Oct 2014  No.179
6 CONTACT
News and new products
8 WORLD scale CHAMPS PREVIEW
First news from the 2014 contest held in France July 19-26th
FULL-SIZE FREE PLAN FEATURE
10 GREAT LAKES PART 3
Concluding the construction, finishing and flying of Peter
Rake’s 53.5†(1360mm) wingspan, electric powered 1930s era
classic biplane
14 COSFORD 2014
Large Model Association’s flagship annual event
20 freewing Messerschmitt ME 262
All-foam, virtually reay-to-go kit with a spectacular
performance on twin electric ducted fan power
24 ME262 TYPE HISTORY
Some say it could have changed the course of WW2 – at least
in the air war. Whether that’s so is questionable, but it was
certainly a great technological achievement
30 ME262 IN DETAIL
Messerschmitt’s Swallow in close-up
34 ME262 SCALE DRAWING
1:60 fine-line three-views
36 ME262 FLYING COLOURS
Warpaint crried by the Schwalbe (Swallow) fighter and the
Sturmvogel (Stormbird) bomber.
40 Cuban SEA FURY
Graham Buchanan’s stunning new Hawker Sea Fury in Cuban
combat colours
46 SEA FURY FLYING COLOURS
Richard Carunana warpaint studies for Hawker’s finest
52 PANELLING in paper
How to achieve realistic airframe surface panelling, rivet lining
and weathering
56 HANDLEY PAGE O/400
The Editor looks at Roger Godley’s 1/10th WW1 heavy
bomber, fresh out of a long hibernation
62 THE QUIET ZONE
Some clever techniques from the workshop of Jonathan Rider
