Any advice for displaying your plane with the flaps down??
Hiya Brandon,
I guess its all in how I feel on displaying my build…!! However, it also depends on how the kit is manufactured, flaps molded in the up position or if they give you the option.
If the above opition(s) are presented and as a modeller, how much work do you want to put into your build…!!
What it all boils down to is how you feel and what you want out of your build. Make sense??
Flaps up, Mike
Several kits give you the option of flaps up or down. Those that don’t you have to modify yourself. I build em both ways.
Regards, Rick
Be sure you check your references for the full scale bird. Different ones had different styles of flaps. The “split” flaps of a P-40, T-6 or DC-3 were just the bottom half of the flap that dropped down about 30 degrees. “Full” flaps such as a P-51, P-47 etc the entire flap pivoted down at the hinge line. “Fowler” flaps such as a P-38 or most modern airliners move back a bunch as well as angling down. [alien]
Well, i’m working on a B-25J and i was considering cutting the flaps off and leaving them down, but i think i’m just going to leave the flaps in the up position
Hi Brandon,
A while back, I experimented with displaying a plane as if it’s almost ready to touch down; flaps down and prop blurred, along with blurred runway numbers.
I used a small piece of stiff wire through the tail into the display base, and it made a fairly convincing display, staging the wheels a few scale inches above the runway surface.
It’s fun, and offers something other than a static scene.
Take care,
Frank
I built the sea Vixen I’ve been going on about for a year with flaps down as I wanted to display it on the catapault about to launch. It took around a year to eventually find reference for the flap bay detail which turned out to be very complex and had to be scratch built. the moral of that story is choose your subject carefully.