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How to: Make Bubble Windows

Friday, April 18th, 2014

Many full-scale airplanes and helicopters underline burble windows to concede a organisation larger visibility. Replicating these windows can be wily for scale modelers, as it’s untimely to make a vacuum-forming block for any singly made window frame. In full-scale aircraft manufacturing, these burble windows are roughly always free-blown from piece cosmetic clamped in a frame. […]

Road to Top Gun — P.J. Ash and his Rising Sun Japanese Zero

Friday, April 18th, 2014

PJ has only finished his Top Gun foe craft that is a Meister Scale prolonged wing Zero. The wingspan is 118 inches and a indication is powered with a Quadra 100 swinginga Xoar 26×10 prop. It has Sierra retracts, and is guided by JR 12x.  For a considerable somewhat weathered South Pacific finish, PJ used Tamiya […]

Unusual RC: Swiss Army Knife Takes Flight

Thursday, April 17th, 2014

The skill of RC craft modelers never ends, and this sharp-flying aircraft is definitely one of a kind. Check it out! Article source: http://www.modelairplanenews.com/blog/2014/04/17/unusual-rc-swiss-army-knife-takes-flight/

Throw Back Thursday! — Old MAN Photo Files

Thursday, April 17th, 2014

We dusted off some good aged snap shots by a dear crony George Leu. George trafficked all over a nation and contributed to several articles in MAN along with his time as a Scale columnist. All these photos are from a folder noted 1987 – 88 From a Scale Masters hold in California. Two years […]

Road to Top Gun — Mike Barbee’s T-34-B Mentor

Thursday, April 17th, 2014

Mike Barbee will again be competing with his absolutely immense T-34B Mentor in a Expert class. The craft is 36% scale and has a wingspan of 138 inches and is 110 inches long. Mike built it from a Bob Patton pattern and a fuselage is fiberglass done from Bob’s molds. The wings are froth sheeted and finished with 1.5 oz. […]