NOVEMBER 2016 NO.204
4 CONTACT
Just for starters
6 GUILD OF AVIATION ARTISTS
The best in Aviation Art
14 One ounce SOPWITH
With the indoor flying season now with us, test your building skills
at next-to-nothing cost with Mike Roach’s untra-lightweight
creation. Full size plan feature
20 DH 89 Dragon RAPIDE HISTORY
To compliment Chris Golds’ 1:9.6 scale, 60” wingspan, electric
powered construction feature presented last month, we wrap up
the Rapide story with this Type History, colour schemes and and
close-up detail photo study
24 Dragon RAPIDE COLOURS
Plenty of decor from which to choose!
26 RAPIDE IN DETAIL
Close-up study for piling on the detail
30 SUBJECT FOR SCALE:
Aeronca 11AC Chief ….and the aeronca story
Twenty years of uniterupted light aircraft design and production,
commenced back in that ‘Golden Aviation’ era, produced some
much loved personal ‘aerial carraiges’ that have become favouries
with scale modellers
34 AERONCA 11AC SCALE DRAWING
1:40 fine-line three views
36 AERONCA 11AC chief IN DETAIL
Close-up detail photo study
42 FOKKER E.V/D.VIII
Gary Sunderland presents his 1: 4 scale model of Fokker’s
ultimate WW1 fighter – for 1.20 – 1.55 cu.in four stroke motors
50 FOKKER fluing COLOURS
Warpaint for the Fokker E.V and D.VIII
52 FOKKER: The machine and
the MEN WHO FLEW THEM
Compromised, initially, by sub-standard construction, Fokker’s last
WW1 monoplane arrived too late to make a difference
54 FOKKER D.VIII IN DETAIL
close-up study of the Fokker D.VIII hosued at the Fantasy of
Flight museum in Florida, USA.
58 OLD WARDEN scale weekend
The very best for a long time!
64 TECHNO SCALE
Web site review
