Category: Building Techniques
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Real Men Don’t Sew!
Hinge Thing These days when we need to hinge a control surface such as an elevator, aileron, or rudder, we […]
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Soldering on
The last time we were gathered here I signed off by promising to show you how to make a perfect […]
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Don’t bin it, fix it! Pt.2
You’d be surprised just how much damage a model can sustain and still be repairable. Take the club member who […]
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Don’t bin it, fix it!
The trouble with today’s ARTF culture is that flyers who’ve never built a model from scratch don’t know how to […]
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Under pressure
Okay, confession time. In the decade or so that I’ve been designing and scratch-building sport-scale models, one of the key […]
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Constructing the perfect joint
YOU WILL NEED: 1. Balsa for longerons and uprights (6 x 6mm pictured). 2. Balsa for gussets (in this instance, 6mm sheet […]
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True to Life
Doesn’t time fly when you’re having fun? I couldn’t believe it was time to put pen to paper again and […]
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Question of balance
A subject that draws many questions within our hobby concerns propellers. How to balance them correctly, how to test the balance, […]
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Inextricably Linked
YOU WILL NEED: 1. A servo, complete with fixings and a plastic servo arm. 2. A control surface horn and its screw […]
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Aermacchi AM.3C Build photo’s
Cyril Carr's Semi scale sportster is designed primarily for beginners but is also a platform for those uninitiated in the […]