On military planes it probably allows the pilot a lot better view of the field or carrier deck…

  Dick Stein

  August 11, 2019

  1:72 scale, American aircraft, Chinese models, Model Airplane, Scale Models, Uncategorized, Workshop

  Bell Airacobra, tricycle landing gear, weights