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OSPREY MASTERCLASS
The essential guide for the serious modeller
AIRCRAFT MODELLING
BRETT GREEN
A complete guide to building and finishing Hundreds of colour photos Step-by-step instructions
Techniques for the expert Ideas for more creative modelling Create realistic & eye-catching models
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OSPREY MASTERCLASS
Aircraft Modelling
Brett Green
Series editor
Marcus Cowper
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First published in 2010 by Osprey Publishing
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Editor’s note
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Acknowledgements
I am delighted to be able to present Roy Sutherland’s
beautiful 1/48-scale Spitfire Mk 24 in this new Osprey
Masterclass title.
Thanks to Mick Evans also, for his very attractive
full-sized resin gunsight and control column models
in the Messerschmitt Bf 109 chapter.
I am very grateful to Eduard, MPM, Tamiya, Tail
Boom, Afterburner Decals, Red Roo Models and
J.B Wholesalers for the many of the kit, accessory
and decal products used between these covers.
Dr Charles E. Metz came through again with some
useful suggestions about references for this project.
Rodger Kelly took the wonderful in-action photos of
the Royal Maces F/A-18 Super Hornets aboard
Kitty
Hawk
on her last cruise in 2008. Thanks Rodger.
And last but certainly not least, thanks to my wife
Debbie and our children, Charlotte and Sebastian,
for their continuing indulgence.
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CONTENTS
Introduction
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Building a state-of-the-art injection-
moulded kit straight from the box
Building a new generation limited-run kit
Working with resin conversions
Improving a simple snap-together kit
Working with large-scale resin kits
Building a current generation long-run injection-
moulded kit
Upgrading an older kit with resin cockpit and
wing fold
Converting a model kit the old-fashioned way
Kitbashing two mediocre kits for a better result
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6
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42
55
75
80
90
99
119
133
Chapter 10 Improving detail on an accurate injection-moulded
plastic kit
Chapter 11 Upgrade and conversion using resin and photo-etch 150
Chapter 12 Adding detail to an older kit
Chapter 13 Sources and references
Index
174
187
188
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I
NTRODUCTION
I
NTRODUCTION
B
uilding scale model aircraft
is an absorbing pastime that
can encompass a broad range of
interests and skills. A proficiently
wrought scale model can evoke
a period in history, or represent
an attractive addition to
the mantelpiece.
Despite competition from
hi-tech leisure pursuits and the
spiralling cost of mainstream
manufacturing, the hobby of scale
aircraft modelling has reached a
pinnacle of variety and quality.
Thanks to new short-run plastic
injection-moulding technologies
and the superiority of resin details,
modellers in the 21st century
can build an impressive replica
of almost any military aircraft
that ever flew.
With the emergence of the
Internet, we have access to
technical and historical resources
that earlier generations could only
dream of. The Internet also puts
us in real-time contact with other
modellers and historians across
the globe. There has never been a
better time to build plastic models.
It would appear that there is a
new modelling sunrise in the east –
both Eastern Europe and Asia.
Eastern Europe, and the Czech
Republic in particular, has long
been a rich source of limited-run
kits and aftermarket accessories for
desirable, rare and esoteric aircraft
subjects. From the years before the
fall of the Iron Curtain, companies
such as MPM and Eduard
produced kits in vacform, resin and
low-pressure injection-moulded
plastic. Back in the 20th century,
most of these kits were pretty
challenging to build and quite basic
in their presentation, leaving the
addition of detail parts up to
the modeller. Today, we are hard
pressed to pick out the products
of these companies from those
of some long-established model
companies from the west. This is a
genuinely new category of plastic
models – no longer the rough
representations of past years.
What this new generation of
limited-run models lacks in terms
of locating pins, they more than
make up for with the provision
of resin and photo-etched detail
parts, high-quality markings and
previously unavailable subjects.
Some proficiency is still required,
but these kits are not beyond
the skill of the moderately
experienced modeller.
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