Clean up the casting.





Glue on the bottom wing checking for squareness.





Glue the cabine struts to the top wing.





Drill out the wings for struts.
Place the supplied jigs on the wings along with two temporary struts to align the setup.





Glue the cabine struts to the fuselage.





Strut the wings and glue into place.





Fill and sand any blemishes left by the struts.
Drill the peg hole.
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Building the Red Eagle Staaken.





Red Eagle have included a comprehensive construction list with this model. However I decided to add my own method of building this behemoth as the addition of cammo decals requires a slightly different approach to the build.

Clean up the casting



Open up the holes for parts with a number 62 drill.



Attach lower wing to fuselage.



Attach lower tail plane to tail.







Spray body of plane with undercoat.



Lightly wash body of plane in light blue watered down paint.
Then finish paint body of plane and details.





Cut out the Cammo decals.
Apply cammo decals to upper side of lower wing ...

1. Clean off the flash

1. Make a copy of the wing jigs. Two glued together make a much firmer jig.

1. Cut out the wing jigs.

1. Drill all holes.
   
   
   
2. Glue on the lower wing. Ensure accuracy and angle to the body is 90 degrees.

1. Drill hole for the flight peg.

1. Fit wing jigs and top wing to the lower wing.

1. From a

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The Ansaldo AI.








Clean up and fettle the parts.





Drill the hole for the Flight peg.





Using paper clips, rather than the soft lead struts provided, bend into shape the under cart support struts and the cabine struts.






Drill out all the holes for the struts and try them for fit.
Fit and glue the cabine struts, using the top wing as a template to ensure they are vertical.

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Apart from the lack of a propeller this is another straight forward build suitable for a beginner.



Clean up the castings.
Drill through the prop boss to fit prop (Not supplied with this kit).




Make prop in two halves from plasticard.
Clear out holes for cabine struts, and wing struts.
Glue in cabine struts. Make ...

Although I am now getting used to the fine lines of the SRAM range, I’m afraid that I still have an engineer’s mentality at heart. Consequently, I beefed this one up just like my Pom with new wings and steel paperclip struts.
Mark out the wings with the official ones for templates, and cut out with a craft knife.



Shape and finish the wings with a needle file and fine wet and dry paper.




Position the engine and glue in place.




Glue in the pilot’s seat.



Drill out the prop boss and glue in a pin for the prop shaft.
Assemble the floats by drilling holes for the cross struts and glue into place.



Drill the holes in floats and fuselage for the support struts. ( A card template may help to get the compound angles correct.) ...

Fettle up the castings, and then make paper templates for the cammo decals. Use these to cut the decals from the printed sheets.

Drill any holes that are not opened up.
Fix the lower wing.
Unlike most of my builds I now undercoated the components before assembly to facilitate the addition of the cammo decals.




Give a thin wash of white acrylic to the parts which are to receive cammo. This helps ...

This one needed very little cleaning up but did have a fault with the shape of the bottom wing which I remedied by producing a new one in plasticard from a scale drawing.


Clean up cast lines on metal parts.
Clear out all holes with a No 62 drill or similar.
Shape new bottom wing.




Glue on bottom wing.
Position struts and glue in using top wing as a jig.



Cut locating dowels on top outboard ...

This is another easy one, for the beginner.

Clean up the casting.
Open up all holes until the struts will slip in easily.



Fit the struts in pairs, and glue to lower wing. Use the upper wing placed on top to align them.
Glue the cabine struts to the top wing.
Marry up the top and bottom wings and glue struts and cabines to the opposing parts. ...

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  In deference to several requests about building an easy aircraft for beginners, I give you the BE2c.
  It will also fill a niche in the upcoming series 5 release. This is yet another offering from Skytrex.
  
  
  
  1. Fettle the casting and if required make an extension to the rudder.

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Here is the sequence in which I built My Skytrex Handley Page Bomber.

1. Clean up parts. Use a fine Swiss or needle file for the plastic.
2. Wash plastic parts in detergent.
3. Allow to air dry.
4. Drill the location holes in body and wings. I used a No 62 drill.
5. Trial assemble wings.



6, Glue bottom wing ensuring distance on both sides are =.
7. Use the center struts and wing struts to ensure the above, by popping ...

This is again a fairly simple aircraft build with only one diversion from my usual method.




Clean up the casting.
Glue the cabine struts to the upper wing.



Position the main struts temporally and use to position the upper wing.
Glue the cabine struts to the fuselage. They should be at right angles ...

SOPWITH PUP.

This is an easy one for a beginner to have a go at.



Clean up the castings.
Glue the four outer wing struts to the lower wing. Use the upper wing as a template to align them.
When dry assemble the cabine struts in the same manner.



Once these are dry, place the top wing on and glue.
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Building Hawker’s Bristol Scout.

This would be a good build for a novice.




Clean up the casting.
Clean out the strut holes with a suitable drill.
Position wings and struts.



This time I used wire pins for cabine struts to strengthen the wings.



Pop in the pins for cabine struts.
I removed ...

Clean up the casting.
Drill all holes to clear out burrs including the prop boss.
Temporarily affix the under wing.
Spray all parts white with primer.



Remove wing.
Over paint all parts which will have decals with a thin white wash of acrylic paint.Several coats may be needed to cover fully.



Cut out decals to the outline.



Paint all the coloured parts of the plane.
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I decided that as it stood this aircraft was just too fragile to use in games. I therefore replaced the wings and tail section in Plasticard, the undercart with a spare Reviresco one, and the prop was kindly supplied by Angela at Skytrex. Pilot is also Reviresco and gunner Peter Pig. Thus we have a fully Allied combination of parts.
Clean off the resin flash.



Draw up the new wings using the old ones as a template.



File the wings to shape.



Drill the wings as a pair for the strut holes.



Cut the struts to length using the elevation drawing supplied ...

This is a tricky little build due to having to bend the engine and cabine struts to size before assembly of the wings.





Clean up the flash on the casting.
Bend the cabine struts to fit the engine as per supplied diagram.(NB. They are handed so beware.)
Glue to engine with crank handle forward, and the sloped cabine struts also pointing forward.



Test fit the engine mounts to both wings and glue to engine but not the wings yet.








Glue bottom wing to fuselage. ...

Building the Gotha.
This is the next of the Giants that I have tackled thus far.
Because of some differences in detail I adopted a slightly different build plan from the Handley Page.


1. Clean up the casting.

2. Drill the strut holes. N.B. The cabine struts need smaller diameter holes. (Watch out for unneeded holes, and what I perceive to be wrong uns, over the engines. ...

The Kit from Reverisco is part cardstock and part metal to economise on weight. I decided to construct the card fuselage and then use it as a pattern to make it in nylon with plasticard wings.
When it arrived it came with scale elevations in colour, so my construction was made much easier than I envisaged it would be.
So here is my construction method. Don’t try this at home folks.




Clean up the castings.
Cut out the card body and wings to use as templates.
Photocopy the templates.
Assemble the rear card fuselage.
Mark out the wings onto plasticard.



Mark out the rear fuselage onto the nylon I found in a tea chest 20 years ago.(This is not obligatory. Any suitable soft plastic is preferable.) ...