Detailing Scale Model Aircraft

Detailing Scale Model Aircraft, Modelarstwo
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This is the most comprehensive book on detailing model aircraft ever written. It
documents with step-by-step detail and hundreds of closeup photographs how to turn an
average model into a detailed masterpiece. Dozens of simple techniques will teach you
how to add detail to cockpits; scratchbuild interiors, seats, and seat frames; and add
interior details such as piping, switches, and dials.
You'll learn how to modify and improve kit-supplied parts; detail engines and intake and
exhaust ports; how to add detail to wheel wells and landing gear; how to remove, modify,
and reattach control surfaces, hatches, and access panels; and add rigging and control
cables to biplanes. An entire chapter is devoted to tips and techniques on everything from
seam removal to masking clear parts and applying and weathering decals. Whether your
modeling tastes are propeller-driven aircraft from the First or Second World War or the
sleek jet fighters of today, this book is for you!
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Mike Ashey lives in Tallahassee,
Florida, with his wife, Kelly, and their
two sons, Thomas and Gregory. Mike
is a member of IPMS, and he has been
building models since the early sixties.
His interests are primarily aircraft and
ships, although he does indulge In a
tank every now and then. He has an
undergraduate degree in Ocean
Engineering, and aside from building
models he enjoys writing, SCUBA
diving, flying, staying in shape, and
being a father to two future model
builders. He spent four years in the
U.S. Marines and was honorably
discharged as a Sergeant. He worked
for the Department of the Navy as a
senior engineer and project manager,
and as a technical advisor for the
Navy's elite SEAL combat force.
Presently Mike is heavily involved in
environmental protection and is a
Bureau Chief for Florida's Department
of Environmental Protection.
DETAILING
SCALE
MODEL
AIRCRAFT
by Mike Ashey
CONTENTS
FOREWORD
6
1. MODELING TIPS & TECHNIQUES
7
2. COCKPITS
22
3. ENGINES
41
THE FLIGHT LINE
48
4. LANDING GEAR
67
5. GUNS, FLYING WIRES, CONTROL
CABLES & ANTENNA WIRES
77
6. REMOVING & REATTACHING
KIT PARTS
87
MANUFACTURERS AND SUPPLIERS
103
INDEX..
..104
FOREWORD
I have often wondered what makes this hobby so special to me. I guess that, above all
other reasons, it helps me to connect with my childhood and the many things that were so
special about being a kid. It all started when my Dad took me along for a ride one warm
summer day in 1964 and we visited a place called Vince's Hobby store in Clifton, New
Jersey. I will never forget the impression it left on me. The store was a wonderland of
electric trains, gas-powered airplanes that hung from the ceiling and were almost as big as I
was, and walls lined with plastic models of every type. On that special day we bought a
ship model, which we built and floated in the tiny pool my Dad had set up for my brothers
and me. I cannot remember how many times I broke and repaired that model, but it kept
me occupied and it made me hunger for more models.
Some time after my first model, I discovered that the local hardware and repair store,
which was within biking distance, carried model airplanes. Within a year or two the ceiling
of my room was cluttered with Aurora, Revell, Hawk, and Monogram kits of every type. I
spent every dime of my paper route money on models and long hours in the basement
building them. I can vividly remember those warm summer days as I rode my bike to the
store while I fantasized about what it must be like to actually fly the airplane I had picked
out the previous week to buy. My dreams were always filled with fighter pilot Mike Ashey's
courageous exploits.
As I look back on those years, I have come to understand that building all those models
served many purposes, besides keeping me out of trouble. Building models gave me an
outlet to express my fledgling creativity, which has developed to the point that now I can
look at a plain, basic, stripped-down model and picture it as a finely-detailed model simply
by changing the picture of it in my head. It honed my skills at following instructions to
assemble things, which translated to following machinery diagrams and blueprints in my
later years. It allowed me to become adept at discerning spatial relationships of
equipment, buildings, and site plans, which comes in handy as a practicing field engineer.
It developed my commonsense problem-solving skills and instilled in me a sense of
symmetry and organization. All of these attributes that I now have and which serve me
well in life I can attribute in some measure to quite a few ninety-eight-cent models and five-
cent tubes of Tester's glue.
Although the model industry is better now than it has ever been before, something has
been lost. Amongst all the fancy high-tech kits, resin accessories, and photoetched parts
we have lost the true sense and pleasure of the hobby. Many models are expensive almost
to the point of being absurd, and many after-market products cost as much or more than
the kits themselves. With all the hype about the recessed panel lines of this model or the
highly detailed wheel wells of that model we have forgotten about the kid on the bike who
yearns to expand his or her creativity and let his or her imagination run wild. We are in the
process of losing an entire generation of modelers because the majority of the industry is
focusing on adults instead of seeking a balance. The future generation of our hobby is
growing up on electronic games, and most of them will never experience all the positive
attributes that this hobby has instilled in us adults. As a result, they may never benefit
from all the by-products that model building can bestow upon a young mind and propel a
young man or woman to success. If we do not address this problem, at some point in the
near future a vacuum will be created in the industry because their customer base is going
to suddenly shrink and our hobby will suffer.
I cannot say enough good things about those manufacturers who strive to seek a
balance between all age groups and offer low-cost models to our kids. I wrote this book in
an effort to reintroduce to the modeling community the art of creativity, imagination, and
ideas and to remind all of us that there is life beyond the high-priced, high-tech kit and that
to invest in the kid on the bicycle is the best investment we can make.
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