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Aircraft Workshop: Learn To Make Models That Fly (Learn to Make Models)
 
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Aircraft Workshop: Learn To Make Models That Fly (Learn to Make Models) [Paperback]

Kelvin Shacklock (Author)
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Learn to Make Models August 11, 2000
Covering everything from basic principles to making your first flying model, through to advanced scale construction models, this volume is fully illustrated with over 200 scaled plans and drawings.

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Product Details

  • Paperback: 264 pages
  • Publisher: Trans-Atlantic Publications, Inc.; 1 edition (August 11, 2000)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1854862162
  • ISBN-13: 978-1854862167
  • Product Dimensions: 11.6 x 8.2 x 0.6 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #477,131 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

 

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5.0 out of 5 stars THE BEST BOOK, August 23, 2003
This review is from: Aircraft Workshop: Learn To Make Models That Fly (Learn to Make Models) (Paperback)
This is indeed the best book I have found todate on building R/C aircraft models. This targets intelligent beginers and takes them through a progression of increasingly complex models , culminating in a scale spitfire. Unlike most other books this book is information rich and not an advertisment for specific R/C products or the great skills and models of the authors buddies. It does a good job pedagogicall in making the reader think and develop his own skills and ingenuity in the process.
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Highly recommended for the aspiring builder, July 23, 2008
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This review is from: Aircraft Workshop: Learn To Make Models That Fly (Learn to Make Models) (Paperback)
If you are a beginner or have little experience:
Step 1: Choose if you want to fly model R/C planes, or build them or do both.
Step 2: If you want to fly only, then buy a foam trainer, learn and then move up the foam route. With the low cost of these models nowadays, you can have a lot of fun and reduce the pain of the fly/crash/repair sequence.
Step 3: If you want to learn a little more, add another dimension to your skills and enjoy building, then buy this book and work your way through it. It is one of the best I have seen after much reading and modelling over the last 45 years. It is the equivalent of plans plus detailed building instructions for a logical sequence of models. Almost a complete training course in building. A bit like the "Joy of Cooking" for modellers!
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Superb book for almost all RC model aircraft builders, December 18, 2000
This review is from: Aircraft Workshop: Learn To Make Models That Fly (Learn to Make Models) (Paperback)
This book really shows you page by page how to get the job done. Kelvin Shacklock starts with the basics and takes you page by page through the construction of yet more advanced RC models, finally showing how to build a 1/5 scale Spitfire explaining the different processes as you go. The book is full of illustrations and photographs, so it is very easy to understand the explanations within the text. Personally I read the book while constructing the models using it more as a manual than a theory book. The drawings for the RC models are printed within the book, but I will recommend buying full scale drawings since it can be quite a difficult job enlarging the drawings correctly, although several methods to do so are explained within the book. I recommend this book to all beginners and people who have build a couple of aircrafts and wants to learn some more good building tricks and guidelines. This is the best book on the subject I have read.
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