Hello everyone. My old idea to build some kind of airplane has finally started its embodiment.I started a project to create a model of a twin-engine transport aircraft Airspeed AS.6 Envoy, England. I will not expand on the technical details of the aircraft. There is information about the plane on the network. So, let’s get […]
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I present to you my French longboat’s transformation from 1:48 to 1:72 scale. This action requires the redevelopment of the longboat and order of its assembling technology. Frames become in 0.8×0.8 mm strips and they lie on frame templates. It is rather difficulty describe, but easy to show: Patterns: Details: Slip: Frame and Template: The […]
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Let’s continue review of Mukha class corvette model assembling. In this part we see installation of small parts on the hull. Assembling hull supports goes parallel. Sonar, splash guard in bow, bow thruster details, thruster in the aft are installed. Then follows the assembly of the stern hydrofoils. Their assembly begins with the frame. In […]
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It’s not good when the model is done well, and the photos are frankly bad. To fix this shortcoming, I want to start a conversation on the topic of paper models photographics. How to take a good picture of a model? Do I need an expensive camera for this? Or a secret in something else? […]
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Along the way, it turned out that the scale of the model “slightly walks”. I finally understood this when it came to the wheels. Very small ones they were. I had to climb into I-net, look there for a book with a description of the aircraft and look for wheel diameters in it. Indeed, […]
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Then the time came to “lathe” the wheels. Theoretically, such things, for the “purity of the genre”, should be strictly dosed. I mean turned parts from a blank glued from many layers of cardboard. This is a forced technological measure, like a wire and a transparent film for glazing cabs. I think that wheels for […]
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Hello to all modelers. This is my French longboat of XVIII cen. in scale 1:72.This model includes only a hull without rigs and sails. The hull of the longboat is made from paper 0.4 mm thick. Assembling the model is not very difficult and could be completed in two or three evenings.Assembling instructions you can […]
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Installation of the bottom parts on the model frame continues. Small parts prepared for painting the ends. There are redans on the bottom. The process of assembling the bottom completed. To be continued…
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