FSM-DEC-12-P01-COVER
FSM-DEC-12-P01-COVER

December 2012  No.157

4 CONTACT
Scale Models News
10 Soviet equaliser: LAVOCHKIN LA-7
Alex Whittaker tracks down Mick Burrell’s amazing
large scale Russian WWII fighter
18 MORANE SAULNIER RACER
Free plan feature.A small, 34” (863mm) wingspan
electric powered model designed by Peter Rake
24 NIEUPORT 28
A 65” (1651mm) wing span 1/5th scale WW1 warbird for
10cc (.61 cu.in engines, designed by the late Phil Smith.
30 NIEUPORT TYPE HISTORY
A French WW1 fighter never adopted by its
country of origin and forever associated with
U.S.A. military aviation. They made the best of
what they were given!
34 NIEUPORT SCALE DRAWING
1:40 scale fine-line three views
36 NIEUPORT FLYING COLOURS
Warpaint for the Nieuport 28
42 Hangar 9 TIGER MOTH
When you apply the ARTF accronym to this one, it really
is right, as ANDY WARD reports after testing this
accurate, near-quarter scale kit
50 free flight SCALE NATS
Alex Whittaker avoided the showers to record this great
outdoor scale event for posterity
56 control that TAKE-OFF SWING
Here we go again! Left rudder, more right rudder, not
enough left rudder – thump!
62 THE QUIET ZONE
How to reproduce plastic moulded surface louvres and
other surface details without recourse to vacuum forming

Price: £4.20