Let’s take a closer look at the shape of the nose of the aircraft. Let’s open the photo with the nose of the aircraft again. We see that the nose fairing has an elliptical shape. The transition of the vertical side of the fuselage to a fully elliptical shape is clearly visible. I need to […]
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Part 1 The hero of my story was born in 1947. This is Vladislav Zhdan, a well-known ship modeler in Russia. He lives and works in Moscow. Today he is a recognized master of his craft. His models of old sailing ships are in demand in Russia and abroad. Vladislav’s childhood was usual for that […]
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This is a well-known WWI aircraft that was widespread in the armies of the belligerent countries. In addition to France, Nieuport 17 was in service with Russia, Great Britain, Belgium and Italy. The aircraft was built according to a one-and-a-half-plane scheme, which was unusual for that time, with the lower wing of a reduced area. […]
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Let’s continue modeling the plane nose. Last time I made the cockpit glazing. Now we need to make the nose of the fuselage. Let’s see what we have. The picture “Right View” shows that we have only the contour of the nose and section A along the nose of the fuselage. In this case, we […]
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I am continuing to review the construction of the Mukha-class hydrofoil. The construction of the ship’s superstructure continues. Superstructure of the second tier. Now it’s the turn of making doors. There are quite a lot of doors and Filindr, as a true master of his craft, develops the technological process of making doors. As a […]
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Maxim began test assembly of his Yak-130 model. There have been no messages from Maxim for a long time, and now there is a lot of news at once. Judging by the photo, work on the model is in full swing. The frame of the model, cockpits, engines are already ready. Fuselage skin patterns on […]
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The next operation is to unfold the “planks” of the skin on a plane. By now, I have made many details. In order not to get confused by them, it is time to arrange the made parts in order on A4 sheets. The process is facilitated by the fact that for the opposite side of […]
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Let’s continue building the fuselage of our aircraft. Now we need to make the cockpit. At the beginning, we will hide the made part of the fuselage so that it does not interfere with us. To do this, copy the bow frame: command Ctrl D + Enter. The copied frame remains in place. Then we […]
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In 1927, at the Mechanical Plants “E. Plage i T. Laśkiewicz “in Lublin began the design of a new military aircraft, which was supposed to replace the outdated by that time Potez XV and Potez XXV, produced by factories under license. The work was headed by the pilot, engineer and aircraft designer Jerzy Rudlicki (March […]
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I recently remembered how my paper modeling started. At first, I thought it all started with a French barge in the summer of 2013. I mean my last coming on paper modeling, when I already had a son. But, recently, the very first issue of my magazine caught my eye and I remembered that in […]
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There is no need to prove that a good model needs beautiful and high-quality photographs in order to present the model to colleagues in all its qualities. However, as I already said, it is not always possible to take a simple photo of a model using a phone or even a camera. As a rule, […]
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Last time we stopped at the fact that we made one section of the fuselage of our aircraft and agreed that you will do the rest of the work with the fuselage yourself.Let’s check out our homework. We still have one question unresolved. After applying the SubSurf modifier to the fuselage section, its edges were […]
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