Sept 2015 No.190
4 CONTACT
Just for starters
FULL SIZE FREE PLAN FEATURE
6 ROSE PARAKEET PART 2
A 1/6 scale, 40 inch (1,016 mm) wingspan scale model.
Designed for electric power designed by Peter Rake
10 ABC ROBIN
A 56″ (1422mm) wingspan 1:5.5 scale model of a 1920s
lightweight single-seater designed by the late David Boddington,
for four function R/C and .25 – .40 size engines.
18 ABC SCALE DRAWING
1:40 scale three-view
20 ABC ROBIN TYPE HISTORY
Designed for private recreational flying in the late 1920s, the
Robin failed to find a mass market. Its single seat configuration
may have been a reason.
24 MASTER MODELS: SUPERMARINE S6B
Alex Whittaker is invited to a private viewing of a very special
flying scale model
30 TECHNO SCALE
Mike Evatt enters webspace for more TechnoScale Topics…
32 S6B TYPE HISTORY
Last of the British Schneider trophy racers of 1929 and 1931 fth
their rolls royce engines were a technical prelude to a far more
deadly race a little less that a decade later.
34 S6B SCALE DRAWING
1:40 scale three-view drawing
38 LOCKHEED SIRIUS
A Golden Era scale floatplane, sleek and beautiful,
immortalised by Charles Lindbergh. Designed and built by Ken
Marsh.
46 Sopwith DOLPHIN IN DETAIL
Close-up detail photo-study of the example at the RAF
Museum, Hendon
52 SCALE FROM SCRATCH: PART 7
Fuselage planking and motor management,
and A practical EP/IC motor control system
56 PARK WESTON SCALE 2015
Bigger, better and even more fun!
62 QUIET ZONE
More detail technique, this time concentrating on replicating
metal clad fuselage nose sections and plywood grain skin
panels
