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Flying Scale Models Magazine Aug-14 Back Issue

View Reviews   |   Write Review Only £4.99 Flying Scale Models Magazine – Scale Aircraft in the Air

Brought to you by ADH Publishing Ltd, Europe’s Leading Hobby Publisher. .. read more

Launched in 1997, Flying Scale Models magazine is for builders and fliers of historic scale replicas of full size aircraft. Published monthly, there are regular, free full size scale model plans for aircraft from all eras of manned flight, together with a wide range of material on every aspect of scale model research, building and flying. There are also reports on commercial developments within the hobby with expert tests of all the latest products.

The magazine’s authoritative editorial reference and its technique based instructional material from a wide base of regular expert contributors; make Flying Scale Models a highly collectible reference journal.

Regular features include:

• All the latest news and events from the aeromodelling community both in the UK and worldwide
• Kit Reviews – detailed build-guides offering full insight into the best modelling techniques.
• Full reports and photographs from all the major events and shows
• Techno Modelling – The best of aeromodelling on the internet
• Letters and feedback on the hottest topics in aeromodelling from readers around the world
• Shelf Life - Reviews on the latest models and modelling products
• Plus regular special feature sections

And much, much more!

For more information, visit www.flyingscalemodels.com

PLEASE NOTE: the Free full size plans are not available digitally.  read less
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Flying Scale Models  |  Aug-14  


6 CONTACT
Just for openers
8 GREAT LAKES trainer
A 53.5” span electric powered model designed by Peter Rake,
with the prototype model built and described by Pat Lynch
12 GREAT LAKES SCALE DRAWING
1:60 scale three-view
14 RAFMAA 2014
Alex Whittaker attends the Royal Air Force Model Aircraft Association scale bash
22 TECHNO SCALE
Scale websites worth a look-up
24 SPITFIRE NINE
Malcolm Harle’s superb Mk.IX from the Mick Reeves kit
30 SPITFIRE TYPE HISTORY
Never intended to be anything other than a temporary
expedient to counter a specific threat, the Mk. .. read more IX was
evenyually produced in greater numbers than any other variant
in a series that eventually ran all the way to Mk.24
34 SPITFIRE MK.IX SCALE DRAWING
1:50 super-detailed fine-line three views
36 SPITFIRE MK.IX IN DETAIL
Pile on the details with the aid of our six-page close-up study
42 SPITFIRE FLYING COLOURS
Warpaint for the Spitfire Mk.IX
46 clipped wing piper CUB
A 1/6th scale (plus 5%) electric powered model of the
aerobatic version, designed by PHILLIP S. KENT
56 OFFICE HOURS
A guide to technique for cockpit detailing: PART 2
62 THE QUIET ZONE
Electric columnist and and designer extra-ordinaire Peter Rake
reveals his latest scale creations in the pipeline  read less
Flying Scale Models Magazine – Scale Aircraft in the Air

Brought to you by ADH Publishing Ltd, Europe’s Leading Hobby Publisher.

Launched in 1997, Flying Scale Models magazine is for builders and fliers of historic scale replicas of full size aircraft. Published monthly, there are regular, free full size scale model plans for aircraft from all eras of manned flight, together with a wide range of material on every aspect of scale model research, building and flying. There are also reports on commercial developments within the hobby with expert tests of all the latest products.

The magazine’s authoritative editorial reference and its technique based instructional material from a wide base of regular expert contributors; make Flying Scale Models a highly collectible reference journal.

Regular features include:

• All the latest news and events from the aeromodelling community both in the UK and worldwide
• Kit Reviews – detailed build-guides offering full insight into the best modelling techniques.
• Full reports and photographs from all the major events and shows
• Techno Modelling – The best of aeromodelling on the internet
• Letters and feedback on the hottest topics in aeromodelling from readers around the world
• Shelf Life - Reviews on the latest models and modelling products
• Plus regular special feature sections

And much, much more!

For more information, visit www.flyingscalemodels.com

PLEASE NOTE: the Free full size plans are not available digitally.
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Flying Scale Models

congratulations o the excellent content . It deserves huge readership Reviewed 10 September 2020
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Flying Scale Models

best magazine on the subject Reviewed 13 August 2020
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Flying Scale Models

Seems to have less content than before with little (and irregular) coverage for the scale glider pilot. Reviewed 11 May 2020

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