Building Techniques

Cyril Carr's Semi scale sportster is designed primarily for beginners but is also a platform for those uninitiated in the ways of Depron to experiment with the techniques and adhesives required and we've got the build photo's. So take a look below and allow them to aid your build! Happy building!

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My home-brew winter project has reached the stage where the woodwork is essentially complete, bar some final gluing up, and it’s time to cover the model. Since the aeroplane is a sports design I’ve decided to use an eye catching scheme in a bright iron-on film. Now, before applying any covering I always perform a…

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My first rubber powered autogyro inspired by S.R.Crow's record-breaking design from the 1930s. This article was first published in 2005. I can trace my interest in autogyros back more than 50 years, to the copy of F J Camm’s Model Aircraft Handbook which, as a youngster keen on making small rubber-powered models, I’d been given…

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Visit any flying site and you’ll notice that, whether i.c. or electric powered, the majority of models being flown are single-engine. That’s not to say that twins aren’t seen, but for many the journey into multi-engine installations is a trip into the unknown and, therefore, often avoided like the plague! One reason for this is…

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Whatever you fly these days, you'll be needing plenty of these! It doesn't matter what we fly, whether own-designs, kits or ARTF – if we fly R/C then we have one thing in common –  servos – be they high-power digitals or '4 for £10' micros. All servos have one thing in common, usually the…

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Well, the YT International Bf 109 that I reviewed in RCM&E is clocking up the air miles, and it’s all jolly good fun, but the old girl’s simply got no soul. It’s almost like she fell out of a cornflake packet, all clean and fresh, which is a crying shame. What’s more, she’s desperately in…

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The fruits of my labours, not perfect I'll readily confess but far better than I had expected Airbrushes have always been at the periphery of my aeromodelling vision. As a kid I grew up on a staple diet of Airfix kits so should really have had an airbrush a long time ago. I think I've…

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The Mini Tyro is just one of the choices. Welcome to Mass Build 2014 – the annual group building project here at Modelflying.co.uk. The Mass Build idea started in 2011 with a single model theme, 2012 used vintage designs as subject matter and 2013 has been the year of the Tucano. Forum users have decided…

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There can be no denying that Expanded Poly Propylene (EPP) has completely transformed the slope soaring scene since it was introduced to the hobby by American Pat Bowman about twelve years ago. Gone now are the days when a week of repair work would follow a slight launch mishap, mid-air bump or heavy landing. The…

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Now for something a little different. The story goes like this….. ….when sorting through his late father's model flying items last year, Andrew Boddington unearthed a large box containing some 40 Foam Fing boards. These lightweight boards were produced for a 1980s-era Boddo model for RCM&E, the 40 here representing unsold stock. Sometimes called art…

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