The last time you saw Bob Benjamin’s Master’s Workshop it was part of FLY RC Magazine and this home page had a different look. As most of you probably know by now, FLY RC is gone. I spent the better part of a year working behind the scenes with the handful of creative people, writing […]
In the review of the Sig Dornier DO 217 kit that I posted a while back, I explained that I was going to depart from what the instructions told me to do when it came to covering (and finishing) the model and use traditional dope-and-silkspan materials in place of the plastic film that’s recommended. I said […]
It’s been a while since I have done any work that counts on this airplane…in fact, I have to confess that I’ve been letting it gather dust in my shop for about a year. I set the Stinson aside to work on the old FlyLine Great Lakes Trainer kit. That project turned into a twenty-nine-installment […]
FOR DIRECT ACCESS TO ALL OF MY BLOG ENTRIES ON THIS (OR ANY OTHER) PROJECT, GO TO THE ARCHIVES TAB PARTWAY DOWN MY HOME PAGE AND CLICK THE APPROPRIATE SUBJECT UNDER CATEGORIES. When do we get to the good part? For me that’s a hard call, because they’re all the good parts. Covering, however, is […]
OK…now it’s time to get started on something that will make it clear just how BIG this model really is…let’s build the wing. As it turns out, even if my workbench were long enough to lay out both the right and left panels of the wing at the same time, I would have to walk […]
I have already let on that I am a pushover for the real old time kits, the stick-and-tissue jobs that those of us who were kids during the ’40’s and 50’s learned to build with. In those days, even if you knew what you were doing, your only options were to preserve the plane as […]