Detailing_Scale_Model_Aircraft.pdf

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

1. MODELING TIPS & TECHNIQUES

2. COCKPITS

3. ENGINES

THE FLIGHT LINE

4. LANDING GEAR

5. GUNS, FLYING WIRES, CONTROL

CABLES & ANTENNA WIRES

6. REMOVING & REATTACHING

KIT PARTS

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.

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