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. [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ] |