[WWI] Building the old kits

[Joel Christy]

Hi  All,
   
  I just don't get it. Why not build the wings as one unit and then attach it to the fuselage. Once it is all aligned you attach the cabane struts. Nothing could be dimpler. This only works if the lower wing is in one piece, about 90% of the time. IMHO.
   
  Cheers,
   
  Joel

Michael Kendix <mkendix at hotmail.com> wrote:
  Mark:

I agree. Especially with biplanes, even the best Eduard kits, there is 
always tricky bits. For a start, you have to get the top wing on, which is 
always non-trivial. All the struttage and such make alignment that much 
moire challenging.

Michael


>From: "Mark Shannon" 
>Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2006 16:58:51 -0500
>
>That's my view. Instead of looking at the well engineered and detailed
>kits as "Shake and Bake" I view them as a chance for me to creatively screw
>up. That and they give me a chance to concentrate on making the final
>product look right without having to spend as much time correcting to avoid
>it looking like a ridiculous parody of the intended subject.
>
>Mark Shannon
>shingend at ix.netcom.com
>
>
>
> > [Original Message]
> > From: sperry 
> > To: World War I Modeling Mailing List 
> > Date: 6/2/2006 6:16:40 AM
> > Subject: Re: [WWI] Building the old kits
> >
> >
> > > Rick
> > >
> > > >Thank God I have the ability to make even the MOST fall together kit 
>on
> > the
> > > >market into a major construction project! Not superdetailing, just
> > screwing
> > > >things up :-)
> > >
> > > LOL - I take your point :-)
> > >
> > > I reckon I have a fair record of screwups myself, both on "easy" and
> > "hard"
> > > models - mainly suffer from the dropsies, but not immune from the
>"squeeze
> > > the glue bottle *harder*", the "pick up the wrong bottle/can" and 
>other
> > > howlers.
> > >
> > > Shane
> >
> > One day I'll spend less time fixing screwups than I spend building.
> > Unfortunately the high number of time eating mistakes seems to translate
> > directly into R/C . I rigged the right celule of my Hanriot 3 times last
> > night and broke the U/C once in the process.
> >
> > OTOH, I always violate a major rule and model without adult
>supervision....
> > sp
> >
>
>
>




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