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Peter Miller

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  1. I eventually worked that out. I seem to remember the Cornard upper School playing ields and a gutter that the far end. This thread is for the funnies. I will PM you shortly.
  2. And of course that is the main cause of global Warming. Back in 1975 the world population was about 3.5 billion people. Today it is over 8 billion and an awful lot of them insist of flying off on their holidays on aircraft that burn 700 gallons per hour per engine.🤣
  3. That is simple. They are protected from every possible infection so they do not build up any sort of immune system I could tell you tales of life in a small Argentinian village up in the mountains that would curdle the blood in the veins of the average modern housewife or doctor. Never hurt me!!!
  4. Now that is brilliant.It is just that. I could never understand why they made such an effort to get it back when it was stolen!
  5. As I say. Look at other pictures in my various builds. A picture is worth a thousands words is so very true.
  6. I remember a mate on the squadron bought a new mini in 1963 for about the same price. Maybe this thread should be renamed "Sign of the TImes Tragedy!!!
  7. KC has got it right. It is my standard wing building system and has been for a good few years now. It works so well. The lower LE sheet is under the bottom spar. the cap strips butt up against the bottom spar. If you look at some of my other builds you should find sets of pictures that show this well.
  8. I am just about to order some balsa wood. I remember when a sheet of 3" wide 1/16" sheet cost 6 pence.😭
  9. Re the curved under surface of the front of the ribs. You lay the leading edge sheet down flat. put the ribs on. Add the 1/8" leading edge sheet flush with the bottom of the ribs and then raised the lower LE sheet up and glue to the LE and ribs. The cut away drawing shows that the wing has lower cap strips for the wing and also top cap strips.
  10. Just in passing: I remember back in the 50s a hard up member of our RAF club covered his combat model in strips of perforated tissue paper off a roll. Each small square had the words "Government Property" stamped on it in green ink. Anyone remember that material?
  11. Yes, well, the chap who draws the final version for the magazine does some funny things. I will say no more!!
  12. The grain should go vertically up the long dimension. If you like you can glue 1/4" wide strips across the former to add stiffness
  13. There are a lot of sayings which I always follow "KISS" = Keep it simple, stupid. Simplicate and add lightness. What isn't there can't go wrong. But people like to try different ideas and sometimes they come up with things that no one has ever thought of. A classic example. How many people shape trailing edges from a strip of balsa cut from the sheet? Many years ago I edited the gadget pages in AMI. A chap sent in the idea of shaping the T.E. and then cutting it off the sheet. Obvious isn't it!!! And yet four members of the club who had been modelling since the 50 and one who was modelling before the war had never thought of doing it that way. We had all cut the strip and then wrestled with shaping it. I wonder how many others had never thought of doing that way. That chap won the prize that month!!
  14. I certainly would not change the tailplane and elevators. I have used built up tail surfaces on some models but they are too weak in the event of a tumble. My new Oodalally broke the standard tailplane which it landed out in a weed covered field. It was very soft wood but was solid sheet.
  15. They look impressive. Should be fine.
  16. Hi Dave I am a strong believer in the KISS principle. have fun and enjoy.
  17. The trailing edge spar will be fractionally larger than 1/4 Sq due to the taper of the TE. But in fact 1/4Sq could be used. I know that because I just built the SARIK version of the parts. In fact up until then they had not included the 1/4 sq TE. I have now advised them of that fact. To be honest when I built that Sarik kit I didn't realise the discrepancy that the original instructions said that and I just used 1/4 square and never noticed any problem...This may say something about my building🤔 Actually that drawing shows that the bottom is square or at 90 degrees to the vertical sides. If you happen to have some 1/4 sheet you can strip off some slightly wider sections and shape to match the ribs as shown. Alternatively you can either add a strip of 1/16 to the top of 1/4 sq. but that is being fiddly. The final solution would be to use 1/4" square and a bit of sanding and fractional thinning of the aileron. I hope this helps.
  18. I would add that the pilots expression is very realistic!!!!
  19. Do you know, I had completely forgotten that model! Now I see it I remembers it. It goes well!!! I did a lovely Macchi Folgore for Cambria Kits but they never produced it.
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