Hints and Tips...

[badlanding]

Is it? Sorry, didn't see that bit. Well they do say great minds think alike! Or as in this case, ordinary ones sometimes reach the same solutions as the great lol!

[Roxter]

Just wanted to share a great article on HyperScale called "Woodgrain Painting Technique".

[badlanding]

Happening on the old Red Star kit of the Anatra Anasal, I wanted some info on exactly who used it (and the Anade) and when, and some plans, but lack the wonderful, rare (and expensive!) books available to some of you. Was making only modest progress on the net, till I had (by my standards!) a bright idea thought I'd share with you.

Went into Wings Pallete (other sites would do, you'll get the idea in a mo..), and looked up the profiles. Then I clicked on the link to the website of one from a Russian site. Hey presto, now I had the name in Russian script. Copy and paste THAT into Google... and the world opened up! LOADS of new info, as seems unsurprisingly they know rather more, and have more interest in, Russian WW1 planes than most of us do. Googled 'images', and yep - many more pics. And amazingly, the 'translate' option on the google page works splendidly, from Russian anyway.

If anybody is interested I'll post a fascinating article on the Anasal, and the various countries that ended up owning them.

[albatros1234]

i'm interested badlanding i have a emhar kit thata barly started, my only reference is an old windsock worldwide i downloaded but it only has a few photos. my email is [email protected]

[badlanding]

Originally Posted by albatros1234

i'm interested badlanding i have a emhar kit thata barly started, my only reference is an old windsock worldwide i downloaded but it only has a few photos. my email is [email protected]

came across another thread asking about it, so just posted it here..

Austro Hungarian Flars Gruppe 1V

Yep, I'm toying with what to do with an Anasal kit too! It seems they more or less never actively flew with the Russians (maybe the odd exception), most never left the factory before the Austrians arrived. If you have any details of Anasols being used on active service in WW1, (as against training with the Austrians, or in the various conflicts that followed 'peace'...), and any pics of same be very interested! I may convert mine to an Anade, but good pics of the front end of that are hard to come by, and they varied quite a bit too!

[modelhound]

OK boys and girls, here is a method for finding the true length of landing gear legs from a set of three view plans.




Here is a very simplified set of plans showing the front and side views of our aeroplane, fuselage and landing gear only shown.




Here is the fun part. In the front view, draw a vertical line A-C that goes through the point where the landing gear strut meets the axle. Using a compass, draw an arc B-C with A as the center with the arc going through the point where the landing gear meets the fuselage and extending to the A-C line. Draw a horizontal line H-J that goes through the point where the arc crosses the vertical line. Extend this line H-J over to the side view. If the two views do not line up, measure the distance on the A-C line from A to where the arc crosses the A-C line. Transfer this distance to the side view vertically from the A point. On the side view draw two vertical lines D-E and F-G each line crossing the point where the landing gear attaches to the fuselage.




The two green lines show the true length of the landing gear struts. From A to the intersection of the H-J and the D-E line and from A to the intersection of the H-J and the F-G line.

If the front and back struts of the landing gear do not attach to the the fuselage at the same point when looking at the front view, do this little exercise for both the front and rear landing struts separately. Twice the fun, eh?

There you have it. Simple and clear as mud pie.

With a little imagination you can use this same methiod for figuring the true length of booms for pusher aeroplanes and oddly canted interplane struts on the weird Austro-Hungarian planes.

A straight edge, a compass and a nimble mind is all you need for this amazing parlor trick.

Mike the modelbuilder in averagensus.

[AROTH]

I knew I should have paid more attention in geometry and trigonometry classes back in high school. Are these the same formulas or do they look funny because I haven't seen them in 40 years?

[modelhound]

They are the same basic geometry formulas (no trig here), but they look funny because you've never seen them applied to something that interests you, ie. aeroplanes.

mIKE the egghead.

[stevedrew]

I though that perhaps the modellers of 1/48 or 1/72 might find a use for this tip:

I picked up some earplugs from work today. You know the type, you roll them in your fingers as you compress them, and they become about 3mm in diameter, then you shove them in your ears and keep a finger poked against it as it expands to its original shape.

I thought these might be ideal for masking a detailed cockpit when it comes down to painting the fuselage. They are ultra-compressible, so any cockpit coaming size would be easily covered, they are cheap (very cheap for me), and useful for keeping your hearing intact if you also use them when you use your power tools. Just squeeze them up, drop them into your cockpit, they expand, but not over the coaming lip.

Just a thought. I haven't tried it yet, but I've seen others using other types of foam for this purpose.

[Parabellum]

I came across this thread while searching for rigging tips, as stretched sprue is pretty much my only technique right now. I've seen mention of Maxima Chameleon 2 lb.-test line. Here's the quizzical thing, it's easy enough to do an Internet search for Maxima Chameleon, but try as I might I can't find a source for the 2 lb. line. Anyone have any reasonably priced sources he can pass along? Thanks.