Why do we need homemade copy aircraft in the age of prefabricated models

2024 Author: Sierra Becker | [email protected]. Last modified: 2024-02-26 03:47

The whole industry is engaged in the production of prefabricated models. Companies all over the world manufacture bonding kits from high or low pressure polyester. Japanese and German, Chinese and Russian, Italian and Ukrainian firms every year throw on the market more and more large-scale copies of tanks, cars and aircraft. It can be incomprehensible to uninitiated people why home-made aircraft are needed when there are prefabricated models and even ready-made mock-ups of very good quality. But still, there are times when a person who is passionate about modeling, most often, a collector wants to get such a copy, which no manufacturer does. Usually this desire arises from experienced modellers who have such skills that allow them to “pile” a very rare thing.

Needless to say, a wide variety of technical and artistic skills are required to realize such a dream. You need to be able to read blueprints, be proficient with locksmith and turning tools, and sometimes machine tools, and be fluent with an airbrush and brushes. But even this is not the main thing, all skills are acquired, butlove for technology, such as aviation, is the main incentive for their development.

Homemade model airplanes - this is the aerobatics of mock-up art.

If an amateur sets himself the task of building a copy of an old biplane or triplane, then the first thing he undertakes is the construction of its supporting frame. Frames, spars and ailerons are assembled in compliance with all similarity criteria, while a wide variety of materials can be used - from metal wire to wood, plywood and veneer.

Homemade aircraft, like real ones, require patience and delicacy in all operations. Particular care is required when making the dashboard, pilot's seat and controls. Materials must completely imitate the surface of the skin and matter. For example, to create a fabric texture, … toilet paper is used. It fits well on the desired areas and is easy to paint, while maintaining a naturalistic roughness, and if necessary, you can form folds on it.

A modeler takes on a homemade aircraft for the first time, usually not because of a good life, but simply because of the lack of the initial set, but then, getting used to it, he acquires various useful equipment, up to a small lathe - and then he can no longer be stopped. After all, it is almost impossible to find such a modular model, which has folding wings, like a carrier-based attack aircraft from the Second World War, but you want to do just that!

It may be very interesting to look home-made aircraft-copies of aircraft from the First World War. Their design is full of braces, and the rudder rods were in sight. A special achievement will be following some historical prototype, for example, Nesterov's Nieuport-4 or Red Baron's Fokker. Consideration should also be given to such engineering features as open cylinders and other parts of the power plant, which simply have to look "alive".

High realism is given by holes, and peeling paint, and other signs of participation in air battles.

And, of course, homemade planes will be a wonderful decoration for the interior of both a child's room and a private office.