Balsa Molding Techniques

In this DVD, you will learn the skills required to easily make a large variety of perfect molded balsa parts from master modelers, Bob Hunt and Bill Werwage. Whether you are an Radio Control, Control Line, or Free Flight modeler, the skills learned in this DVD will enable you to produce lighter, stronger and more accurate models. The techniques are easy to learn, and are repeatable!

Nothing in the aeromodeling world is more beautiful than a Japanese Tissue covered Freeflight model. Now you can learn the techniques required to achieve expert results from one of the world’s most experienced and successful Freeflight modelers, Larry Kruse.
In this DVD, Larry explains the types of Japanese Tissues that are available, shows us how to make helpful trimming tools, and then takes us step-by-step through three popular methods of applying the tissue to a Freeflight model.

In How to Paint Pilot Figures you will learn how to choose, mix and properly apply modeling paints to produce extremely life-like skin tones, startlingly realistic eyes, brows, lips, hair and other features. You will also learn how to detail pilot garb, make self-portraits, paint female pilot figures and how to mount pilots - for correct posture - in your model. Don shows all of this and more, as he paints three different pilots - in close-up detail - right before your eyes.

When Bill Werwage first saw Stunt models built around this concept, he was 11 years old, but the effect they had on him was to remain with him for the next 40 plus years. He was so intrigued by this type of construction that he began closely studying the I Beam models that would show up at contests.

In 1968, Bob Hunt began experimenting with foam wing cutting and liked the inherent and easy-to-achieve accuracy that a properly cut and covered foam wing virtually assured. He didn't like the weight of the foam wing, however, with all the excess sheeting and glue that was required.
He devised a system in which the foam wing blanks are marked for desired rib positions for a built-up wing, prior to being cut into a wing shape. Once the core was cut, the rib positions could be marked accurately onto it and labeled, and they could also be marked and labeled in the lower cradle section.
The core could then be cut up into extremely accurate rib stations to be used as templates for generating equally accurate balsa ribs. An absolutely perfect built-up representation of the original foam core shape could then be assembled in the lower cradle half, which was now a form-fitting building fixture.

Straight, accurately built models fly better! No surprise there, but the steps to take to achieve a perfectly aligned airframe can seem mysterious at best. In the new DVD series Absolute Accuracy, from Robin?s View Productions, you will watch master modeling craftsman, Bob Noll perform many critical building tasks in screen-filling, close-up detail.

In this DVD, Master Modeler, Bob Noll takes you step-by-step through the mounting of a YS 1.20 four-stroke engine in a fiberglass fuselage pattern model. He uses the popular Hyde Custom Soft Mount system for this demonstration, but also explains how to correctly install two other mounts; the Dave Brown Products? VibraDamp and the Gator R/C Soft?N?Safe.

Master craftsman, and professional precision model builder, Bob Noll has built over a hundred foam wing models, and in this DVD he shares his incredible wealth of knowledge on the subject. Bob also shares with us many of the custom tools he has designed to make foam wing construction easier and more accurate. Included are dozens of useful building tips and more than 800 individual DVD clips depicting the action in up-close screen-filling detail.

The ability to remove and adjust the stabilizer on your plane offers many advantages. First and foremost among these advantages is the capability of adjusting the stabilizer’s incidence angle to infinitely fine-tune its flight trim. Many potentially fine flying models have been scrapped because this simple adjustment was not available.