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    A VICKERS WELLINGTON bomber joins the fleet.

    This 60 inch Vickers Wellington orphan has joined my fleet and the model is 27 years old but has never flown,it will be shortly fitted with updated Outrunner motors and lipo battery power then will take to the air. The model was kindly donated to my collection of historic flying scale aircraft...
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    Build-Along-With Wonwing from start to finish-The Aerographics Velie Monocoupe 113

    First we commence to build one fuselage frame pinned down to a soft balsa wood building board which was made many years ago,since then many models have been successfully built on this board,pin around the wood rather than through it working slowly and cleanly,allow this initial side to dry out...
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    Build-Along-With Wonwing from start to finish-The Aerographics Velie Monocoupe 113

    This delightful little aeroplane is called the Velie Monocoupe 113 it was designed around 1928 in America,the kit comes from the Aerographics range and is my next build subject to share with you,firstly lets take a look at whats in the box and lift the lid. Good quality balsa,parts are on...
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    Build-Along-With Wonwing-The West Wings ARIES biplane.

    Some stills from the video of the ARIES maiden test hop.
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    Build-Along-With Wonwing-The West Wings ARIES biplane.

    She flies ! first maiden test hop of the Aries in the garden with 20x winds on the rubber motor.
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    Restoring a vintage MILES MAGISTER-Restore-A-Long with Wonwing.

    This Miles Magister is over 69 years old,it was built from a plan published in the 'Aeromodeller' magazine,the model has undergone many house moves and upheavals and has up to now been stored in the rafters of my shed,now it will receive a restoration to bring it to flying condition...
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    Build-Along-With Wonwing-The West Wings ARIES biplane.

    We are now getting to the covering and assembly stage and out comes the tissue,the fuselage is covered in best quality Osaki tissue and the upper surfaces orange Osaki,the lower wings are covered with the standard kit white tissue the idea was to see if the orange looks brighter from the upper...
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    Build-Along-With Wonwing-The West Wings ARIES biplane.

    And so the wings get joined at their centre sections. Three quarter of an inch blocks are placed under each wingtip and the wings glued to the pre built centre sections,tailplane in the foreground all shaped and sanded. Everything is pinned down to avoid movement whilst drying. The...
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    Build-Along-With Wonwing-The West Wings ARIES biplane.

    Yes these type of models are not for the feint hearted,here is my recent Fw.190 made from an old 'Aeromodeller' magazine plan circa 1944.Waiting for decent weather to test fly her.
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    Flying the AVIOS Lockheed C-130 HERCULES-Trimming and flying notes by Wonwing.

    This impressive four engined radio model was introduced by AVIOS making its debut in Australia around 2 years ago,after a delayed start in making these available we managed to get hold of one in the very attractive 'Blue Angels' scheme,the first attempts to fly her the aircraft never got to the...
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    Build-Along-With Wonwing-The West Wings ARIES biplane.

    And onto the flying surfaces. The stripwood is sorted out and the excellent die cut ribs pushed from the sheet balsa,the trailing edges are marked and notched to take the ribs. Two wing panels and the tailplane underway,remembering to angle the inboard ribs for the dihedral angle where...
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    Build-Along-With Wonwing-The West Wings ARIES biplane.

    And so this little biplane that holds so much character starts to take shape. The to sides are carefully pulled in at the nose and tail with the use of small clamps,masking tape and pins,eyeball from above and make sure everything is symetrical,allow to dry out before proceeding. Now the...
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    Model building masterclass-Building a Slingsby T-21 Training glider from scrap materials.

    Make a paper template first of the fuselage side view and plan view,carefully attach the template to the block of foam with silk pins and draw around the template,when the wind dies down outside I will show you how to cut the sides from the block,to do it at the moment would create a snowstorm...
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    Model building masterclass-Building a Slingsby T-21 Training glider from scrap materials.

    Model building masterclass-Building a Slingsby T-21 Training glider from scrap materials. You do not need to buy expensive materials to build models,if you look around at what is thrown out everyday you will be amazed at what it can be recycled into,in this ad hoc series I will be showing you...
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    Build-Along-With Wonwing-The West Wings ARIES biplane.

    The two sides are built one on top of the other with a thin membrane of clear plastic sheet keeping them from sticking together,then two main formers are squared up and the fuselage is joined. Cellophane gift sheeting makes ideal separation material. The pins are placed around the wood...
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    Build-Along-With Wonwing-The West Wings ARIES biplane.

    This attractive little biplane caught my eye,it was made by West Wings and although their kits are no longer made they can still be picked up on occasions,this one is very well die cut with sharp rather than the usual blunt tooling used on many other kits which makes them die crushed ! A start...
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    Build-Along-With Wonwing-The Westwings Beguine.

    And in U.S Army colours today looking like a Grasshopper.
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    Build-Along-With Wonwing-The Westwings Beguine.

    Real model aeroplane dope used on this,technique is to allow it to flow on and settle out.
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    Build-Along-With Wonwing-The Westwings Beguine.

    Part 2 as lots of pictures. I decided to fit fairings to the undercarriage legs to stiffen them up. Sitting pretty on her modified legs,spackling added to nose area after a good carving and sanding took place. Spackling sanded smooth and the whole lot given a coat of De Luxe materials...
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    Build-Along-With Wonwing-The Westwings Beguine.

    Lots of covering,carving and finishing going on,details under each picture. The starboard side is Litespan which was a disaster after carefully smoothing the surface down and pulling taught I applied the iron,it took ages to get the wrinkles out so I abandoned the litespan and went over to my...

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