fsm201
fsm201

Aug 2016 No.201

4 CONTACT
Just for starters
6 COUNTERWISE
New products for scale modellers
FULLSIZE FREE PLAN FEATURE
10 GENERAL WESTERN METEOR
30″ wingspan for electric power designed by Peter Rake,
16 MITSUBISH A6M ZERO
Alex Whittaker examines Steve Foxon’s take on the definitive
Japanese warbird
22 DUMMY SCALE AXIAL WW 1 PROP
Paul Blakeborough traces the step-by-step technique of
replicatining one of those WW1 laminated propellers for static
scale model display
28 SUBJECTS FOR SCALE
DOUGLAS A-20 BOSTON/HAVOC
Designed when the lean inter-war years of slow military aircraft
development were ending, this Douglas attack aircraft filled an
urgent need when war came in 1939
34 DOUGLAS BOSTON/HAVOC
SCALE DRAWING
1:80 super-detailed drawings by Arthur L. Bentley
38 BOSTON/HAVOC FLYING COLOURS
US, British, Comonwealth, French and Russian warpaint
42 MAILED FIST FIGHTER
Build Jeff Hartnoll’s 1/5th true-scale, 78.7″ (2000mm) wingspan
model of the RAF’s last open cockpit fighter biplane. Suits 2 –
2.4 cu.in. four-stroke engines (Part 1)
50 FREE FLIGHT SCALE NATIONALS
Alex Whittaker is dazzled by the sheer variety of models at this
year’s late-May Holiday event
56 SCALE SOARING
Chris Williams finds a feast of fine scale gliders of many kinds
on the event curcuit
60 TECHNO SCALE
Mike Evatt finds more flying scale web sites to click on
62 QUIET ZONE
Spare the power loading! Peter Rake advises sensible motor
sizes for small lightweight electrics

Price: £4.20