4 CONTACT
Just for starters
6 SPORT SCALE MASTERCLASS
Part 6: Scaling up from three-view drawings
14 FULL SIZE FREE PLAN
SOPWITH TRIPLANE
A truly international effort created this 45” wingspam electric
powered model deigned by the late Peter Rake, with test
models built by Robert Hossman in USA and Rodd Perrin in
Australia
24 Sopwith Triplane Type History
Manoeuvrability, rate of climb and maximum all-round visibility
have always been prime requisites for fighter aircraft. The
triplane configuration was Sopwith Aviation Company’s answer
in 1916
28 TRIPLANE IN DETAIL
The Northern Aero Works’ authentic replica is the subject of this
close-up study
32 TRIPLANE WARPAINT
Combat colour schemes
34 Sopwith triplane scale drawing
1:40 scale three-view
36 technoscale
Scale content web sites worth a browse
38 fairey gannet as 1
A 1/8th scale 81″ span (2057mm) sport scale model of the
Royal Navy’s last fixed wing Anti-Submarine Search aircraft for
1.08-1.20 cu.in. engines designed by MIKE LOVELL
46 fairey gannet type history
The Royal Navy’s last fixed-wing submarine hunter
54 gannet AS 1 scale draWING
1:40 Scale three-view
56 Gannet c0lour schemes
Fleet Air Arm, Royal Australian Navy, German Bundesmarine
and Indonesian military schemes
58 Fairey Gannet in detail
All the detail needed for top-notch surface detail
62 THE QUITE ZONE
The German Junkers Company adopted their corrugated metal
skin as a means of injecting strength and lightness into an
airframe as far back as 1915 – then ran with the concept right
up to the end of WW2.. BOB PARKER demonstrates a way to
reproduce that distinctive feature for scale models using
corrugated cardboard
