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Secrets to a Better Looking Warbird — Getting Real with Weathering

Friday, May 5th, 2017

If like me, we adore airplanes I’ll gamble we have a special seductiveness in scale models, quite warbirds. There are many ARFs on a marketplace currently that make good starting points for producing a competition-worthy plane, though to flog it adult a nick in a realism category, we have to dive into weathering. Being a […]

Top Gun — Day One — Some Snapshots and a Flight Scores

Friday, May 5th, 2017

We have several friends and drifting buddies on a Top Gun flightline looking for some action. We’ll refurbish a site as we get some-more images from Paradise Field!   Today’s First Round Flight Scores by David Hart. (Above) Ray Labonte’s CARF-Models Skygate Edition Bae Hawk Frank Fels with his 1/3-scale Balsa USA Fokker D.VII Craftsmanship […]

Fly a Hammerhead (aka a “Stall Turn”)

Friday, May 5th, 2017

The case spin (sometimes also referred to as a “hammer-head”) can be damaged down into five steps. While this scheme might seem sincerely easy, it can be rather formidable to perform time and time again. Let’s begin! ILLUSTRATION BY FX MODELS CHROME CITY STUDIOS The simple case spin is achieved by pulling a indication to a […]

Tremendous Triplane: 65% Fokker Dr. 1

Thursday, May 4th, 2017

If triplanes are a singular steer during many drifting fields, 65%-scale ones are a singular treat! This superb video features Steve Carr’s initial open moody of his new Dr.1 Triplane during a Large Model Associations East Kirkby Show in Great Britain. Built from a Bill Hemple ARF package, this indication has a 15.75-foot wingspan and is powered by a […]

Stay in Control — 10 Top Radio Programming Secrets

Thursday, May 4th, 2017

The demon is in a details. After installing your servos according a manufacturer’s directions, we competence find that when a servo arm is placed on a spline, it isn’t during a ideal right angle to a servo casing. Or, after you’ve bending adult a several linkages, we learn there is too most or not adequate transport […]